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JVC shows a VR HMD

At the ITEC 2018 military simulation event in Stuttgart, Germany, last week, JVC had a couple of prototype VR headsets, both using a single display panel, one with 2560 x 1440 resolution and the other with ...

How real is Bentley’s reality modeling software?

It’s virtual and its local Bentley’s reality modeling software, ContextCapture, is now offered both as an on-premise and cloud-based service. Users can now access Bentley’s Connect cloud services with ContextCapture Cloud Processing Service and ProjectWise ...

Curvy 38-inch beauties

They’re monitors, not models To the best of my recollection, Dell was first with their beautiful U3415W curved 34-inch 21:9 IPS WQHD 3440 × 1440 monitor. They then topped that with the U3818DW 37.5-inch, 21:9 ...

AR HMD update

What and who is new AR is like that science fiction movie you saw and keep waiting for it to materialize in real-life—it’s almost there at your fingertips, you can almost taste it—almost. The concept ...

Professional Virtual Reality

@Xi and Meshroom-VR team up to offer turn-key VR products Generally speaking, VR has been a DIY deal. You buy an HMD from one company, a PC or its parts from another company or companies, ...

Nvidia’s Q1 FY19 results

$3.2 billion in sales, $1.24 billion profit, up 11% from last quarter  Nvidia reported another record of revenue for the first quarter ended May 1, 2018, of $3.21 billion, up 66% from $1.9 billion a ...

HP’s Spring line up

HP isn’t a flashy company, but boy do they have style. Known and respected for their engineering, their products have been attractive, but not usually head-turning.  That was then, this is now. You might have ...

Continued decline forecasted for PC

Despite pockets of encouragement According to IDC’s crystal ball, traditional PCs are forecast to contract at a CAGR of -0.9% till 2022 with volumes dropping from 259.4 million in 2017 to 248.3 million in 2022. ...

Thinking big—digitize the world and everything in it

Visualize the AR cloud, crowd built with details of the knives and forks on your table AR API startup 6D.ai is creating a software tool that will allow developers to use a 3D map made ...

Valve’s Steam Link feeds games to mobile devices and Apple TV

Play PC game library on Android and iOS devices  Steam was initially established to provide a means to distribute PC games via downloading over the internet. Valve extended their service in 2015 with Steam Link, ...

iQIYI to release 4K VR HMD

Back in 2013, Lionel Anton of Toulouse France and his two buddies, Stephane Portes and Robin Bourianes, introduced the world to high-resolution VR HMDs—their InfinitEye, a revolutionary 210-degree FOV VR HMD with 2560 × 800 ...

The evolving future of processors

We’ve been racing to keep pace with Moore’s Law for decades. GPUs have become our daily workhorse for visualization and aspects of compute. We’re close to adding FPGAs and quantum computing to that mix. This ...