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Compact AR display uses Trixel 3 LBS projector

TriLite, based in Vienna, Austria, and founded in 2011, has developed the Trixel 3, which the company claims is the world’s smallest projection display. But the projector is only part of the solution; you need ...

Tiling tensor cores superscales video at Imagination

Imagination Technologies marries its Tensor Tiling technology with Visidon’s AI algorithms to achieve fast, economical video scaling. (Source: Imagination Technologies)   Superscaling, as it is referred to now, is not a new idea or technique. ...

AMD’s FidelityFX Super Resolution 2.0 is a game changer

FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) 2.0 technology is AMD’s brand-new, open-source temporal upscaling solution. It employs temporal algorithms to reconstruct fine geometric and texture detail, producing anti-aliased output from aliased input. FSR 2.0, says AMD, has ...

Acer refreshes its SpatialLabs S3D display

Acer announced its stereovision S3D capability last year and launched the 15.6-inch ConceptD 7 SpatialLabs Edition laptop targeted at visual artists and engineers. The $4,100 laptop didn’t set the world on fire and fell into ...

DragonFly 3.0 takes off

Glassbox Technologies is taking the sting out of the complex process of virtual productions, releasing a major update to its cross-platform virtual camera software, Dragonfly, with new camera simulation functionality and features that further streamline ...

Lenovo powers up the latest ThinkPad P series mobile workstation

The ThinkPad P16 mobile workstation is Lenovo’s all-new power offering, delivering the highest levels of support of any ThinkPad P series mobile workstation. Inside is a new class of Intel Core processors with support for ...

Zoey—the newest face of AI

Zoey, the fresh new face of real-time photorealistic autonomous digital humans from the DHG at Digital Domain.   She’s been gifted with brains and beauty. Zoey is personable, funny, smart, a great conversationalist, speaks multiple ...

PTC acquires Intland to strengthen its ALM portfolio

PTC has acquired Intland Software, an application lifecycle management (ALM) company headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany, for approximately $280 million. Intland Software develops the Codebeamer ALM family of products, which includes a next-generation, cloud-based offering that ...

AIB price inflation on the horizon

With COVID, speculators, and mining behind us, we have seen an expected drop in gouged pricing in the channel. The big three—AMD, Intel, and Nvidia (AIN)—may have to reverse that. High-end AIB retail prices over ...

Intel arcs into notebooks

Intel has had to delay the launch of its Arc dGPUs due to “some software readiness delays, and together with COVID lockdowns impacting global supply chains, OEM designs are only this month becoming more widely ...

AMD introduces trio of new add-in boards for the 6000 series

Today AMD is rolling out three new add-in boards that will round out its 6000 series family. There will be one new board for each market segment. AMD reports that there are 3 billion gamers ...

Real-time ray tracing in AR from Snap

Last week at Snap’s partner summit, the company showed its next-gen AR glasses with a special feature—real-time ray tracing. It was difficult to figure out where the Nvidia RTX graphics AIB was, and that was ...