Ray tracing is a journey—through the ecosystem
As most of you know I love ray tracing, even just wrote a book about it (comes out Siggraph time). So, I was thrilled when at last year’s Siggraph Nvidia showed their Turing architecture and ...
Compute Express Link for all
The initial Compute Express Link (CXL) specification was developed by Intel and is being donated to a new consortium. Nine companies (so far) have signed up to support the new interface. Alibaba, Cisco, Dell/EMC, Facebook, ...
XR at Khronos
Driving to stay at least in step, if not ahead of the virtual, mixed, augmented, and yet to be named and marketed realities, the Khronos OpenXR working group has released their working API which covers ...
Thrive: Women in computer graphics
“Thrive” is the theme of 46th Siggraph conference that will be taking place at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, CA from of 28 July to 1 August 2019. The theme of the ...
CAD users look ahead
Business Advantage (BA) has been measuring the CAD market since 1992. The company conducts surveys worldwide on a custom basis. The group also conducts a regular trends survey to help them keep an eye on ...
Autodesk Unleashes 3ds Max 2020
With its latest version of 3ds Max, Autodesk says it is revamping the user experience. In this case, that means some new tools and plenty of improvements on tools and features that were already there. ...
Motion Design: Breaking Barriers
Motion graphics can be an invisible art. The animated graphical elements that are used to tell a story can do such a good job that the audience accepts them and the art disappears into the content ...
Graebert updates its Ares line of products
Graebert introduced its latest CAD engine at the end of 2018 and new products based on it are rolling out now in 2019. The highlights of the new version include the company's Trinity strategy to ...
CorelDraw 2019 goes multi-platform
Turning 30 is a time to reassess, to think about the future and maybe have a little bit too much to drink because you’re disappointed in your life so far. That’s for humans. When software ...
Epic builds out its portfolio
The game engine giants, Unreal and Unity are gathering in capabilities to make their platforms more powerful and attractive for users. Epic, having grown fat on Fortnite, has made several significant purchases for its Unreal ...
Unity acquires Vivox
Is there a game, aside from Monopoly that is, that celebrates the cutthroat nature of capitalism pitting competitors against each other in a fight to bankruptcy and turning allies against each other? Probably. The game ...
Nintendo revisits VR
The year is 1995, the world was full of promise, opposing political parties were civil to each other and a new idea called virtual reality was being introduced for PCs and other devices. The internet ...