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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 ...

HDMI 2.1 will provide headroom for 8K and more

The HDMI Forum announced the update of HDMI to 2.1 at CES. The new spec will support higher resolutions and refresh rates. It will also support advanced color spaces and dynamic HDR. Supported video resolutions ...

When you add it all up … what d’ya get?

What happens when the sharing economy, the desire for sustainability, and the standardization of hardware meets the cloud. We’re going to find out in 2017. For a hint, we can look at the software industry. ...

Did the earth move for you?

What did CES actually accomplish for you? Most of the dust has settled, most of the hangovers are over, most of the pain in your legs, and other more sensitive parts of your body has ...

Dell Canvas

A digital artist’s workstation I first saw the prototype of the Canvas over two years ago and have been waiting for Dell to officially introduce it ever since. Microsoft’s launch of its Surface Studio in ...

It’s the little things: Lenovo adds high-end flourishes to its products

Lenovo’s message is not much different from its competitors. They’re listening to what their customers want and they’re promising to innovate. And, like their competitors they’re doing a darned fine job of doing those things ...

Driving my car— wait, I’m not

Nvidia and Mercedes are taking the steering wheel away from me. CES was a triumph of announcements for Nvidia, even more so than past Nvidia press events at CES. The icing on the cake however ...

CES Themes for 2017

Millennials – yes, they’re the bulge in the belly of the snake and these people will be ruling our lives. Right now, it’s through their influence – they’re spending money, they’re having children, and they ...

DJI partners with Bentley Systems to bundle ContextCapture with Drones

Bentley Systems is flying high with ContextCapture, its product developed from technology brought in with the acquisition of photogrammetry experts Acute3D in 2015. Most recently Bentley’s Acute3D group announced an alliance with company DJI, a ...

Nvidia’s automotive CES show

CES—TVs and cars Nvidia began pursuing the automotive market as an outlet for its Tegra products in 2008, and first shipped Tegras into the Tesla Model S in 2012. One powered the 17” touch screen ...

Trimble and Umbra team up to enable Mixed Reality for BIM

Trimble announced that it is adopting technology from Umbra 3D graphics to develop mixed reality applications for BIM for its Mixed Reality Pilot program. Umbra’s technology has been widely used in games because it optimizes ...

The PC industry fights back at CES

OEMs giving customers good reasons to upgrade Over the last three years, the PC industry slammed into maturity. Gone were the dependable rising sales cycles based on nothing much more than replacing the semiconductors, updating ...