Secures funding to help expand its headsets and Varjo Reality Cloud, their XR streaming platform announced in April. Varjo, a producer of high-end virtual reality (VR) hardware, has acquired $40 million in funds to expand the Varjo Reality Cloud. Their service is a platform that allows off-site compute power and GPUs to do the heavy lifting and streaming of the content. … [Read more...] about Varjo is serious about the industrial metaverse
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The metaverse, today’s white whale
Questions (and answers) abound, but many are antithetical at this point. What is the metaverse? If you ask 10 people, you are more likely than not to get 10 different answers. There is no metaverse—there will never be a metaverse. There are dozens of metaverses and soon probably hundreds. Which view you hold depends on the definition of what a metaverse is, and we … [Read more...] about The metaverse, today’s white whale
Nvidia Siggraph keynote
Welcome to the age of neurographics. Nvidia is aligning itself with the metaverse and positioning its Omniverse as the foundation for building a metaverse. It has introduced new AI tools and greatly expanded the partners and participants in its Omniverse, and is offering various open source software tools for the Omniverse, and they are calling it all … [Read more...] about Nvidia Siggraph keynote
Now you, too, can build your own virtual assistant
Nvidia’s Omniverse Avatar Cloud Engine makes it easier to create realistic and interactive digital humans. The metaverse is coming, and many are eagerly awaiting its arrival. According to Rev Lebaredian, vice president of Omniverse and simulation technology at Nvidia, three big technologies are needed to build the metaverse: neural graphics, an investment in USD, and … [Read more...] about Now you, too, can build your own virtual assistant
Going all in on building the metaverse with USD
Nvidia sees USD as an essential building block for Web 3.0 and there is growing agreement from partners including Pixar, USD’s original developer, and Autodesk, Adobe, Siemens, and more. Over the decades, Siggraph has become a significant venue for the computer graphics community and has established itself within the history of computer science. It is a place where the … [Read more...] about Going all in on building the metaverse with USD
NFT Worlds tries to beat Minecraft at their own game
War is declared: After Minecraft’s crackdown on NFTs, interloper NFT Worlds pledges to go it alone. Minecraft is an industry titan. Developed by Mojang Studios in 2009 and acquired by Microsoft in 2014, Minecraft is the best-selling game in the world, and it continues to get stronger. Estimates put the total population of active Minecraft players at 141 million, and … [Read more...] about NFT Worlds tries to beat Minecraft at their own game
VIEW Conference spotlights metaverse and virtual production, adds more speakers
The global event on computer graphics is shaping up nicely with yet another impressive lineup that is expected to expand further prior to the October conference. Turin, Italy, is known for its rich history as well as its current thriving economy. It is also known for its VIEW Conference, which has been growing and expanding since it began in 2000. Initially called … [Read more...] about VIEW Conference spotlights metaverse and virtual production, adds more speakers
Big plans for the metaverse
Will the vision be fulfilled? Today’s big buzzword is the metaverse, which, as most people know, originated with Stephenson’s epic Snow Crash in 1992. A popular second novel, Ready Player One, by Ernest Cline in 2011, and a subsequent movie in 2018, plus the famous Matrix movie of 1999, provided a visualization of the concept of a connected virtual world. But fiction is … [Read more...] about Big plans for the metaverse
Khronos hopes to help enable the metaverse
Whatever that is. Khronos has formed a forum to create a venue for cooperation between standards organizations and companies to foster the development of interoperability standards for an open and inclusive metaverse. The organizations do not want to create any standards, unless the industry specifically asks them to, but rather to make sure that all its members are … [Read more...] about Khronos hopes to help enable the metaverse
The evolving world of 3D
It's all about your phone. By Omid Rahmat Who loses and who gains when consumers get access to vast libraries of content for a minimum monthly fee or because they are willing to put up with ads? If you ask musicians, they may have a case for decrying the subscription economy for reducing their opportunity to make money and turning them all into data analysts as they … [Read more...] about The evolving world of 3D