Kathleen Maher

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Light Field Lab raises $7 million and plans to change video forever

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Kathleen Maher

Lytro vets form Light Field Lab and promise holographic displays. The company says they are now working on prototypes.

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Facebook introduces DIY VR for Quill

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Kathleen Maher

Facebook updates Quill with animation tools. Art director Goro Fujita demonstrates the potential.

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Solidworks xDesign gets closer to release; will customers accept it?

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Kathleen Maher

Entering into public beta this year, xDesign is being considered as a bridge from Solidworks to 3DExperience.  Solidworks CEO Gian ...

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Epic Games acquires Cloudgine

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Kathleen Maher

Cloudgine technology will give developers working in Unreal the ability to offload compute jobs to cloud processing.   Epic is adding on ...

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HP delivers on the promise of voxel-level control, full color

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Kathleen Maher

HP’s newest Jet Fusion printers are faster, smaller, and less expensive. At Solidworks World 2018, HP introduced its newest printers ...

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Spheres, VR series hits paydirt at Sundance

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Kathleen Maher

The three-part VR series Spheres; Songs of Spacetime has sold for a reported “seven figures” to CityLights The film was directed by Eliza McNitt, a 26-year-old VR director whose first VR experience, A Fistful of Stars, showed at SXSW.

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Local Motors rejiggers the model

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Kathleen Maher

Launch Forth community gets Solid Edge. The Local Motors concept has borne fruit with several vehicles and a very active ...

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Stingray swims away

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Kathleen Maher

Autodesk abandons Stingray noting its customers have opted for products like Unity and Unreal in their content creation pipelines. Autodesk inks deal with Unity.

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Does the demise of TechShop (maybe) spell doom for makers?

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Kathleen Maher

The grass roots of the maker movement are green and flourishing. TechShop, a franchise of fabrication storefronts, founded by Jim ...

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Apple builds foundation for growth

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Kathleen Maher

Looking back at a year of Apple's financial performance. The company stays on course, to an almost boring extent, unless you're getting dividends, then it's all pretty exciting.