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
From a low-cost Samsung Gear VR HMD to a super high-performance Rift, Oculus has the VR landscape pretty much covered. Hugo Barra, VP of VR at Oculus shows the company’s existing and future product lineup for 2018 Oculus showed off a range of HMDs at GDC and explained how they think they’ve got something for everyone. Low-cost entry-level (some … Read more
The message at GDC 2018 comes through loud and clear, AI/ML and realtime rendering with a little blockchain thrown in for no good reason. Mobile gaming is a powerful force at GDC this year too. In the near future, games will know no platform. The emphasis is playing any game, any time, on any platform. And Epic’s Fortnite, the darling … Read more
It’s easy to get sucked into the AI battles between the big data titans over who will own the gateway into the smart home and who will have the biggest, baddest cloud service that will suck all our consumer dollars from our bank accounts and into theirs. It’s exciting and important but there is a lot more going on in … Read more
The Machine Learning for Games panel (GDC, 21st March), hosted by Imagination Technologies and moderated by our very own Dr. Peddie, gave us a pretty good sense of where we are on some parts of that topic, as well as an indication that we need to be very careful to define terms. Panel mambers represented mobile, desktop, and console gaming. … Read more
Open and free with lots of backers The Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia) formed in September 2015, with the goal of developing a royalty-free, open-source video format as an alternative to fee-based formats such as H.264 and HEVC. At the time, the Alliance’s initial seven Founding Members—Amazon, Cisco, Google, Intel, Microsoft, Mozilla, and Netflix set out to advance video codec … Read more
Foveated rendering in VR requires it Back in 2015 (it seems so long ago now), Software developer Starbreeze of Sweden and parts beyond acquired French VR hardware developer InfinitEye, which is now known as Starbreeze Paris. StarVR offers a 210-degree horizontal field of view—the widest FOV in the world, Starbreeze says—and 5120 × 1440 resolution through dual 5.5-inch displays, at … 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
Hanson Robotics builds on its legacy; how real is the AI of this charming robot? Hanson Robotics, founded in 2003, has developed an AI-based animatronics robot that is strikingly compelling and a little scary, and for the cynics, highly questionable; its name is Sophia, and “she” tells jokes, winks, and has a philosophic Sophia awakens point of view — or … Read more
New technique called Light Invariant Video Imaging Ben-Gurion University’s technology transfer company BGN Technologies, announced that researchers Negev (BGU) have developed a new Light Invariant Video Imaging (LIVI) software technology that can significantly improve picture clarity of cameras in sub-optimal lighting, thus enhancing object recognition. The new software app can be added to any existing smart camera system for various … Read more
After alerting the media at the Supercomputing Conference in 2016, Nvidia introduced the DGX-1 supercomputer at GTC 2016, as the world's first deep learning supercomputer to meet the unlimited computing demands of artificial intelligence. The price was $149,000 and came equipped with eight Tesla V100s GPUs, linked together via next-gen Nvidia NVLink interconnect technology that ups the bandwidth per GPU … 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
