AMD bullish
Join AMD and you too can have a ball on your cheek If any company in the computer industry can be described as the comeback kid, it’s AMD. All but written off eight years ...
Autodesk celebrates business model transition
Autodesk had a very good 2019, thanks primarily to the work it has been doing in construction and AEC. But also the company says they have successfully made the transition to their subscription business model, ...
AMD in position to gain more market share from Intel
If Intel isn’t going to roll out 7 nm until late 2021, then that means the dGPUs Intel has said it will release later this year will be at 10 nm. Otherwise, Intel will use ...
Pixelworks content-optimized motion and HDR processing for mobiles
Smartphones have held the high ground in acuity and PPI for a few years now, exceeding PCs and TVs by a factor of 1.5× or more, even as the screen size has increased. However, PPI ...
Qualcomm’s XR HMD knows where you’re looking
Building a VR HMD, which Qualcomm and others like to call XR, involves having a screen either in front of or piped to the wearer’s eyes. The size of the image and its PPI determine ...
Can LetinAR deliver lightweight consumer glasses?
If AR glasses are ever to become common accessories for daily life and work, they are going to have to be lightweight, comfortable, and indistinguishable from prescription or sunglasses. For those glasses to be really ...
Khronos and Smithsonian collaborate to distribute content
The Khronos Organization is a consortium creating open interoperability standards to foster cross-platform development. Their roots are in OpenGL, so graphics will always hold a special place in the organization’s growing list of interests. Khronos ...
Qualcomm’s XR2 5G headset reference design
(Source: Marko C, Ljubljana) Qualcomm Technologies unveiled a new extended reality (XR) reference design headset based on the Snapdragon XR2 Platform. The company has been successful with its XR program and claims design wins ...
VR and AR platforms and devices—Ultraleap is all in
Ultraleap has emerged as the offspring of the acquisition of Leap Motion by Ultrahaptics in the Spring of 2019. The merger joined two companies with different approaches to enable spatial interaction for digital devices. Ultrahaptics ...
Varjo changes the game
The Finnish headset company Varjo is building no-compromise VR. In 2019, the company started making a strong case for its high-resolution products including its VR-2 headsets and its new mixed reality headset, the XR-1, being ...
Famous graphics chips: Nintendo 64
Silicon Graphics had been a leader and highly respected workstation developer that rose to fame and fortune based on its introduction of a VLSI geometry processor in 1981. In the ensuing years, it developed leading ...
Cutting through the hype: cloud-based media creation
Cloud technology continues to promise huge potential for the VFX industry as we move into a new age of tech advancement. Remote collaboration, unbridled flexibility, global opportunities for burgeoning talent…the list of benefits that cloud ...