VR is doomed. VR is going to change the technology world AR and VR are not the same so why do we keep talking about them as if they are? There, that should get us started. As for the first two propositions, I figure they’re both true. In some quarters VR skeptics are exultant because the numbers for new buyers … Read more
Better vision in VR Helsinki-based Varjo was founded 10 months ago by a group of ex-Microsoft, -Intel, and -Nvidia engineers; folks from University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics in St. Petersburg; plus a few other high-tech companies. There are 20 people in the team now and a few of them came to the US a month ago to show … Read more
Chaos Group, one of the most powerful contenders in the ray tracing sweepstakes is offering its SDK for developers who wish to add rendering to their applications. The V-Ray Application SDK includes a high-level API, which enables developers to integrate V-Ray’s rendering into any application. Iavor Trifonov, the VP of Cloud and Integrations says the advantage to using the V-Ray … Read more
Meta is a big kauna in the San Jose AWE community, they have a big impact at the show. This year, Meta CEO Meron Gribetz's keynote revealed the company's Meta Workspace, an AR operating system. Meta has gone with an office metaphor with shelves to store conten, “monitors” for displaying 2D content, and Airgrab that lets people grab and manipulate … Read more
GE former CEO finds changing course is a lot harder than running the company; so is weathering investor impatience The news of Jeff Immelt’s replacement as CEO got me thinking about these dark days for CEOs. Technology CEOs are dealing with The Chasm, a big one. The growing capabilities of the cloud to compute, interpret, analyze, and communicate could well eliminate … Read more
Giant CPUs and big plans There was a bit more of a showdown between AMD and Intel this year as AMD has got new products to put up against Intel in addition to a compelling argument. So compelling in fact, that it looks like Intel has jiggered their roadmap to answer AMD’s claim that Intel has gotten a little fat … Read more
Qualcomm introduces new audio products At Qualcomm Technologies Inernational voice and music developer conference in Shenzhen, China, the company introduced a new Qualcomm Smart Audio Platform, which will enable the development of smart, net-worked speakers. The company is offering two SoC options based on the APQ8009 and APQ8017 and including them with software options to allow OEMs to build smart … Read more
Digitize it, automate it, electrify it, communicate with it, analyze it Siemens CEO of Siemens US Judy Marks announced the company’s new push to advanced manufacturing with Innovation Day, a day of presentations and demonstrations of the company’s technologies. She reminded the audience that Siemens is also an American company having made over $10 billion in investment in U.S. companies … Read more
PTC's LiveWorx conference pulls out all the stops as the company builds an infrastructure of companies, people, and things. . While President Trump was in Germany irritating German Chancellor Angela Merkel, PTC was in Boston celebrating Industrie 4.0 Germany’s push to intelligent design and manufacture. Industrie 4.0, echoed round the world in initiatives such as Made in China 2025, Industry … Read more
Virtual filmmaking gets more real As has been true for many years, the program at FMX has had a strong emphasis on virtual filmmaking. Throughout that time, the definitions for virtual filmmaking have changed and expanded as the capabilities compute resources become more powerful, the cloud infrastructure gets built out and imaginative developers are finding new ways to put the … Read more
We’re all peering at the news between our fingers fascinated and terrified by what’s likely to jump out of the stomach of the collective psyche. It used to be that working in tech seemed to offer a refuge from politics, world events, and disaster, but with worms creeping towards the household server, geeking is just likely to make one more … Read more
Look at what you’re doing, not what the AIs are doing Everyone who has heard of AI (which as you know was just invented a few weeks ago) is sounding the warning bells about how AI thingies will take over our jobs. To which I say, come and get it—and hurry. Look at what you do. How many repetitive tasks … Read more
