Cesium gets down to earth
The data is out there and there’s more of it every second. Founded in 2011, Cesium is a software platform for 3D geospatial data. The company grew out of the aerospace industry when a team ...
R&D project demos multi-player VR via phone
Multi-player VR Park in the Philippines. (Source: Nvidia) Purdue University researchers have created a new approach to VR that will allow multiple players to interact with the same VR app on smartphones and provide ...
Xbox Series X peak
The Xbox Series X is defined by three primary characteristics: power with new AMD GPU, speed with 1 TB SSD, and compatibility. Microsoft says the new X Box Series X will be backward compatible and ...
3D dashboard: will it help or distract?
Using eye-tracking to drive a set of slanted parallax-barrier slats, Continental has developed a new 3D display system for the Genesis GV80 instrument panel. Continental aims to revolutionize the way displays are configured in ...
Epic Games buys Cubic Motion for facial mapping technology
Epic’s latest acquisition, Cubic Motion of Manchester, England, consolidates the work the two companies have been doing in virtual production. Game engines have been adapted for virtual production probably since at least 2013 or so. ...
Varjo adds chroma-keying for realtime AR
Finnish-based Varjo has added realtime chroma-keying and object tracking to its XR-1 Developer Edition headset. Chroma-keying, also known as green-screening, has been used extensively in film making and broadcasting. Varjo has added that capability to ...
Khronos Vulkan Ray Tracing API announced
courtesy of PTC Khronos has integrated Ray Tracing Pipelines into the Vulkan open standard API together with the option of ray launching from any shader and some new ways of offloading intensive setup tasks ...
Tech Soft 3D gets new funding, rolls out new SDKs for 2020
Tech Soft 3D makes stuff go round, or square. It has tools for data exchange, interoperability, and 3D development. The company has grouped its disparate development tools under the brand name of its lead technology, ...
Visualization for everyone: Khronos starts development of ANARI—an ANAlytic Rendering Interface API
New ANARI API will streamline data visualization Analytic rendering is image generation performed primarily to gain and communicate insights into complex data sets. Scientific visualization is the primary application domain using analytic rendering today, ...
Twinmotion sees new milestones
Shiny happy people: Twinmotion now has the ability to import characters. It also features a variety of vegetation options. (Source: Epic) Visualization is an important tool for architects, so important that it has traditionally ...
Ray tracing in next gen Xbox AND PS5
Reports from sites and bloggers, reliable and otherwise, have been swirling since October that Sony’s next-gen PS5 will support ray tracing using an AMD custom VPU. That small, basic bit of information was also confirmed ...
Varjo adds chroma-keying for realtime AR
Finnish-based Varjo has added realtime chroma-keying and object-tracking to its XR-1 Developer Edition headset. Chroma-keying, also known as green-screening, has been used extensively in film making and broadcasting (think scrimmage line). Varjo has added that ...