Ease of use, price, and one-stop shopping Now that Oculus has revealed its consumer version of the Rift HMD, consumers can start planning how they might engage with VR, and they have a choice—a DIY rig with a PC and Rift, or a turn-key system with Sony. Sony’s HMD will be about 30% less expensive than the Oculus HDM. And … Read more
Too early to call it DOA, but definitely among the walking wounded The good news and bad about being a first mover is everyone looks to you as a bellwether—the leading sheep of a flock. As reported elsewhere in this issue, Facebook’s CEO and founder—and Luckey Palmer’s patron saint—Mark Zuckerberg, was asked during Facebook Q4 2015 earnings call whether he … Read more
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At the J.P. Morgan's 14th Annual Tech Forum at the 2016 International CES. presented January 6th, 2016, Gregory Bryant, Intel’s new vice president and general manager of desktop clients platform was interviewed. As a result of that interview, a slew of stories appeared over the following days with headlines like this: Mainstream gamers no longer require discrete GPUs, says Intel … Read more
Cambridge Flow Solutions (CFS) and International TechneGroup Limited (ITI) have been awarded a three-year R&D grant award from the UK Government to support development of advanced geometry processing and automated meshing solutions for aerospace. Through the AuGMENT project grant, ITI and CFS will engage in R&D work to develop advanced tools for Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) geometry preparation and meshing … Read more
I have, and may continue to, ridicule the idea of people voluntarily spending long periods of time in a VR HMD. Military, surgeons, and welders do it because they have to, but otherwise it’s a form of torture. But, let’s look at some of that criticism … One of the criticisms of VR is that the engulfing HMD does its … Read more
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Where people actually pay to be tortured Last year more than 176,000 visitors came to Las Vegas (population 600,000) to stand in line waiting for taxis, food, and a chance to peek at gadgets of all sizes, shapes, colors, and prices. In addition to those 176,000, more than 10,000 taxis were brought in; hotel, restaurant, and shops increased their staff … Read more
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For universal consumer use, there are still some obstacles AR, like VR, is and has been, used for industrial, military, and scientific applications in controlled environments, and by professionals who understand and tolerate the technologies’ limitations (while simultaneously helping to improve it). The problem with our industry is that when an interesting technology like AR, VR, or neural gaming gets … Read more
The company embraces open source with game library and register data AMD plans to give developers unprecedented access to the innards of its GPUs next year, when it launches its GPUOpen initiative. AMD is the only company that can claim a clean sweep across gaming platforms, from desktops, notebooks, to all the consoles, and even a few dedicated pachinko machines. … Read more
