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‘Inside Covid-19’ brings home the virus’ effect

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 ...

FYR bug’s eye AR glasses

Traditional HMDs are bulky, power-hungry, and most of them fill only a small portion of the visual field with limited resolution. Those limitations plague every industry supplier and user in the AR and VR market, ...

Facebook reveals smart glasses: Ray-Ban stories

(Source: Facebook)   Facebook worked with Ray-Ban to design sunglasses to take photos, record video, answer phone calls, and play podcasts. You need to be a Facebook subscriber to use those services, but who isn’t ...

Portrait Displays gets embedded in projectors and chips

Portrait Displays announced a new collaboration with MediaTek that the companies say will enhance smart TV viewing experiences. MediaTek claiming to be the number one television chipset provider says it will, with Portrait Display’s help, ...

Graphisoft Building Together 2021 is a week away

The AEC industry has become more resilient, flexible, and dynamic over the past five years than seemed possible in the decade before. The pandemic has had a lot to do with it, but even before, ...

Colour.ai introduces Look Designer 2 with support for realtime game engines

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 ...

Arm and Nvidia in the news

Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang talks about the Arm deal as all but done. But the latest news reports paint a more confusing picture. If there’s one thing, this deal doesn’t exactly have its momentum. While ...

Anari—come together, over me

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 ...

AMD’s big cache exposed at Hot Chips

AMD changed the rules when it introduced its chiplet packaging approach and demonstrated it could beat Amdahl’s Law and scale-up processors. At Hot Chips 2021, they revealed a bit more about their packaging magic, and ...

What the Olympic visitors saw

Image provided by The Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games Image created with the cooperation of NTT   For the Olympics, NTT Docomo built and launched (literally and figuratively) a barge with ...

More, faster memory from Samsung

640K should be enough for anybody—said Bill Gates, apparently never.  I've said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amount of ...

Samsung asks, how smart is your memory?

(Source: Samsung)   Samsung used the 2021 Hot Chips conference, thirty-third in the series, to further reveal and promote a novel alteration of how high-speed memory could be built with AI technology. Samsung’s revelations included ...