In June, Dassault announced the acquisition of No Magic, a company specializing in model-based systems engineering (MBSE). No Magic will become part of the Catia family of applications. No Magic’s tools are cloud based, and, as the name suggests, direct, logical, and easy to use, but it’s also a true MBSE tool in that it attempts to enable all methods … Read more
Why the hell not?
Magic Leap has launched its Lumin SDK, a plug-in for Unity and Uneal, after a long wait by developers wanting something/anything they can get to work on. It will allow developers to build AR experiences for the Magic Leap One headset, which finally manifested itself at the end of 2017, but has yet to fully materialize. Instead, developers will have … Read more
Microsoft is aggressively increasing its in house game development work and is adding five new game development teams through acquisition and is also founding a new development studio called the Initiative, which will be based in Santa Monica and led by Darrell Gallagher. Gallagher told Dean Takahashi in a VentureBeat interview just about nothing other than that his job is to … Read more
The Lenovo workstation group has shown a real knack for adding edge to their products. The Lenovo ThinkPad P52 line has already carved out a niche for a small, light, powerful workstation. The base model, starts at $1010.65 (Why 65 cents?) and is 4.39 lbs. and 0.79-inch thick. The more you can see, the more you can do: The latest … Read more
Unfortunately, they’re going to be stomping around a bit longer.
PTC’s LiveWorx conference is all about the Internet of Things and AR. It has grown out of the PTC acquisition of ThingWorx and the subsequent remaking of the company to put it in the middle of digital lifecycle of products. In January 2018, PTC and Microsoft announced a strategic alliance around the HoloLens, which would encourage the development of … Read more
The PTC conference kicked off this year with a show of strength and confidence. The company announced three major alliances this year and they highlight three different areas of focus for the company. The company is teaming with: Ansys, is known for its simulation technology especially FEA. Ansys has developed technology they call Discovery Live, which enables lightning … Read more
With its release of its latest AR platform last fall, Vuforia announced the addition of object recognition and ground plane detection, along with support for Apple’s ARKit and Google’s ARCore. Until relatively recently, targets have provided a stable, if not totally satisfactory base for AR objects to stick to (for lack of a better word this minute). They’re not totally … Read more
The world is suffering a little bit from Apple fatigue. More accurately, the world says, no no no, do not tell us about the next big thing, we’re still dealing with a backlog of next big things. Blessedly, Apple cut us all a little slack this year for its big-deal World Wide Developers Conference. … Read more
THX came to NAB 2018 with a big agenda and thanks to investment from Razer, some budget to work with. Razer is a major investor in THX and the company’s CEO Min-Liang Tan is currently the acting CEO of THX Ltd. Razer is investing in THX to rebuild the company’s position in cinema and consumer electronics. At NAB, THX showcased … Read more
It was just a few years ago, 2015 actually, that Adobe introduced its character animation tool to the world at NAB. At that time, it was part of Adobe’s After Effects and seemed a cute feature and something of a quirky addition to After Effects. Back then, a quick look at Character Animation made it seem similar to facial animation … Read more
