Letter From Taipei: Microsoft resuscitates the baby
The mother of the PC brings it back to life The father of the PC was IBM and so we suppose Microsoft was the mother. The godfather of the PC may turn out to be ...
A little clarification—we hope
With mixed concepts, marketing hype, and general confusion you need some definitions To say the purveyors and wannabe purveyors of consumer-oriented VR stuff (headsets, controllers, components, and content) are not in sync on what the ...
Isambard — an oxymoron
Cray to Deliver ARM-Powered Supercomputer How could the puniest processor other than Raspberry Pi Zero be used in a supercomputer? Cray thinks it’s happening. Cray started exploring the use of an ARM processor with Cavium ...
Carnegie Mellon introduces a new element to AR’s taxonomy
Another way to see thigs that aren’t there If you have a standard-size lamp you can experience augmented reality without any head gear—this is a new category, kinda. The Future Interfaces Group at Carnegie Mellon ...
AR glasses for commercial people
Google brings back Glass Introduced in 2012, with a sleek design, Google Glass was greeted with mixed responses, to say the least. You can still find the original Explorer version on eBay for as low ...
Autodesk’s slog to profitability continues
New gains in subscriptions and ARR bolster the company Autodesk had a good first quarter for their fiscal year 2018 and in fact saw several unexpected milestones. This was the last quarter overseen by the ...
Augmented Reality is already big
JPR counts over 10 million AR users worldwide. A lot of people have said augmented reality (AR) is going to be much bigger than VR, but not for several years. There’s some truth to that ...
Coming up from down under
Hovermap’s technology developed by Australia’s CSIRO enables RPAS CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization) is Australia’s national research lab with wide ranging interests including robotics, agriculture, communications, mining, and much more. Their Robotics and ...
MaterialX gets showcase at Siggraph 2017
Latest open tool for the VFX industry will standadize “look” transfer Lucasfilm and Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) have released the MaterialX Library for computer graphics. MaterialX is an open standard developed by Lucasfilm’s Advanced ...
Adobe acquire SkyBox plug-ins from Mettle
Giving its video production tools new power for VR Adobe announced the acquisition of the SkyBox plug-ins developed for Premiere and After Effects by Mettle. The SkyBox Suite of plug-ins offers transitions, titles, and effects ...
Siggraph after Siggraph after Siggraph
The shows have gotten smaller, the machines have gotten smaller, but the advances have been huge. Siggraph continues to be an enormously influential conference even as it has shrunk in physical size. In general, conference ...
Microsoft soars on the cloud
Office 365 reaches parity with traditional Office products and LinkedIn adds $1 billion in revenue Microsoft made the financial world sit up and take notice. The company reported revenue of $23.3 billion, a 13% increase ...