Resiliency due to relevance Siggraph and other shows are right-sized for the audience they serve. Allow me to elaborate. We at-tend, as visitors, and occasionally as speakers, several conferences a year (maybe as many as 40). Some are company events like IDF, DellWorld, GTC, etc., and most are industry events such as Siggraph, GDC, VRLA, etc. They all have their … Read more
http://gfxspeak.com/2016/07/27/moving-engines-center/
http://jonpeddie.com/events/details/16th-annual-jpr-luncheon-at-siggraph
The promise of so many things this year The subject of VR is getting more air time than the U.S. political candidates, which in itself isn’t a bad thing. Google is going to build a high-end VR HMD—no, wait a minute, they’re not. Steam is going to introduce a bunch of new VR games—hold on, are they? The Oculus Touch … Read more
http://jonpeddie.com/events/details/16th-annual-jpr-luncheon-at-siggraph
The human brain processes entire images in 13 milliseconds We are visual animals. Ninety percent of the information we gather about the world and ourselves is done by our visual system, and naturally, we use our vision as a model for all other systems. If you want to build a successful robot, AR device, VR system, autonomous vehicle, it has … Read more
If the first quarter is when the tech industry states its highest ambitions and fondest dreams, the second quarter is when many promises come to fruition … or not. New products promised at the end of the previous year, and in the first quarter, will start showing up on store shelves, or at least waved around in the hands of … Read more
Industry slowing to 1% growth for next few years
Subscriptions open the portals for media flow Today, Adobe is rolling out new improvements in its Creative Cloud services. Because Adobe’s products span so many creative industries — photography, graphic arts, illustration, video production, movie production, marketing, audio, and all the jobs that fit somewhere in between—these releases have a little something for everyone, but it helps if everyone is … Read more
What makes the difference where the rubber meets the road? FLOPS—Floating-point Operations Per Second is a measurement of a processor’s arithmetic processing speed and has been used since the early 1960s to evaluate and compare CPUs. FRAPS—FRAmes Per Second— is a benchmarking scheme for measuring how fast a graphics processor can update the screen. It is more commonly expressed as … Read more
Born of many fathers, VR and AR grow in popularity In doing research for my book on Augmented Reality, I realized many people were explaining AR and VR, what it is, how it works, who invented what and when. I think that is the measure of newness. No one explains today how a smartphone works, a PC or a TV … Read more
http://gfxspeak.com/2016/06/01/breaks-streaming-camera/
