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Is this the year of the MR headsets?

Don’t place your bets on AR/VR/XR quite yet, as that goal is far from reality, especially as players like Sony, Apple, Microsoft, HP, Meta, and HTC face bumps in the road.

Here’s looking at you

The 1.4 patch for Nvidia Broadcast includes an AI-powered feature to edit recordings in real time so you always make eye contact.

The quest for cheap augmented reality

AR is becoming more mainstream, and more companies are hopping on the bandwagon. So, what’s the least expensive way to experience it?

Alienware and Dell level up their gaming laptops

These are not the laptops of yesterday.

AMD’s Q4’22 and FY’22 results

Q4 revenue up 16% on data center sales, profits down 98%, Q1’23 forecast soft.

Intel Q4 2022 and FY 2022 financial results

Sales down, forecast down; Q4 revenue $14.0 billion, down 32% YoY.

Video victory inside Vulkan, voilà

Validation layers for accelerated H.264 and H.265 decode.

LetinAR’s micro-mirror AR lenses

Segmented and reflecting bits of light to reduce size.

The big boy’s board—80GB Nvidia A100 AIB for $12.4K

If you have to ask, you can’t afford it.

Consumer AR smart glasses are almost here

Some may already have arrived.

CoreWeave acquires Conductor

It’s a whole new world for cloud rendering in the M&E industry and elsewhere.

Loongson Zhongke 2K2000 SOC tape-out

Company plans launch later in the year.