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 ...
Glassbox Technologies: virtual production tools
Glassbox is debuting their new cross-platform virtual camera and real-time collaboration tools. Glassbox began as Opaque media, was founded by Norman Wang in 2012 to develop content for VR. Opaque Media created Earthlight: Spacewalk, a ...
The boxes of X
If you wanted to play Halo, or maybe Gears of War 5, which are non-PC games, you’d need a Microsoft Xbox game console and a TV or a PC monitor. You’d also need some ...
Corel releases CorelCAD 2019
As a CAD program based on the ODA DWG format and the Graebert Ares CAD engine, CorelCAD come late on to the scene. The Ares engine was introduced in 2005 and today Graebert is a ...
Famous Graphics Chips: IBM’s professional graphics, the PGC and 8514/A
IBM for a long time offered two levels of display capabilities: one for general purpose business users doing word processing, database entry, and Lotus spreadsheets, and one for engineering users—the latter always having higher resolution, ...
Famous Graphics Chips: IBM’s VGA
It is said about airplanes that the DC3 and 737 are the most popular planes ever built, and the 737, in particular, the best-selling airplane ever. The same could be said for the ubiquitous VGA, ...
Bentley Systems introduces Synchro XR for AEC digital twins
Bentley teams with Microsoft’s upcoming HoloLens 2 to introduce Synchro XR; brings Mixed reality for AEC and specifically construction analysis and visualization. Bentley Systems and Microsoft have been collaborating since at least 2016 when the ...
MakerBot makes a comeback: intros “Method” printer
MakerBot is back, and they mean business. In 2012, Bre Pettis made a very big splash on the 3D printer scene with his Replicator, which he was pitching as a household gadget. It came around ...
If you like 4K you’re going to love 6K—at least Apple thinks so
A noted Apple watcher, Ming-Chi Kuo recently posted (and was echoed) that he thought Apple would among other things be introducing a 31.6-inch 6K monitor. A few of my display-expert friends and I speculated on ...
Enterprise VR with human eye resolution
When I first encountered Varjo’s human eye resolution VR HMD in 2017, it was impressive but rough around the edges. The company, based in Helsinki, has since grown from 12 to 112 people and has raised ...
Patch me up Mr. Sweeney
Epic was the first company to demonstrate ray tracing using Microsoft’s new DRX API and Nvidia’s RTX technology at SIGGRAPH. They did that at GDC 2018 with a home-made movie using some of George Lucas’ ...
Ray tracing today
I first learned about ray tracing from Turner Whitted in 1980 and have been fascinated by and about it ever since. About eight years later I was working with a company called Meiko which was ...