Imagination launches IMG A-Series
Imagination Technologies announced the tenth generation of its PowerVR graphics architecture, the IMG A-Series.
Imagination launches IMG A-Series
Imagination Technologies announced the tenth generation of its PowerVR graphics architecture, the IMG A-Series. Claiming its IMG A-Series is the fastest GPU IP ever released, the company says it is designed to be The GPU of Everything, citing multiple markets, from automotive, AIoT, and computing through to DTV/STB/OTT, mobile and server. The IMG A-Series has a multi-dimensional approach to performance … Read more
Any 3D application available anywhere, anytime, on any device—through Unity
OnLive is often credited with being the first commercial service, in 2010 to offer streaming gaming, or what is called Cloud-gaming by some. But in 2000, Finnish cloud gaming provider G-cluster demonstrated cloud gaming technology at E3. In 2004, SoftBank bought the company. A year later, Crytek began the research on a cloud gaming system or Crysis, but halted … Read more
Imagination Technologies SYCLs TF with Codeplay and you can too
TensorFlow is a free and open-source software library for dataflow and differentiable programming across a range of tasks. It is a symbolic math library and is also used for machine learning applications such as neural networks—i.e., finding cats. Imagination Technologies designs GPUs and sells the designs in the form of IP libraries allowing anyone with access to a fab to … Read more
He’s Baccckkkk—Mr. Aug, Virt, and X-reality Ben Delaney returns
Father of CyberEdge Journal and the first VR conferences
He’s Baccckkkk—Mr. Aug, Virt, and X-reality Ben Delaney returns
I first met Mr. Delaney in 1990, I think, when I was trying to figure out if virtual reality would ever get out of the military labs and into consumer’s or, at least, industry’s hands. Ben was convinced it would and made it his life’s passion, and effort to ensure it did. He had a few imitators, but no one … Read more
Arm’s new Valhall-based Mali-G57
Arm has expanded its Mali graphics portfolio with its new G57 GPU. Targeted at the mainstream market. Mali-G57 is Arm’s first mainstream GPU based on the new Valhall architecture, following the premium Mali-G77 GPU launched back in May this year. The G77 is targeted at the premium mobile market. Arm says the Mali-G57 enables a number of features not traditionally … Read more
Ang Lee makes his stand for 3D
The International Broadcast Conference (IBC) in Amsterdam is about what to see and how to see it and much of what we ran into was cinema: new cinema, big cinema, and great big screens for the small screen, i.e., TV. He’s big in China: Will Smith is Gemini Man, a character who is forced to confront his younger, faster, cloned … Read more
All VR headsets are not the same
Extensive testing by Mark Poppin reveals the differences
Insomniac Studios joins Sony Interactive
Spiderman to Stormland exclusive PS4-5 titles now
Accelerating AR/VR: Kronos releases OpenXR
With growing adoption from XR industry and expanding ecosystem support, Khronos has released an advanced acceleration standard, OpenXR 1.0. It comes with publicly available implementations and substantial ecosystem momentum. OpenXR is a unifying, royalty-free, open standard that provides high-performance, cross-platform access to VR and AR—collectively known as XR—platforms and devices. The new specification can be found on the Khronos website … Read more
Virtual cameras meld digital effects and live action
What’s more fundamental to the act of making a movie than the camera? It’s the camera that defines a movie and separates it from a play and as camera technology has changed over the years, they’ve changed the art of movies. When first used to make movies, cameras were fixed—they were giant things that stayed put and captured longish takes … Read more