2023: A big year ahead for AR/VR headsets
New products to hit the market, pushing global shipments of AR/VR devices next year and making up for the dip in 2022.
Get real: RealityScan iOS app now available
Re-creating reality models from photos is free and easy—just pick up your phone.
Manipulate Maya character rigs with real-time physics in seconds
Imbalance Ragdoll Dynamics 3.0 produces results that are faster and more complete—up to 100× faster, the company says.
Update eases MetaHuman sharing, enables gene editing
New MetaHuman version from Epic makes it easier to share creations and edit the unique characters’ DNA files.
How far will legacy take the PC industry?
The shift to the cloud is a declining asymptote for the PC.
AIB unit sales continue to slide in Q3’22, see first Y-Y decline since the pandemic
Quarter-to-quarter graphics add-in board shipments decreased significantly by -33.5% and by -31.9% year to year.
Krakatoa MY and XMesh MY open source, oh my!
AWS renders the two Autodesk Maya plug-ins open source after making them free a few months ago.
Keep the faith on the metaverse
So says a VR developer who, despite Meta’s challenges, believes the metaverse’s time will come.
DaVinci Resolve gets push to version 18.1
Blackmagic Design’s latest update includes support for vertical resolution and the DaVinci Neural Engine.
Nvidia part of team to win a Bell Prize for Covid-19 mutation prediction
The groundbreaking work in predicting new virus variants entailed the application of large language models to gene sequences.
Unreal Engine 5.1 releases with major improvements to lighting
The newest update to Epic’s Unreal Engine adds many new features, including some to the Lumen system and animation.
Sony is rejoining the VR royale with the PS VR2
The VR headset market is ready for a shake-up, and Sony is among those expected to enter the ring with its new offering early next year.