The Foundry acquires Luxology
London’s The Foundry acquires Bay Area 3D modeling and animation company Luxology and plan to forge a strong new player in the digital content creation market. The Foundry and both sides are looking forward to ...
Lightmap’s HDR Light Studio 4 offers point-and-light control
Precision lighting is crucial to content creators, yet it has been a tedious process. Lightmap’s HDR Light Studio 4, released today, offers an alternative. HDR Light Studio creates a single HDRI map containing the entire ...
Podcast: A conversation with Jon Peddie and Kathleen Maher and Brian David Johnson
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Autodesk moves simulation to the cloud
Autodesk has rolled up many of the simulation and analysis tools acquired in recent years and put them online as a new cloud-based service, Autodesk Simulation 360. Scott Reese, VP for Simulation and Cloud Platform, ...
The Workstation Market Remained Sluggish in Q2’12
The results from the workstation market’s first quarter were disappointing, as it marked the first two consecutive quarters of negative growth since 2008. Alex Herrera, Senior Analyst, reports that around 883,000 workstations shipped worldwide, down ...
The workstation market remained sluggish in Q2’12, reports Jon Peddie Research
The workstation market remained sluggish in Q2’12, reports Jon Peddie Research TIBURON, California September 9, 2012 – The results from the workstation market’s first quarter were disappointing, as it marked the first two consecutive quarters ...
Eye-tracking poised to become a standard computer-graphics feature
SolidWorks is only one of many companies looking to incorporate eye tracking into future updates to the user interface. The art of designing great computer controls will depend in part on combining eye-tracking with older ...
Cringely and Jobs famous interview restored by video magic
The lost interview from 1995 was recorded in low-resolution VHS, and restored by state-of-the-art technology from MotionDSP. After Jobs’ death in October 2011, director Paul Sen started looking for the tapes and found a VHS ...
Graphics Add-in Board Shipments seasonally down from Last Quarter
We found that AIB shipments during Q2 2012 did behave according to past years with regard to seasonality, but in unit shipments was lower on a year-to-year comparison and on a quarter-to-quarter comparison for the ...
Graphics Add-in Board Shipments seasonally down from Last Quarter
Seasonal drop is less than in previous years; AMD continues market share increase, but Nvidia still the leader TIBURON, CA-August 27, 2012—Jon Peddie Research (JPR), the industry’s research and consulting firm for graphics and multimedia, ...
Lightwave 3D Group spins out of Newtek to take on virtual production
One of the newest companies to appear on the scene is Lightwave 3D Group. The Lightwave team has spun out from Newtek and is ready to stand on its own. It is being headed by ...
FinalWire Rolls Out AIDA64 v2.60
FinalWire Ltd. announced this week the release of AIDA64 Extreme Edition 2.60 software, a streamlined diagnostic and benchmarking tool. The new AIDA64 release implements full support for Microsoft Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 operating ...