Intel goes steampunk with new GPU AIB
As you know I am a very close follower of anything that moves or mangles a pixel, and over the years Intel has mangled lots of pixels. I’ve been closely monitoring all leaks, tweaks, tweets, ...
Varjo’s XR-1 mixed reality headset
I have never been a fan of the term mixed-reality, and think it is misleading, confusing, and annoying. Microsoft started it by calling their Hololens AR HMD an MR HMD because they were trying ...
VRgineers show MR module for giant headset
Last year at AWE, Prague-based VRgineers showed their super wide 180-degree FOV headset with “5K” displays, the XTAL. The XTAL headset was available in the U.S. for $5,800. (Source: VRgineers) The over-sized 770 g ...
nreal AR glasses are very real
Remember JP’s rules for AR: Don’t be ugly or obnoxious Don’t be expensive or heavy Don’t be proprietary nreal comes very close to meeting all three requirements. The glasses are lightweight, they are not ...
ARM introduces a display processor and enhances its Mali GPU
ARM has done a lot of clever things over the past 29 years of its existence and buying Falanx in 2006 and continuing to invest in it for the past 13 years is one of ...
High VR HMD resolutions
We are taking the arbitrary position of declaring any VR HMD with greater than 2.4mp per eye as being high-resolution VR. At the recent AWE conference, two companies stood out for their very high-resolution display ...
The death of text: new announcements from Google I/O
The weather wasn’t the best, but they came to learn. Developers at Google I/O learned that security is the new cool. (Source: Google) It’s been clear for a long time that Google doesn’t see ...
Qualcomm updates their XR platform
At AWE this week, Qualcomm introduced its new Qualcomm Snapdragon XR Smart Viewer reference design that, the company says, will make it easier for hardware companies to create lightweight augmented reality glasses. XR1 is Qualcomm’s ...
Qualcomm Lenovo “Project Limitless”
Is this the one that will go to market? Qualcomm has shown up at Computex with an always on, always connected light-weight Windows compatible clamshell notebook since 2016. And yet, it never seemed to make ...
Innovative laptops shown at Computex
In addition to the HP leather accented launch reported earlier, some of the other notebooks introduced at Computex were equally interesting. Some of them were concept devices and may never be commercially available, but the ...
Famous Graphics Chips: 3Dfx’s Voodoo
This is the latest installment of a series of short articles about graphics chips, controllers, and processors, that changed the course of the computer graphics (CG) industry. 3Dfx was founded in 1994 in San Jose, ...
Leap Motion acquired by Ultrahaptics for $30 million
Ultrahaptics and Leap Motion come together to push spatial interaction technology. (Source: Ultrahaptics) Did it seem Leap Motion got awfully quiet? Well, it did, the company had seen its valuation drop and was clearly ...