Easily enter virtual reality with no PC or wires attached. Go where no one has gone before. Go with an Oculus Go, a standalone VR headset made to fit you. Designed with breathable fabrics, adjustable straps and Oculus’ best lenses yet. Starting at $199 USD with 32 GB of storage (or $249 USD for the 64 GB model), Oculus … Read more
And next year you might be able to get one First announced, sort of, at E3 2017 (as the Ataribox), the Atari big brass came to San Francisco during GDC 2018 and showed a few reporters a mockup in the Marriott Marquis. We’re not exactly sure why they did that because they really didn’t have anything to show or say. … Read more
New study commissioned by Alienware details gamer habits, attitudes, and understanding of today’s gaming community Alienware commissioned a study of gamers and it revealed some changes to long held beliefs about the community. New Dell study reports gaming community is growing larger than ever due to diversification and inclusiveness, resulting in a gaming market that exceeded $30 billion in 2016 … Read more
Based on Intel’s 8th gen CPU, and Nvidia—no AMD, no surprise When Intel introduces a new CPU series, shortly thereafter, Dell, Fujitsu, HP, Lenovo, and others announce a new product line based on the new CPU. Dell is usually the last of the bunch to do so, and again with Intel’s 8th gen this is the case. Saving the best … Read more
Using a little code to make big impressions Our friends at SuperD have been relentlessly toiling away at the math and code of their amazing sub-surfacing tool. We first reported on this in our July 5, 2017 issue. Originally thought of as a teaching tool, President & founder Kun Gao PhD, of Boulder Graphics showed us their latest release of … Read more
Sony Profits for Quarter Almost 347% Up The Sony profit forecast for the year to March 2018, has rebounded. The giant electronics and media company announced its expectations to realize record annual profits, and attributes the boost to the popularity of the PlayStation 4 gaming console. Sony has forecast that its operating profit for the year to March 2018 will … Read more
MegaMol from the Visualization Research Center of the University of Stuttgart The Visualisation Research Centre (VISUS) is a central institution of the University of Stuttgart. About 30 scientists research in different areas of scientific visualization, visual analytics, visual computing and computer graphics, as well as interdisciplinary, applied research. VISUS owns a large-area projection screen that is able to display about … Read more
The idea of using external graphics as a means of beefing up a laptop or desktop computer is not new, but it has been revitalized by the availability of Thunderbolt on modern machines. In 2008 ATI developed an external graphics box that connected to a laptop via what ATI called eXternal Graphics Port (XGP). Fujitsu and MSI built lap tops … Read more
Expanded line reaches semi-professionals, high-end designers, engineers, and content creators When HP announced the new ZBook x2 series back in October 2017 they were not just introducing a new workstation but a new category—the detachable workstation. The ZBook x2 is a culmination of hundreds of hours of research by HP. HP talked to graphic designers, artists, photographers and Creative Cloud Users and … Read more
Nvidia's big, bad Xavier is the first of a breed of processors that will power the modern world At GTC 2016, Nvidia previewed “Xavier,” an SoC that integrates a 512-core Volta GPU and an 8-core ARM CPU. Skipping the amusing retort given by most companies when questioned about leaks—we don’t pre-announce products—probably because press, analysts, and fans have been hearing … Read more
Outward AR is an interesting approach Microsoft’s Beamatron was one of the fist AR projection systems in 2012 using a fixed location projector (video here). Valve spinoff, Cast AR, was the first in 2013 to try using a projector as part of an AR headset. Microsoft tried it again in 2014 with their RoomAlive project. The idea was to turn … Read more
Nvidia’s GPU journey runs full circle to embrace the synergy of graphics and AI In a way, Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference of 2018 marked the culmination of the company’s past-decade journey, one in which it has explored and enabled new GPU markets, but one that has used that journey to further the goals of its original mission. A long way … Read more
