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Government-funded fragging headed to Fan Expo Canada

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A Battlefield 3 tournament is part of ongoing research into best practices for immersive 3D gaming. Research into stereoscopic 3D ...

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Multicore taking the film industry back to the future

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Panelists at the Jon Peddie Research Siggraph press luncheon found much to cheer about in the rise of powerful multicore ...

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Video: Jon Peddie on GPUs and CAD industry

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When CPUs went from faster to wider and GPUs became parallel processors, CAD vendors were caught in a bind. At ...

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Autodesk developing virtual production with James Cameron and Weta Digital

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The goal is to commercialize the workflows behind Avatar and the Lord of the Rings series. Autodesk built the biggest ...

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Rightware introduces OpenGL ES 3.0 benchmark

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OpenGL ES is becoming a graphics standard in mobile devices. The new benchmark will give manufacturers and software developers an ...

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ZBrush interim release feels like major update

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A variety of new tools keep the venerable 3D art tool at the forefront. Pixologic used Siggraph 2012 in Los ...

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Graphics chip shipments up 5.5% on Intel gains

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Sequentially the market grew 2.5%, predicting slight growth ahead for PC market. Graphics chip shipments were up 5.5% in the ...

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Luxion debuts 3D web technologies at Siggraph

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KeyShot extended with Web service rendering and 3D interactive web display. Rendering technology expert Luxion introduced two new 3D web ...

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Haiku Deck reinvents presentation software for the iPad era

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The first business idea failed, but it had a great pitch deck, so the team refocused on presentations.   New ...

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Caustic brings interactive ray tracing to Maya

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Caustic Visualizer allows high fidelity views at the earliest project stages. A Rhino version already exists and a 3ds Max ...