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Standards merge and emerge at Siggraph 2022

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Kathleen Maher

The coming Metaverse demands industry segments, companies, standards bodies, and humans work together to define and enable interoperability. ASWF and ...

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Siggraph keynote: Seeing double—bridging dualities for humans in the metaverse

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Jon Peddie

Relational intelligence and performance artist Sougwen Chung. Sougwen Chung is an artist and engineer whose exhibitions and performances have taken ...

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Nvidia Siggraph keynote

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Jon Peddie

Welcome to the age of neurographics. Nvidia is aligning itself with the metaverse and positioning its Omniverse as the foundation ...

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Now you, too, can build your own virtual assistant

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Karen Moltenbrey

Nvidia’s Omniverse Avatar Cloud Engine makes it easier to create realistic and interactive digital humans. The metaverse is coming, and ...

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Going all in on building the metaverse with USD

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Karen Moltenbrey

Nvidia sees USD as an essential building block for Web 3.0 and there is growing agreement from partners including Pixar, ...

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NFT Worlds tries to beat Minecraft at their own game

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Tristan Perona

War is declared: After Minecraft’s crackdown on NFTs, interloper NFT Worlds pledges to go it alone. Minecraft is an industry ...

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The love/hate relationship of NFTs in Triple-A games

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Tristan Perona

Studios love ’em, players hate ’em. So far players are winning this battle, but will they win the war? Gamers ...

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Siggraph 2022 Papers make the cut

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Karen Moltenbrey

This year’s selected Technical and Art Research Papers highlight cutting-edge technology. SIGGRAPH is a venue for education and the exchange ...

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David Fincher directs his first all-animated short film

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Karen Moltenbrey

Blur Studio and Chaos enable the live-action director to bring his signature low-light look to the CG medium for a ...

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AMD’s Q2’22 results

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Jon Peddie

Revenue up 11% from last quarter to $6.6 billion, profit down 43% Q/Q. Unlike some of its competitors, AMD drove ...