GPUs at work in the arts
AMD blew into LA on the fresh breeze of new products and they brought the tribe of press and analysts with them. At Los Angeles, AMD celebrated the arrival of the latest products from its ...
And it just gets better
Siggraph 2017: machines, people and tools get smarter The flash points for Siggraph this year, were the flash points for last year: rendering, cloud-based workflows, workstations, VR/AR, AI, engines, and tools. What’s different is that ...
Nvidia covers wide ranging bases
At Siggraph, Nvidia showcased its software for AI, machine learning, robot programming etc., and it reminded attendees that it has had NVLink, a highspeed link for semiconductors since 2014. However, AMD and Nvidia are reaching ...
AR without head gear
Just sit on The Bench Disney has The Bench, an AR experience for many, simultaneously, without the need for any head gear, developed by Disney Research Pittsburgh. The viewer(s) sit on a bench and look ...
Virtually thinking about VR
Get your brain in the game Neurable’s vision is to use braincomputer interface to allow people to control software and devices using only their brain activity. Immersive computing requires a new approach to human-computer interaction. ...
What happens when everyone is a creator
JPR at a lunch At its core level, the subject of Siggraph is human human creativity. Increasingly though, we're seeing machine creativity get more attention as AI breaks out of the labs and gets into ...
HP VR backpack
A workstation in a backpack HP showed their VR backpack at Siggraph 2016, and it was well received, but not offered for sale. Except for a few old timers, no one could think of VR ...
Nvidia’s Q2 FY17 results
$2.2 billion in sales, $583 million profit up 15% Nvidia reported that their second quarter revenue increased 56 percent year over year and 15 percent sequentially to a record $2.23 billion. Growth, said the company, ...
Siggraph ’17: the hardware round-up
Workstations and 3D graphics hardware don’t hold the same status they used to at summer’s annual convening of Siggraph, a conference today with more focus on computer graphics applications and productions than the underlying platform. ...
What I saw at Siggraph
Ever new and ever magical This was my 38th Siggraph, and it was as exciting as the first one, well maybe not the first one, but pretty damn exciting nonetheless. Siggraph continues to attract imaginative ...
Nurulize
3D point-cloud scanning using only RGB and XYZ Nurulize is a virtual reality software developer founded in 2013 by software development and VFX industry veterans Philip Lunn and Scott Metzger. The company’s product was recently ...
So easy a bot can do it
The real danger of AI may be that it takes all the fun out of life A bot stole the show at The International Dota 2 Championship. Developed using OpenAI on Microsoft Azure and the ...