With its release of its latest AR platform last fall, Vuforia announced the addition of object recognition and ground plane detection, along with support for Apple’s ARKit and Google’s ARCore. Until relatively recently, targets have provided a stable, if not totally satisfactory base for AR objects to stick to (for lack of a better word this minute). They’re not totally … Read more
Play PC game library on Android and iOS devices Steam was initially established to provide a means to distribute PC games via downloading over the internet. Valve extended their service in 2015 with Steam Link, which is like Apple TV, Roku, and Shield—a little box that connects to one’s home network (to access the internet), and streams content from Value’s … Read more
The pendulum swings back — Apple kills Intel’s share price Back in the 1980s and all the way to the mid-1990s the big computer companies at the time were known as the BUNCH – Burroughs, Univac, NCR, Control Data, and Honeywell — names that probably aren’t even recognized now. They designed and built everything, as did their main and competitor … Read more
Hang an external AIB box on it. But not just any box, and not just any AIB. Apple recently announced that it is offering support for certain external chassis equipped with certain AMD AIBs. Such chassis are referred to as an eGPU, an external GPU and frequently called a box or even a bread box, so they become a EGPUBB … Read more
Khronos is making that possible. The Khronos Group announced that the Vulkan Working Group's Portability Initiative has been working with Khronos members Valve, LunarG, and The Brenwill Workshop to enable Vulkan applications to be ported to Apple platforms. The Vulkan Portability resource page (https://www.khronos.org/vulkan/portability-initiative) links to a collection of free and open source set of tools, SDKs, and runtime libraries … Read more
Units up 3.6% from last quarter, 5.4% from last year
Back in the go-go years leading up to the Internet bubble. I developed an adage which proved to be faultless, and a dire predictor of a company’s fate—as the building goes up, the company comes down. However, today with well-established firms like Apple, Nvidia, the amazing Salesforce Benioff tower in down town SF, Amazon, Google, and now Microsoft, that adage … Read more
UK tech leader takes Chinese lessons Our friends at Imagination Technologies Group have agreed to be acquired by China-backed private equity firm Canyon Bridge Capital Partners. Canyon Bridge said it will pay 182 pence a share in cash, or more than 550 million pounds ($740 million), for the U.K. designer of graphics chips. That’s 42% more than Imagination’s closing share … Read more
