Is Unity going public?
Game engine company Unity Technologies is flirting with the idea of going public, which could happen with an Initial Public Offer (IPO) this fall. The company has been testing the waters and is reported to ...
Khronos gets vectorized, introduces OpenVG Lite
Before there were raster-scan TV-like screens on computers, we had vectorscopes, also known as stroke writers and calligraphic screens. They drew straight lines, one at a time, and were used for early warning systems, FAA ...
Autodesk’s First quarter fiscal 2021 financial highlights
Autodesk has come through its first quarter with good results and the company expressed satisfaction, revealing very little trepidation over the future. The company raised revenue 20% to $886 million and reported a net income ...
Vectorworks looks ahead
(Source: Vectorworks) One of the side benefits of the Coronavirus lockdown is that we now get an inside look at people’s offices. Biplab Sarkar, the CEO of Vectorworks, presented his keynote for the Vectorworks ...
AMD shipped a lot of GPUs
When AMD scored a double hit by winning the Xbox and the PlayStation console projects the number of GPUs the company shipped from 2013 on took a jump. As their APU sales increased (partially due ...
31-inch volumetric holographic display
Looking Glass Factory has expanded its product line and is now offering a 31-inch, 8K (33.2 million pixels) display, a 45-view horizontal-only. This is the third and latest development in the company’s 3D volumetric display ...
Smell-O-Mersion 2020
Smell-O-Vision was a system that released odor during the projection of a film so that the viewer could “smell” what was happening in the movie. The technique was created by Hans Laube and made its ...
Under performing VR market gets new vendor
Taipei-based XRSpace says its single goal is to take XR to the masses by redefining how people connect, socialize, and collaborate in the virtual world. The company claims it enables consumers to socialize, work and ...
Omniverse—work anywhere, in any program, with your colleagues
Don’t lose your marbles It hasn’t been too many years since the siloed effects of specialists in the graphics production pipeline drove up a studio or company’s costs, and delayed projects because they used ...
Construction transformed in 2020
Big projects need big solutions: AECOM stays with the plan for its infrastructure projects with the help of established BIM practices at the company. (Source: AECOM) There probably is no good time for a ...
Arm Mali-G78 GPU
Arm introduced their latest SoC IP design, the Mali-G78, and claims that the GPU offers 25% better performance as a result of architectural, process, and other improvements compared to the old Mali-G77 2019 devices. The Mali G78 offers support ...
Nvidia’s Q1 FY21 results
Nvidia beat Wall Street’s expectations with their financial report and saw increases from all reporting segments. Revenue for the first quarter was $3.08 billion, up 39%from $2.22 billion a year earlier, and down 1% from ...