The latest update to the Cesium SaaS platform is a global layer of the world’s 3D buildings. In addition, Cesium collaborates with Epic to make geospatial data available within Unreal Engine. Cesium, as we have written, provides a platform for 3D GIS data which are organized as Global Base Layers and include worldwide data for terrain, aerial imagery, and … Read more
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Like PC sales and tablets, smartphone sales were down in Q1, according to Gartner, IDC, TrendForce, and others. IDC said smartphone shipment volumes for the first quarter of 2019 fell 6.6% on-year after a 4.9% year-over-year decline in the fourth quarter of 2018, and Gartner said Global sales of smartphones to end users declined 2.7% in the first quarter of … Read more
Nomoko, based in Zurich, Switzerland, has developed a 3D capture system based on their proprietary 1,500 MP camera and software. The company’s goal is to create large-scale 3D models, which function as digital twins with the real world. They have been creating models of large areas and cities, and after testing in Germany and Switzerland, Nomoko has released their product … Read more
You may have been noticing some pretty cool videos out there demonstrating fast rendering, image reconstruction, facial recognition, and so much more. A great benefit of relatively recent breakthroughs of machine learning is that the rate of advances is accelerating. Machines are becoming able to take advantage of what they already know and get smarter. This was a focus at … Read more
The recent release of Unreal Engine focuses on multi-platform support, and promises improved character development, for more lifelike characters. The game creation engine, Unreal Engine 4.20, introduces Niagara particle engine for VFX, a new Depth of Field (DoF) system; and in addition to the improvements to character development, Epic has improved the environment editor, making it easier for developers to … Read more
Success with cryptocurrency-mining mother boards leads company to next step According to a report in Digitimes, motherboard supplier ASRock reportedly will enter the AIB market in April and focus mainly on supplying AMD-based products. The company has seen an increase in the shipment proportion of high-end motherboards and rising sales for its IPC and server products. It is suggested that … Read more
Samsung's 2018 QLED TVs blend into the background when idle Since the TV is often the focal point of the living room, when it's off that blank black rectangle wastes a lot of space. To put it to better use, Samsung has introduced what it calls Ambient Mode, a low-power setting that lets the idle screen display news, weather, or … Read more
Line up at the nearest Nvidia store to get a TitanX Collector’s Edition Coming soon—Nvidia’s Titan X Collectors Edition AIB (Nvidia) Blinking lights, anybody’d guess what’s in it? HBM2 maybe, a la Volta. A big fat GPU with a lot of shaders? A collector’s item for the rich? Only from Nvidia—no partners need apply. Remember the Founder’s edition last year? … Read more
PC World sees increase in motherboard sales
11.5 TFLOPS and 11 billion triangles/second AMD has taken two WX 7100s and combined them into one AIB. The GPUs have 16 GB of GDDR5 each, and run two separate apps, or can be combined in Crossfire to run one app. Like the single GPU WX 7100, the Radeon Pro Duo is based on the Polaris architecture. AMD has 2x … Read more
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