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Anthropomorphic robot, 3D HD camera rig highlight Siggraph 2012 Emerging Technologies

The annual display of Emerging Technologies is one of Siggraph’s most popular activities. This year’s Siggraph will be August 5-9, 2012 in Los Angeles. Read more on Siggraph’s Emerging Technologies on our GFXspeak website.

Autodesk 123D Catch for iPad Turns Your Photos Into 3D Models

The new Autodesk 123D Catch app allows users to capture the world around them in 3D. Photos of vacation memories, family or other mementos brought to life in 3D. Captures made in 123D Catch can ...

PC Gaming Hardware Market to Hit $23.6 Billion in 2012

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PC Gaming Hardware Market to Hit $23.6 Billion in 2012

Premium quality “Enthusiast” and “Performance” class equipment contributes $3.2 billion in growth from 2011 TIBURON, Calif., May 03, 2012 –Jon Peddie Research estimates there are 54 million Performance and Enthusiast class PC gamers worldwide, with ...

SolidWorks app for iPad

Dassault Systèmes SolidWorks today releases eDrawings for iPad, an app to view and review drawings and models. It works with native eDrawings files, DraftSight files, and SolidWorks parts, assemblies, and drawing files. It also supports ...

Adobe presents Creative Suite 6 in festive cloud raiment

The first response from Adobe users is overwhelming positive. A new Creative Cloud makes it possible to rent all CS6 products for a monthly fee. The various technology updates in the products are worth the ...

Geometric annual revenue rises 22% to $167.5 million

PLM software and services vendor Geometric Ltd. saw its annual revenue, as expressed in US Dollars, rise 22% year-over-year for fiscal year 2012. The company’s fourth-quarter revenue was up 18.7% year-over-year. For fiscal year 2012, ...

A midterm test for the CAD industry

Pockets of economic uncertainty remain, but 2012 is shaping up to be a better year for CAD than 2011. In JPR’s 2012 CAD Report, we put the number of CAD users for 2011 at just ...

Stratasys and Objet plan merger

Confirming weeks of rumors, the two makers of industrial 3D printers will unite under the Stratasys name in an all-stock transaction. The combined company will be worth $1.4 billion. The merged company will have over ...

Khronos turns 12 with 15 APIs and counting

The mobile industry has come to rely on Khronos’ APIs as much as the graphics industry. The future is rosy if all industry players pay attention to the bigger picture. The Khronos Organization took their ...

Autodesk 2012 by the numbers

Autodesk made its annual pitch to the media last week in San Francisco, and threw out a lot of numbers. When we parse the numbers, the picture emerges of a company happily running as fast ...

Review of AMD Radeon HD 7950 Tahiti – Better than even the HD 6970

Announced in December, AMD began shipping the HD 7950 in mid-January, and through the magic of modern transportation, one arrived here already, in mid-March, so obviously you’re anxious to read all about its performance characteristics. ...