Last year, uSens introduced a stereo camera module capable of hand tracking. Now, uSens say they can achieve the same thing with just a smartphone's camera. At the Augmented World Expo in Santa Clara, uSens showed a beta version of its uSensAR Hand Tracking SDK, which enables developers to integrate hand tracking and 3D motion recognition for augmented and virtual … Read more
Microsoft is aggressively increasing its in house game development work and is adding five new game development teams through acquisition and is also founding a new development studio called the Initiative, which will be based in Santa Monica and led by Darrell Gallagher. Gallagher told Dean Takahashi in a VentureBeat interview just about nothing other than that his job is to … Read more
Array Technology Inc. was founded in 1985 by K.Y. Ho, and the Lau brothers, Lee, Francis, and Benny, in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada. The company subsequently moved to Markham, just north of Toronto, in 1993. The company built sub-assemblies for the still new PC industry and introduced one of the industry’s first graphics boards. By 1987, ATI had grown into an … Read more
In March 2018, TECHnalysis Research conducted an online survey of 1,000 US consumers that identified themselves as gamers and who owned some type of augmented reality or virtual reality capable device. Ages of the respondents ranged from 18 to 74, with nearly 60% falling in the 18–34 range; For VR users, it was discovered that most users had tried a … Read more
Researchers from the Holst Centre in Belgium, an open innovation initiative of IMEC and TNO in Netherlands, have demonstrated a new class of flexible, large-area sensor technology for detecting finger- and palmprints. It is less than 0.2 mm thick and doesn’t use prisms or any moving parts. The sensors can be built into mobile phones and notebooks, or door handles to … Read more
Penguin Computing (Freemont), led by CEO Tom Coull, has been around since 1998. Prior to Penguin, Tom was a serial entrepreneur, and also founded Sense 8, a leading VR company of the day. Penguin carved out a place in HPC with some clever innovations like its POD or Penguin on Demand, making high-density HPC available as a cloud service. SGI … Read more
With its release of its latest AR platform last fall, Vuforia announced the addition of object recognition and ground plane detection, along with support for Apple’s ARKit and Google’s ARCore. Until relatively recently, targets have provided a stable, if not totally satisfactory base for AR objects to stick to (for lack of a better word this minute). They’re not totally … Read more
The world is suffering a little bit from Apple fatigue. More accurately, the world says, no no no, do not tell us about the next big thing, we’re still dealing with a backlog of next big things. Blessedly, Apple cut us all a little slack this year for its big-deal World Wide Developers Conference. … Read more
What and who is new AR is like that science fiction movie you saw and keep waiting for it to materialize in real-life—it’s almost there at your fingertips, you can almost taste it—almost. The concept still excites and attracts developers, investors, conference creators, and attendees, and the press. AR will be as important and integrated into our lives as AI … Read more
$3.2 billion in sales, $1.24 billion profit, up 11% from last quarter Nvidia reported another record of revenue for the first quarter ended May 1, 2018, of $3.21 billion, up 66% from $1.9 billion a year earlier, and up 10% from $2.9 billion in the previous quarter, with growth across most of its platforms. Revenues were up in all segments. … Read more
HP isn’t a flashy company, but boy do they have style. Known and respected for their engineering, their products have been attractive, but not usually head-turning. That was then, this is now. You might have gotten a hint that the company was up to a major refresh when they recently introduced their stylized logo for their premium products. The logo … Read more
Despite pockets of encouragement According to IDC’s crystal ball, traditional PCs are forecast to contract at a CAGR of -0.9% till 2022 with volumes dropping from 259.4 million in 2017 to 248.3 million in 2022. IDC sees a ray of sunshine in this bleak forecast when detachable tablets such as the Microsoft Surface Pro are included, and the growth rate … Read more
