At GDC, Nvidia and Microsoft made a joint announcement about the possibility of doing real time ray tracing, something the CG community has striven for since ray tracing was popularized by Turner Whitted in 1979. Whitted did it on big computers at Bell Labs, just before the PC was introduced. Since then, scores of papers and books have been written … Read more
Smelling and tasting next? VR resurgence into the consumer space has brought with it a host of wants. It is pretty clear that people want to have VR experiences and want them more realistic. One by one the challenges are being reduced if not totally eliminated. Resolution and FOV have been improved, screen door effect minimized, better apps and faster … Read more
FreeSynch on HDMI tears our tarring. Why should PC gamers have all the fun? Indeed. Just because you can get a beautiful, large screen 4K UHD monitor and drive it with a powerful GPU that is used in supercomputer, doesn’t mean folks who can’t afford that kind of rig, or people who want to sit back and game on a … Read more
Misconceptions about Microsoft’s recent update Microsoft’s update for Windows 10, the Spring Edition, is going to add new artificial intelligence capabilities which is it calling Windows ML. These capabilities will be open to developers allowing them to use pre-trained machine learning models in their apps for Windows-based devices such as PCs, workstations, and servers and including HoloLens and IoT edge … Read more
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
