Siggraph combines an Academic Conference, with Science Fair experiments, trade show, art fair, and animation festival. It’s a select bunch, people who love computer graphics and in the past decade, the show has been dominated by the film industry. Lately, we’ve been seeing a lot of buzz at Siggraph for virtual production. However, where the interest has primarily been rendering, … Read more
The Corona Renderer developed by Chaos Czech is a leading renderer for architectural visualization. Image by Jesus Selvera. (Source: Corona Group) In the world of Chaos, one press release is never enough. No, the company sends them out like little soldiers one after the other. Most recently, Chaos Czech, formerly the Render Legion group which was acquired by Chaos … Read more
What’s more fundamental to the act of making a movie than the camera? It’s the camera that defines a movie and separates it from a play and as camera technology has changed over the years, they’ve changed the art of movies. When first used to make movies, cameras were fixed—they were giant things that stayed put and captured longish takes … Read more
There was a time when the definition of a workstation was crystal clear and so was the decision about having one. If you needed a workstation, you knew who you were and you knew how to get it: ask IT. Alternatively, whine, bully, and demand it from IT. And, the machine you got would have a RISC-based processor, a customized … Read more
Deep fakes have got the world creeped out. Photo manipulation techniques joined with AI are enabling people to create very convincing, very fake images and videos. The authenticity of audio is also up for grabs, and in fact in this paper, “Text Based Editing on Talking Head Videos,” researchers demonstrate a technique for editing a speaker in a video by … Read more
There was a time when game engines were built specifically for certain games and many companies believed the quality of their game engines defined the quality of their technologies. As the game industry has matured with thousands and thousands of games developed and played, and franchises established, the three leading commercial game engines, Unreal, Unity, and Crytek have become tested … Read more
Dassault Systemes may have started as a CAD/PLM company, but it is morphing into something else entirely. The company has announced plans to buy Medidata, a health care company that provides a cloud-based platform to for clinical trials. In order to manage the deal, Dassault will put together a cash package of approximately $5.8 billion in order to pay $92.25 … Read more
PTC’s new headquarters on the Boston waterfront is in the heart of Boston’s building boom and designed to be a magnet for talent in PTC’s fast-growing IoT and AR business. (Source: JPR) PTC is building on gains made and lessons learned. CEO Jim Heppelmann was a keynote speaker at the AWE AR conference in May and followed up a … Read more
Nvidia’s Executive VP Jeff Fisher delivered Nvidia’s message to Computex this year and gave a short lesson in building markets using the Red Ocean Blue Ocean market strategy defined by W. Chan Kim & Renée Mauborgne. Blue Ocean strategy tells companies to create opportunity through differentiation and price and build where there are no competitors. Fisher says Nvidia’s development … Read more
Marvell has been active over the last 90 days. The company has acquired GlobalFoundries Avera business, which GlobalFoundries had acquired from IBM. And Marvell sold its WiFi and Bluetooth/BLE combo solutions portfolio to NXT for $1.76 billion. Marvell paid GloFo $650 million in cash and pledged to pay $90 more if certain business conditions are met within the next 15 … Read more
Lisa Su seems to like Computex and Computex evidently likes Lisa Su. This year, AMD was invited to be among the Computex’ keynote presentations, and Lisa Su snagged the all-important kick-off event. In this very interesting year with very interesting leaders. Taiwan is trying to ride out trade wars and maintain its dangerous dance with China, and somehow come out … Read more
The weather wasn’t the best, but they came to learn. Developers at Google I/O learned that security is the new cool. (Source: Google) It’s been clear for a long time that Google doesn’t see itself as the company that helps people find things. Not anymore, at Google I/O, Sundar Pichai told the audience that Google wants to be the … Read more
