NAB 2021 is over
Organizers cancel in-person convention amid big name cancellations
‘Inside Covid-19’ brings home the virus’ effect
At Siggraph 2021, filmmakers Gary Yost and Adam Loften showed their piece Inside Covid-19, which tells the story of one man’s battle with Covid-19 as a doctor and as a patient. The documentary follows Emergency Room supervisor Dr. Josiah Child who, early in the pandemic, developed safety protocols for hospitals in Northern California, and who had a very rough ride … Read more
Graphisoft Building Together 2021 is a week away
The AEC industry has become more resilient, flexible, and dynamic over the past five years than seemed possible in the decade before. The pandemic has had a lot to do with it, but even before, the digitalization of processes has transformed processes. The changes have been especially profound in construction. Every major company selling software tools for the AEC industry … Read more
Arm and Nvidia in the news
A quick summation: Arm–Nvidia deal gets more complicated, the more you know …
Colour.ai introduces Look Designer 2 with support for realtime game engines
Color Intelligence is the brainchild of Dado Valentic, a veteran color scientist who has worked in the movie industry across the transition from film to digital. He established the MyTherapy studio as an imaging resource for the industry. He founded Color Intelligence in 2018 with Mark L. Pederson and Steve Bayes. The company had seed funding from Hedge, an investment … Read more
Arm and Nvidia in the news
Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang talks about the Arm deal as all but done. But the latest news reports paint a more confusing picture. If there’s one thing, this deal doesn’t exactly have its momentum. While Americans were heading into their Labor Day holidays, the speculation around Nvidia’s proposed acquisition of Arm got a little crazier and stayed that way. There … Read more
Adobe will be more compelling for professionals with the acquisition of Frame.io
Adobe agrees to acquire Frame.io Adobe is adding some real power to its video product line with the acquisition of Frame.io, a cloud-based video company with over a million users. Like Adobe, Frame.io has a subscription-based business. Its “cloud-first” workflow promises responsiveness and data management features. It has also been offering integration with widely used video tools including Adobe’s … Read more
Frame.io introduces Camera to Cloud
Frame.io offers an established set of cloud-based video and review services. The company is upping the ante with the introduction of Camera to Cloud (C2C) a set of new capabilities, devices, and services that accelerates the production process from capture to finish.
PTC’s third quarter beats expectations
There were no real surprises in PTC’s third-quarter announcement and no balls were knocked out of no parks but the company demonstrates the value of fast reflexes and strategic moves as well as the established position of its Core products in the market. PTC president and CEO James Heppelmann said, “our performance in the third quarter and year to date … Read more
Khronos Group expands glTF
The ongoing evolution of glTF has turned into one of the major efforts of the Khronos Group and it has heightened awareness of Khronos. If you don’t know, Khronos is an open consortium of interested parties who cooperate on the establishment of advanced interoperability standards. Much of their work revolves around 3D and visualization. Most recently, they have released a … Read more
Horizon Workrooms: Facebook travels down a well-worn path to failure
Facebook introduced Horizon Workrooms, its take on the metaverse and so far it seems to have had a very hard landing. It’s never a good sign when a technology introduction gets more attention in the mainstream press than in the tech press. Worse, the press is having a field day with Facebook’s latest scheme to find relevancy for VR within social … Read more
HP puts a spin on the Chrome-based PC
Two new Chrome-based devices from HP add styling and additional features to up the ante on the Chrome-based computers. (Source: HP) Chromebooks have been gaining a steady edge in the PC’ish market since their introduction in 2011. They have met the needs of students and people looking for a lightweight computer to provide walk-around accessibility to the Interest. Google’s … Read more