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Varjo’s optical engine shows just what you need

Better vision in VR Helsinki-based Varjo was founded 10 months ago by a group of ex-Microsoft, -Intel, and -Nvidia engineers; folks from University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics in St. Petersburg; plus a few ...

NASA uses 3D scanners in VR

NASA’s hybrid reality astronaut training system uses 3D scanners NASA established Hybrid Reality Lab in late 2015 based on Unreal Engine 4 and incorporating consumergrade VR, physical mockups and models, wearable technologies, and roomscale technology ...

Seeding the market; Chaos Group offers V-Ray SDK

Chaos Group, one of the most powerful contenders in the ray tracing sweepstakes is offering its SDK for developers who wish to add rendering to their applications. The V-Ray Application SDK includes a high-level API, ...

Meta Introduces AR Workspace

Meta is a big kauna in the San Jose AWE community, they have a big impact at the show. This year, Meta CEO Meron Gribetz's keynote revealed the company's Meta Workspace, an AR operating system. ...

Of Holograms and Light Fields

Leia comes to Display Week with a new approach for naked-eye 3D displays No conference on display technology is complete without some mention of holographic or some other variety of volumetric displays and Display Week ...

This market is big enough for the few of us

Intel warns expansionists to stay out of the garden It’s one thing to expand the PC market, and something else again to expand the Windows market. PC to Intel means x86. An x86 can run ...

The perils of Jeffrey Immelt and his ilk

GE former CEO finds changing course is a lot harder than running the company; so is weathering investor impatience The news of Jeff Immelt’s replacement as CEO got me thinking about these dark days for CEOs. ...

Augmented Reality Expo 2017

A gathering of tribes What do you call a conference that combines a serious call to action from a major semiconductor company and an invitation to go navel-gazing at the Esalen institute for the incurably ...

Augmented reality will make us fearless

Our lives will be different beyond imagination with AR When consumer smart glasses become common, my forecast is 2020, they will change how we behave, and how the world behaves toward us. When you examine ...

Intel and AMD head to head at Computex

Giant CPUs and big plans There was a bit more of a showdown between AMD and Intel this year as AMD has got new products to put up against Intel in addition to a compelling ...

Toward better house music

Qualcomm introduces new audio products At Qualcomm Technologies Inernational voice and music developer conference in Shenzhen, China, the company introduced a new Qualcomm Smart Audio Platform, which will enable the development of smart, net-worked speakers. ...

ARM’s Mali-Cetus display processor

ARM’s latest video processor, Mali-V61, announced ahead of launch As greater demands are made on the CPU and GPU in a mobile device, the display processor can be used to offload those programmable processors to ...