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From 3m to 30 Suns: see how spaceships stack up in the world

If you’ve ever watched a science fiction movie or TV show, you’ve seen the fabulous space ships the artists have created. Some of them have become icons like the Star Trek Enterprise, or the Star ...

Google doubles down on Stadia; expands its catalog

It’s a big season for gaming news. As it turns out, pandemic season is always a big season for gaming news. Google, not always the most communicative of companies, has made an impressive effort to ...

Nvidia introduces the RTX A6000 WS AIB

(Source: KPF. Beijing Century City)   As mentioned in my Siggraph blog, the coronavirus pandemic has shifted the way content is created and consumed. Work now often involves teams dispersed worldwide, working remotely on high-resolution ...

Nvidia kicks off GTC Fall

Nvidia and its founder, CEO Jensen Huang, deserve credit for building and delivering an astounding blivit. A blivit for those new to this channel is 5 pounds of stuff in a 10-pound bag. In the ...

Epic’s Unreal Engine is almost…

(Source: Epic)   I have been trying to write about Epic’s new Unreal Engine 5 since they announced it in May. Every time I do, I am awestruck by the visuals, and mind-boggled trying to ...

Platform alliance between Nvidia and VMware

Nvidia announced a partnership with VMware. The companies plan to deliver an end-to-end platform for AI in the enterprise and new architecture. The architecture says Nvidia can be used for data centers, cloud, and edge ...

Google gives up on VR

So long Daydream, you didn’t even flash in your own pan. (Source: Google)   Google came up with a great name and a great industrial design for the Daydream, its entry into VR for the ...

Pixel™

Pixels™, from rock groups to clothing, to pinpoints of light, they have been an intrinsic part of our life, vocabulary, and concept since the 1800s. Alas no longer may we use it with abandon, it ...

The Genesis of Hyper-Converged Infrastructure

In the first decade, the technology gods separated the data and the code and invented the mainframe. It was expensive to install, complicated to operate and did not have much software. Then the technology gods ...

The Dragon snapped up Oculus 2

The Oculus Quest 2 is the latest result of years of collaboration between Qualcomm and Facebook to offer an immersive self-contained gaming VR device for consumers. Qualcomm’s contribution is its Snapdragon XR2 Platform and the ...

The levels of ray tracing

With ray tracing becoming increasingly important for a wide range of graphics applications, Imagination Technologies has developed a Ray Tracing Level System to give developers and OEMs an insight into the capability of solutions for ray ...

A new GPU architecture proposed

The traditional 3D graphics pipeline is now 60 years old—is it time to reimagine how 3D graphics should be processed and displayed? In pursuit of greater display acuity, pixel densities are increasing in spatial resolution ...