An arms race is building in AI tools for design. Sites are adding on new tools, new features, and new capabilities. Adobe is offering its Express tool for fast design jobs. Upstarts Canva, Vista, and Dribble are upping the ante with a wealth of new tools.
Some vendors have one foot in and one foot out.
Don’t place your bets on AR/VR/XR quite yet, as that goal is far from reality, especially as players like Sony, Apple, Microsoft, HP, Meta, and HTC face bumps in the road.
Let’s try this again, but there are reasons to be optimistic.
Enabling professionals and indies to collaborate in place and across platforms.
The immersive cloud platform is now able to stream VR and XR content built in the two popular game engines, expanding the developer base.
In spite of growing disillusion with the SPAC strategy to goose the IPO market, Arogo and Eon Reality announce a deal worth $655 million. Eon lays out big plans in Istanbul.
Substance Modeler. (Source: Adobe) At Adobe Max 2022, Adobe came through on its promise to advance Adobe Substance 3D, its portfolio of 3D content creation tools, by releasing a series of key new features along with a brand-new 3D sculpting tool: Substance 3D Modeler. Also, at Max 2022, Adobe left clues, pointers, and demos to new capabilities including full-3D … Read more
Apple will see you now and the world around you
The metaverse is hot stuff right now, and there are big companies and big bucks chasing the idea. Apple’s CEO Tim Cook is not one of them. During a recent tour through Europe, Tim Cook said in an interview with Dutch news outlet Bright, that he sees more immediate opportunity in AR. He expressed interest in the ability of AR … Read more
MovieLabs is a non-profit industry organization founded in 2006 by Disney, Paramount, Twentieth Century Fox, Sony Pictures, Universal, and Warner Bros. to do advanced research and development. The organization came together to prepare for the digital tidal wave coming their way as film-based moviemaking started to give way to digital workflows and distribution. At that time, the organization was concerned … Read more
Avid CEO Jeff Rosica at IBC2022. (Source: IBC) IBC2022 stands as a significant milestone in the history of digital content creation. It comes as the latest wave of Covid infections have subsided and as people worldwide are going back to work. During the last three years, people have turned to remote working, and cloud-based video editing tools are accepted … Read more
