Autodesk has numerous small projects for its generative design program, including its collaboration with Volkswagen on a showcase 1962 hippie bus, ongoing work with Airbus, and a collaboration with General Motors on auto parts. Generative design allows designers to define constraints for a part, the elements that are absolutely required such as strength, thermal limits, size, material properties and then … Read more
Electronics is becoming a check-off capability for companies comparing CAD capabilities. Among cloud CAD competitors, most notably Autodesk and PTC (after its acquisition of OnShape), electronics design is needed to fill out the capabilities of online CAD in comparison to its older, more earth-bound competitors. Onshape added electrical design in 2018. SolidWorks teamed with Altium to offer a collaborative tool … Read more
zSpace was founded in 2001 and immediately caused a stir as one of the first companies to deliver XR in supremely practical applications relying on 3D visualization. zSpace now offers three models: a laptop, and two AIOs (all-in-ones), all of which come with 3D glasses and a stylus. The secret of zSpace’s technology is the tracking built into the display. … Read more
Maya, an upcoming influencer has been found dead, and an obsessed detective suspects foul play. Her phone appears to be intentionally wiped, and her cause of death seems… unnatural. You are given her phone to conduct an unsanctioned police investigation, and piece together the mystery surrounding her death. Solve the case before whatever happened to Maya… happens again. And so … Read more
Every day in their engineering jobs with leading OEMs and graphics card manufacturers, the representatives of the SPEC Graphics and Workstation Performance Group (SPEC/GWPG) assess the latest technologies designed to make their products run professional applications faster and more efficiently. In their role with SPEC/GWPG, they take that knowledge and develop benchmarks that test real-world performance in ways that … Read more
ONVIF Security cameras can be used with Vuzix Blade glasses to enable security personnel be on the move and monitor several cameras at once. (Source: Vuzix) Vuzix is a smart glasses company with unusual longevity in the perilous field of AR/VR glasses makers. In AR, vendors struggle to balance the market's demand for low profile, lightweight glasses at equally … Read more
Katana, Foundry’s professional lighting and look development software is a powerful tool developed for cinematic and video production teams. As a procedural, asset-based tool, Katana enables people on a project to work with specific elements of a scene without interfering with each other’s work. True to the Foundry’s workflow approach, Katana relies on a node-graph, which is akin to creating … Read more
CES, the land of dreams, hopes, and big promises. Ambarella was founded in 2004 on the basis of a massive semi-smart image sensor with video-compression. Four years later, the company introduced its flagship product, the H2 with an image processing pipeline that included a 10-bit HDR video processing and imaging that could handle challenging low-light conditions. In 2011, the company … Read more
Boxx Technologies recently announced that its APEXX T3 workstation now features the new, 3rd generation AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X processor—AMD’s highest performing desktop processor. Boxx is among the first workstation manufacturers to ship systems equipped with the new processor. Boxx sees the new workstation being used for rendering complex 3D scenes, encoding, or powering simulation and analysis. In such applications, … Read more
I have reported several times on Finnish XR start-up Varjo since I first recognized the potential of their concept of “foveated resolution.” I reported most recently a few weeks ago from AWE Europe in Munich. (Varjo Pushes The Envelope on VR Performance). So, I wasn't sure whether to accept their invitation to a brief meeting in London as they started … Read more
Remember when anyone who had a tech company had a blockchain strategy? It’s happening again, Batman. AMD has announced that it’s joining the Blockchain Game Alliance (BGA). The company says it is partnering with Robot Cache and Ultra to promote the development and proliferation of blockchain-based PC gaming. This is a movement in the making. The activities listed on the Blockchain … Read more
Epic Games announced e.d. films as their first MegaGrant award winner for an animation company. The company says they’ll use the money to continue production on three projects which include two shorts and a VR experience coming in 2020. The company has an innovative style that combines 2D and 3D and they’re using Epic’s realtime tools to efficiently produce their work. … Read more
