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3D Systems revenue sets quarterly record

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Randall Newton

It was the core business of selling 3D printers that drove the results, not the many recent software acquisitions. 3D ...

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Baked in silicon ray tracing on view at Siggraph

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GfxS staff

Caustic by Imagination was showing off its new accelerator board. But Nvidia’s latest high-end GPU might be as fast. Direct-to-final-render ...

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SPEC announces wide slate of new benchmarks

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Jon Peddie

This tanker doesn’t turn fast, but when it does you know it.   The last version of SPECviewperf 11, the ...

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3D Systems acquires TeamPlatform

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Randall Newton

Collaborative workspaces are the new frontier for CAD. 3D Systems now has all the fundamental pieces for its fifth growth ...

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No booth, but Adobe still at Siggraph

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Kathleen Maher

Adobe remains a significant research contributor and collaborator.    Just because Adobe didn’t have a booth at Siggraph 2013 doesn’t ...

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Fund-raising pandas and other applications for 3D sensing

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Jon Peddie

PrimeSense and Open NI are leading the next wave of 3D sensor applications.  Everybody wants in on the act. PrimeSense, ...

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Autodesk to ship Maya and 3ds Max extensions

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Randall Newton

XGen from Walt Disney Studios and Python scripting highlight new features being added for subscription customers. Next month Autodesk will ...

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Autodesk sends infrastructure development to the cloud

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Randall Newton

InfraWorks 360 Pro is collaborative glue to unify the use of BIM tools and GIS on mobile and desktop.  It ...

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The return of virtual reality

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Kathleen Maher

Oculus and Epson presented two wildly varying approaches to headset design at Siggraph 2013. By Kathleen Maher Nvidia took a ...

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Fabric Engine sees five years out

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Randall Newton

New Creation Platform allows both custom M&E tools and commercial software to work side-by-side.  Media and Entertainment technol­ogy has followed ...