Kathleen Maher

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Corel upgrades VideoStudio, Pinnacle, and Painter

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Kathleen Maher

Corel has found its niche with serious consumers and professionals who are not paid to be visual creatives. New ParticleShop ...

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Virtual Reality develops as a medium at Oculus Connect 2

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Kathleen Maher

New introductions, new content take VR beyond novelty. By Kathleen Maher VR is coming! VR is coming! and Oculus hopes ...

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PTC to Acquire Qualcomm’s Vuforia Augmented Reality technology

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Kathleen Maher

Qualcomm announces the sale of its AR subsidiary Vuforia to PTC. Most see this as a move to raise value and placate restive investors who are seeking the breakup of Qualcomm. The acquisition will help PTC build its IoT division.

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Fighting for the creative

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Kathleen Maher

With over 5 million subscribers Adobe's user base represents an attractive target market for tablet and PC makers. Apple and Microsoft are both taking aim.

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SolidWorks unveils 2016 version

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Kathleen Maher

SolidWorks 2016 emphasizes efficiency and new modern workflows.

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Usens extends its virtual reality hardware line

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Kathleen Maher

  Super Reality blurs the distinction between augmented and virtual. The two-year-old company Usens walked away with being named a ...

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Qualcomm shows off real-time facial animation

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Kathleen Maher

High-res, high-color, high-speed and in your pocket. At Siggraph Qualcomm had a quiet display of a lady’s face expressing happiness, ...

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Major content creation players dominate Siggraph

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Kathleen Maher

Introductions from The Foundry, Autodesk, and Pixar set the agenda. The content creation companies at Siggraph this year had simple ...

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Putting pieces together at Siggraph 2015

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Kathleen Maher

  Competitors come together at the JPR luncheon with standards and cooperation at customers’ behest.  By Kathleen Maher   Siggraph ...

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AMD’s R9 Nano arrives and lives up to the hype

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Kathleen Maher

Introduced at E3 the AMD Radeon R9 Nano graphics board is well worth the wait. JPR testing shows the Radeon stacking up well against similar products.