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So, what is it going to take to deliver all-day wearable AR glasses?

AR glasses have to be as comfortable to wear as regular eyeglasses or sunglasses. (Source: eBay)   A few weeks ago, I spotted an interesting article on the long-form “medium” platform from Avi Bar-Zeev. He's been at Disney, ...

Intel benchmarks the Arc A750 against an RTX 3060

Intel has made a lot of blunders rolling out their long-awaited dGPUs and subsequent AIBs. And you still can’t really buy one. But, they have just released some fascinating DX12 and Vulkan benchmarks (they ran) ...

SPEC’s latest WS graphics benchmark

  At Siggraph 2022 in Vancouver, SPEC (Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation) announced the release of its SPECviewperf 2020 v3.1 graphics benchmark. This is a significant update to its industry-standard software for measuring graphics performance when ...

Biren Technology introduces GPU-compute chip

Zhang Wen, founder, chairman, and CEO of Biren Technology   Founded in Shanghai in 2019, Biren Technology also known as Biling Technology, counts some of China’s leading venture funds and government agencies as backers and raised ...

Intel’s GPU lineup (we think)

Ever since Intel announced it was entering the dGPU race, there has been speculation, opinion, leaks, and rumors about what the elephant in the room might look or be like. Intel didn’t make the guessing ...

Whose metaverse is it anyway?

Siggraph 2022, set in Vancouver and virtually, was filled with the usual array of beautiful and amazing images, startling new developments in processors and displays, and a myriad of other CG wonderment, in other words, ...

Khronos joins the ASWF

We may think of Siggraph as a showcase for splashy movie effects, showy content creation apps, video software, and video graphics pioneers—and it is—but off in the side rooms, over drinks and again with coffee, ...

Nvidia Siggraph keynote

Nvidia is aligning itself with the metaverse and positioning its Omniverse as the foundation for building a metaverse. It has introduced new AI tools and greatly expanded the partners and participants in its Omniverse, and ...

Siggraph keynote: Seeing double—bridging dualities for human in the metaverse

Sougwen Chung is an artist and engineer whose exhibitions and performances have taken place in galleries and museums all over the world. At Siggraph 2022 in Vancouver, she gave the keynote speech titled Seeing Double. ...

Now you, too, can build your own virtual assistant

(Source: Nvidia)   The metaverse is coming, and many are eagerly awaiting its arrival. According to Rev Lebaredian, vice president of Omniverse and simulation technology at Nvidia, three big technologies are needed to build the ...

Going all in on building the metaverse with USD

A schematic of a USD scene, which includes an entire framework and ecosystem that Nvidia and others feel is the ideal standard for 3D virtual worlds.  (Source: Nvidia) Over the decades, Siggraph has become a ...

Intel announces path guiding library and other rendering marvels

Intel recently released the Intel Open Path Guiding Library (Intel Open PGL), claiming to be the industry’s first open-source library that enables developers to easily integrate state-of-the-art path-guiding methods into their renderers. That may be ...