Lytro no more
One of the tech industry’s most promising startups, Lytro, looks like its headed for the dustbin of startups. The news has been a little muddled early on with early stories reporting a sale to Google ...
GDC wrap-up: The engines are running strong
The message at GDC 2018 comes through loud and clear, AI/ML and realtime rendering with a little blockchain thrown in for no good reason. Mobile gaming is a powerful force at GDC this year too. ...
GDC: Yokozuna enables big data for the small guys
It’s easy to get sucked into the AI battles between the big data titans over who will own the gateway into the smart home and who will have the biggest, baddest cloud service that will ...
GDC: Five guys and Jon: Torching the cat
The Machine Learning for Games panel (GDC, 21st March), hosted by Imagination Technologies and moderated by our very own Dr. Peddie, gave us a pretty good sense of where we are on some parts of ...
AVI video codec
Open and free with lots of backers The Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia) formed in September 2015, with the goal of developing a royalty-free, open-source video format as an alternative to fee-based formats such as ...
JPR predicts we could have real time ray tracing on our PCs in less than 6 years
It will take a little longer for smartphones Nvidia demonstrated Microsoft’s approach to raytracing for games at GDC and again at GTC using their DGX station super computer through the DXR API. The $50,000 DGX ...
Eyetracking in StarVR’s next gen HMD
Foveated rendering in VR requires it Back in 2015 (it seems so long ago now), Software developer Starbreeze of Sweden and parts beyond acquired French VR hardware developer InfinitEye, which is now known as Starbreeze ...
Optical Trap Display Technology Under Development
A team of researchers led by Assistant Professor Daniel Smalley of the Electro-Holography Research Group within the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Brigham Young University (Provo, UT) is developing a means for “using light ...
Play games on a MacBook? Why not?
Khronos is making that possible. The Khronos Group announced that the Vulkan Working Group's Portability Initiative has been working with Khronos members Valve, LunarG, and The Brenwill Workshop to enable Vulkan applications to be ported ...
Hello Sophia, how’s Bina?
Hanson Robotics builds on its legacy; how real is the AI of this charming robot? Hanson Robotics, founded in 2003, has developed an AI-based animatronics robot that is strikingly compelling and a little scary, and ...
Israeli software will let your smartphone see in low light
New technique called Light Invariant Video Imaging Ben-Gurion University’s technology transfer company BGN Technologies, announced that researchers Negev (BGU) have developed a new Light Invariant Video Imaging (LIVI) software technology that can significantly improve picture ...
Jon Peddie Research Adds Cryptomining to its Data
New data including in Market Watch and Add-in-Board Reports In spite of boost from crytocurrency mining, GPU shipments decrease in the fourth quarter of 2017. Shipments were -1.5% compared to the previous quarter. Year-to-year total ...