Ryzen in the oven
Naples arrives to serve AMD’s new CPU is finally here and getting “complicated” reviews. It’s not blowing Intel out of the water, but the company is delivering a very capable, low cost CPU that will ...
Imagination Technologies takes aim at VR and AR with new PowerVR Series 8 architecture.
GDC last week was stiff with VR headsets and other virtual—and augmented—reality equipment, some of which I have reported on already but there was one interesting item I have had to keep under wraps until ...
The ultimate IoT — you
UC Berkeley build implantable, dust-sized wireless sensors Telemetry from your body — is nothing private anymore? Engineers and scientists from the electrical engineering and computer sciences and a member of the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, ...
Tiny tiny things
Our lives depend on the itsy bitsy As the world of semiconductors has shrunk to nano and microscopic, our lives have gotten better. Whereas the steam and gasoline engines gave us a better standard of ...
Business Virtual Reality Will Drive VR Adoption
One of the big tech questions on everyone’s mind for 2017 is — Will business VR surpass consumer VR? Back in April of 2016, Fortune Magazine stated that by some estimates, the VR market would ...
Autodesk seeks order for its 3D toy box
In the final weeks of 2016, Autodesk announced its plans for its 123D apps. Plans that may or may not come as a surprise to people who have been watching the company. Autodesk assuredly went ...
3D now and forever
3D now and forever It never hurts to be skeptical, and after so many false starts, it’s hard to believe the crazy huge numbers predicting the success of VR and AR. So, go right on ...
Paint gets new dimensions
As part of the upcoming Windows 10 Creators Update, Microsoft plans to feed the 3D ecosystem with easy tools and free content. One of the most obvious new additions is the remodeling of an old ...
HDR Gaming gets a better view
Variable refresh meets new HDR monitors Nvidia and AMD have helped solve the conflicts between monitor refresh and game performance with their introduction of their variable refresh rate technologies GSync and Freesync, respectively. That happened ...
Choosing corners
Microsoft acquires Donya Labs, makers of Simpygon As VR and AR find their way to markets middle ware companies are finding new opportunities with the major ecosystems forming around the technology great powers: Apple, Intel, ...
Eonite software for realtime tracking
One sensor plus tablet sensors for SLAM Eonite develops middleware software to take advantage of a mobile depth cameras, inertial sensor (IMU), and RGB data for simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). The software runs on ...
Bellus3D Face Camera
As work progresses on AR, VR, 3D printing, scanning, we’re seeing more tools for creating 3D models. Bellus3D is taking on the challenge of capturing faces with a mobile camera. So far, the method we’ve ...