A gathering of tribes What do you call a conference that combines a serious call to action from a major semiconductor company and an invitation to go navel-gazing at the Esalen institute for the incurably Californian? That would be Augmented World Expo 2017, whose target demographic seems to range from hardnosed engineers with stars in their eyes to some distinctly … Read more
By Peter McGuinness If events like CES show us the ego of the display industry, with all of its bragging about size, brightness, and who has the best curves, Display Week, presented by the Society for Information Display, gives us a glimpse of the industry’s id. This is a chance to see its deepest desires and its darkest fears: nothing … Read more
AR, VR, autonomous driving, and AI are demanding better vision Visual processing units (VPUs) are at the crossroads of image-processing, convolutional neural nets (CNN), machine intelligence, and the emerging augmented reality market. More than just an image processing algorithm co-processor, and more like a powerful subsystem that can take multiple streams of high-speed pixel data and feed a GPU for … Read more
GDC last week was stiff with VR headsets and other virtual—and augmented—reality equipment, some of which I have reported on already but there was one interesting item I have had to keep under wraps until today’s official launch date. The PowerVR team at Imagination briefed me on Furian*, which Imagination says is the first new PowerVR architecture since Rogue was … Read more
