Dell spends billions of dollars on R&D—BILLIONS. R&D expenses were $4.4 billion for Fiscal 2018 and $2.6 billion for Fiscal 2017. With a budget like that, some interesting things can be done, and Dell is doing them. One of the areas the company has been exploring is gaming, and the Alienware group has come up with a handheld device … Read more
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang at the company’s GPU technology conference in China. (Source: Nvidia) Nvidia has been holding GTC conferences around the U.S. and the world and recently held one in China. At the Chinese GTC, the company announced a deal with Didi, an app-based transportation provider (similar to Uber) to use Nvidia GPUs in its data center for … Read more
Right in the middle of wrapping presents, agonizing over what to feed people, and wishing work would just shut up for a minute, Maxon and Red Giant announced plans to “combine forces,” in a deal worth more than $70 million. Maxon’s announcement follows on the acquisition of the Redshift and reaffirms the group’s commitment to strengthening Maxon’s technology with outside … Read more
At CES 2020, Artilux will show its Explore Series, a wide spectrum 3D ToF (time-of-flight) sensor based on GeSi (germanium-on-silicon). Why is such an esoteric thing interesting? Because if you use a beam of light for a ToF 3D sensor, you have to be careful about what kind of light you use and how it will be impacted by the … Read more
Source: Oppo At Chinese smartphone Oppo’s Inno Day 2019, in Shenzhen, China, the company demonstrated their AR glasses that were capable of detecting hand gestures to control objects on the screen. In addition to the hand gestures, the Oppo AR glasses will respond to voice controls. The glasses were not tethered to a phone or a computer. In a … Read more
Much of the discussion at Autodesk University revolves around new building projects, but as our world shrinks, the built environment may offer the most opportunity for change and improvement. This year, Autodesk named Build Change as the recipient of Autodesk’s donation drive during Autodesk University 2019. Build Change addresses the challenges posed by sub-standard housing all around the world by … Read more
The themes and news coming out of Autodesk University aren’t big surprises. The company focused heavily on AEC and zoomed in on construction. Well, why not? These conferences aren’t about surprises. Companies use conferences to telephone their customers. The message Autodesk wanted their users to think about now is the opportunity provided by an almost inherently inefficient construction industry. The … Read more
Nvidia’s got game Nvidia reported revenue from all platforms up for the quarter and beat Wall Street’s expectations. The company’s GPU business revenue was $2.6 billion, up22% from last quarter, but down 8% from last year. The quarter was the fourth consecutive decline in year-over-year sales. “Our gaming business and demand from hyperscale customers powered Q3’s results,” said Jensen Huang, … Read more
Due to the incorporation of cameras on the front of what have been traditionally known as “VR headsets,” the VR and AR industries were faced with a conundrum and an overlap. AR can be experienced through cameras in a VR head-mounted display (HMD). In fact, the vast majority of headset AR on the market today is experienced through cameras. … Read more
When it all comes together: HP has been working on the challenge of real-world 3D capture for some time. At Adobe Max, the company was able to show off the process from capture to print. That Dalek sitting next to the Z4 Workstation is HP’s new Captis device. (Source JPR) It's no secret that Adobe is growing its 3D … Read more
I first met Mr. Delaney in 1990, I think, when I was trying to figure out if virtual reality would ever get out of the military labs and into consumer’s or, at least, industry’s hands. Ben was convinced it would and made it his life’s passion, and effort to ensure it did. He had a few imitators, but no one … Read more
Nvidia has been extremely clever at squeezing an ROI out of its failed efforts to enter the mobile phone and tablet business. The slick cliché slingers call it pivoting, we call it making lemonade, our cliché is better. The tiny but mighty Arm-based Tega SoC that drank too much of a mobile phone’s battery does just fine in automobiles, … Read more
