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AR future: holographic near-eye displays in regular-sized glasses

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Ruchika Saini

Microsoft’s new lightweight prototype display comes with trade-offs. Recently, a group of industry and academic researchers met at the SCIEN Workshop ...

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Redway3D unveils REDsdk 4.3 visualization toolkit

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Randall Newton

The update sports new ray-tracing solutions, post-processing effects, as well as cloud-and-sky rendering. REDsdk is a C++ graphics visualization toolkit ...

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Chaos Group launches V-Ray 3 for Rhino

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Randall Newton

The graphical toolkits favored by Hollywood are now available to the architects, industrial designers, and other Rhino users. Earlier this ...

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Arnold earns an Academy SciTech award

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Randall Newton

The “brute force” renderer has been used a wide variety of films. The Arnold renderer, published by the recently acquired ...

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Four-armed robot gives ad agency a technology advantage

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Randall Newton

Robic has four fully programmable arms that move cameras over 100 miles per hour for shots at 2,500 frames per ...

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New JPR white paper explores the future of GPUs

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Randall Newton

The astronomical growth in computation graphics technology has created new opportunities far removed from the original objectives. The market for ...

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ImmersaCAD brings virtual reality to architecture without the puke factor

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Randall Newton

Avoiding virtual reality motion sickness was a key criteria for the development team. A startup with years of experience in ...

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Keyshot update enhances 3D CAD support

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Randall Newton

Luxion still betting on CPU processing power in a field becoming dominated by GPU rendering. The most recent revision of ...

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AMD Radeon software update includes real-time game play record/playback

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Randall Newton

Other new graphics tools include virtual reality stitching, power consumption control tied to frame rate, and performance boosts for professional ...

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New Pantone file format stores complex appearance data for 3D design

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Randall Newton

Autodesk, Luxion, and Nvidia are supporting the new AxF format in selected products.   A name synonymous with professional use ...