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Adobe expands Substance 3D

Substance 3D Modeler interprets spatial input from the physical world, enabling users to sculpt a model intuitively. (Source: Adobe)  Adobe was busy recently, announcing several updates to various products. Many of those pertain to the ...

Nvidia jazzed over new research

Nvidia Research is striking a chord with its work on an inverse rendering pipeline. (Source: Nvidia)   Nvidia is certainly getting into the swing of things at the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition ...

Personalized viewing ready for takeoff

A personalized message that only you can see at the airport. (Source: Delta)   It's four years since Display Daily published an article (subscription required for viewing) that set out the ideas from Misapplied Sciences ...

Lenovo’s P360 Ultra small form factor workstation

Brooks Flynn, director, Product Management, Lenovo   Lenovo has introduced a new small form factor workstation that could easily hide behind your monitor. You wouldn’t put it there because you were ashamed of it; because ...

Khronos hopes to help enable the metaverse

Khronos has formed a forum to create a venue for cooperation between standards organizations and companies to foster the development of interoperability standards for an open and inclusive metaverse. The organizations do not want to ...

Taking control: Part 2 Game controllers advance to meet the needs of advanced consoles and players

  In Part 1  of this article, we discussed the Magnavox Odyssey and watched as Atari, Sega, and Nintendo rose to make their marks on the gaming industry. In Part 2, we will see a ...

Taking control: Part 1 Controllers evolve with gamers

(Source: Reviewed)   Time changes all things, and video games are no exception. The gaming industry has been transforming ever since its inception, starting with simple pixels passing another pixel back and forth, to experiences ...

A380 is an Intel AIB, not an obsolete airplane

An A380 drops an A380 on China   Intel introduces Arc A380, its first (of three) desktop AIBs based on its Xe-HPG architecture. The A380 has 8 Xe-Cores, which is the full configuration of the ...

AMD has scale

AMD had an in-person and virtual analyst’s day event in beautiful Santa Clara and introduced their new lineup of senior staff, which now includes executives from Xilinx and Pensando. This was the first physical get-together ...

More human than ever

(Source: Epic Games)   A little over a year ago, Epic Games revolutionized the creation of realistic humans with its free MetaHuman Creator browser-based app, which reduced the time it takes to generate a photorealistic ...

An on-chip photonic deep neural network for image classification

(Source: Tima Miroshnichenko)   Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have developed an optical chip that can process almost 1.7 billion images per second. It uses a neural network that processes visual information directly without ...

Apple em two et vous?

Now that your armpits and other areas have dried out from the excitement of Apple’s M1 Pro/Max announcements eight months ago, the company thought it was time to raise your heart rate again. Enter M2. ...