In this video, filmmaker Douglas Trumbull shares a history of cinema technology and a retrospective of his Academy Award-winning career exclusively for the ACM SIGGRAPH Pioneers community.
PC GPU market shipments decreased -5.3% sequentially from last quarter but increased 14.9% year-to-year.
Nvidia has been pushing the envelope on graphics chips since it integrated the geometry processor and pixel shader into one chip and called it a GPU, 21 years ago. The potential for GPUs then vastly expanded in 2003 when a branch of development spiked out of GPU applications that took advantage of the GPUs parallel processing for pure computation using … Read more
In the mid-1990s, two major developments were taking place. One was the explosion of 3D graphics chip companies, and the other was the emergence of virtual reality from the labs to industry. In 1990, twenty companies were making or had declared they would make a 3D graphics chip. By 1996, the number of suppliers exploded to 70. And by 2000, … Read more
President and Founder of Jon Peddie Research join Tom of Moore’s Law Is Dead to discuss the evolution of everything that “touches pixels.” This includes VR, Ray Tracing, next-gen consoles, and gaming Graphics Cards.
Tech Soft 3D makes stuff go round, or square. It has tools for data exchange, interoperability, and 3D development. The company has grouped its disparate development tools under the brand name of its lead technology, the HOOPS graphics engine. It offers a wealth of tools and capabilities packaged as HOOPS Communicator, HOOPS Exchange, HOOPS Publish, and HOOPS Visualize. The company’s … Read more
Seeing what you believe
AMD significantly increases market share in the quarter
Ultraleap has emerged as the offspring of the acquisition of Leap Motion by Ultrahaptics in the Spring of 2019. The merger joined two companies with different approaches to enable spatial interaction for digital devices. Ultrahaptics had the Stratos platform using ultrasound to provide tactile feedback and with the acquisition of Leap Motion, it added hand tracking using optical sensors and … Read more
The PC GPU market shipments increased 3.4% sequentially from last quarter, but decreased year-to-year by -1.3% year-to-year
It’s been a busy month for Dassault, a notoriously busy company to begin with. The company announced its fourth quarter and year-end results for 2019; kicked off its first 3DExperience World conference, which the company has introduced to replace its very popular Solidworks World conference. Dassault’s results for the end of 2019 show income from the Medidata acquisition, but there … Read more
PTC issued an optimistic release for the fiscal first quarter of 2020. The company came through a rough 2019 with problems in its channel and problems converting customers to subscription at the expected rate. The company said it knew about the problem and that they’ve pulled the right levers to fix it. They seem to be right. The company had … Read more
