I heard back from HP and they told me this: Changes are rolling out in the US first and will be rolled out subsequently in other countries. The tracking improvement is a result of hardware changes to the physical camera module on the new Reverb G2 units. These changes are not backward compatible and are only available with the purchase … Read more
HP announced that it has launched an updated version of its Reverb G2 headset in the US that brings improvements to controller tracking, eye-relief, and AMD compatibility. Alongside the headset’s improvements, there are changes to the Mixed Reality Portal software in Windows 11 with the aim to streamline the experience for SteamVR users and improve performance. When HP launched Reverb … Read more
Nvidia announced the beta version of its GeForce Now service seven years ago in October 2015. Over the years it has been collecting data, building out its server sites, and working deals with publishers—the latter, the weirdest and most difficult part of all. Nvidia has been making one helluva big investment in hardware, and personnel to launch this service, and … Read more
Qualcomm, Microsoft, Valve and some OEMs think it’s time to redefine wireless expectations for latency-sensitive gaming, productivity, and learning applications on Windows 11 PCs. They are going to do that with Qualcomm’s chip-based FastConnect systems, which enable Wi-Fi Dual Station. Wi-Fi Dual Station using Qualcomm 4-Stream Dual Band Simultaneous is a Windows 11 feature that allows multiple Wi-Fi bands … Read more
Xcelerator heads to the clouds. (Source: Cedar Fair Entertainment Company) Big news on the big industry front: Xcelerator from Siemens Industry Solutions is going to the cloud. Why? Because it makes a really great acronym: XaaS. And, more to the point, the cloud has always been Xcelerator’s logical destiny. Siemens says: “Xcelerator is an integrated portfolio of engineering software, … Read more
At Siggraph 2021, filmmakers Gary Yost and Adam Loften showed their piece Inside Covid-19, which tells the story of one man’s battle with Covid-19 as a doctor and as a patient. The documentary follows Emergency Room supervisor Dr. Josiah Child who, early in the pandemic, developed safety protocols for hospitals in Northern California, and who had a very rough ride … Read more
Color Intelligence is the brainchild of Dado Valentic, a veteran color scientist who has worked in the movie industry across the transition from film to digital. He established the MyTherapy studio as an imaging resource for the industry. He founded Color Intelligence in 2018 with Mark L. Pederson and Steve Bayes. The company had seed funding from Hedge, an investment … Read more
In November 2019, open standard API developer and harmonizing industry force, Khronos, enthralled developers and users alike with their proposed data visualization initiative to work on a cross-platform analytical rendering API. Prior to Khronos gathering the SciViz world, developers working in scientific visualization faced a chaotic, waring gaggle of awkward, conflicting, and confusing plug-ins, interfaces, and wannabe APIs. No one … Read more
The ongoing evolution of glTF has turned into one of the major efforts of the Khronos Group and it has heightened awareness of Khronos. If you don’t know, Khronos is an open consortium of interested parties who cooperate on the establishment of advanced interoperability standards. Much of their work revolves around 3D and visualization. Most recently, they have released a … Read more
Facebook introduced Horizon Workrooms, its take on the metaverse and so far it seems to have had a very hard landing. It’s never a good sign when a technology introduction gets more attention in the mainstream press than in the tech press. Worse, the press is having a field day with Facebook’s latest scheme to find relevancy for VR within social … Read more
What is the metaverse. (Source: Nvidia) Nvidia announced a significant expansion of its Omniverse simulation and collaboration platform—through new integrations with Blender and Adobe. Omniverse is now available to potentially millions of more users. The world’s leading open-source 3D animation tool, Blender, will now have Universal Scene Description (USD) support, enabling artists to access Omniverse production pipelines. Adobe collaborates … Read more
Source: SiliconArts SiliconArts is releasing a dedicated ray-tracing accelerator core into the Intel Solutions Marketplace. As an Intel Partner Alliance (IPA) Gold Member, SiliconArts is expanding its support for FPGA design services to incorporate its ray tracing IP into a dedicated IP core that can be combined with legacy GPUs to provide ray tracing to any level of graphics … Read more
