For many of us, 2020 has proven disruptive. At the start of the year, the Blender organization was ready to run a series of workshops for core Blender contributors, a conference in LA, and many other activities. All of these were cancelled or put on hold. Luckily, Blender is still a virtual organization managed publicly[…..] […]
cineSync’s April update introduces 360/latlong video review, animation ghosting, and a host of improvements for even more effective desktop-based media review. Stockholm, 22 April 2021 — The April 2021 update of cineSync, ftrack’s Academy Award- and Emmy-winning desktop-based media review solution, is now available. cineSync’s update introduces 360 video review, animation ghosting, and various improvements[…..] […]
New Feature: Player Data The team of Skillz were pleased to announce their latest feature for empowering developer creativity and maximizing player engagement is now live. With the new Player Data APIs, you can persist any information they choose across sessions and devices. You’ll be able to reward players for great gameplay and encourage them[…..] […]
Working with huge datasets with VR-Plugin and Autodesk Maya 2022 and Pixar USD Thank you all for your great feedback. VR-Plugin 6.0 Professional is LIVE! We are glad to present you a stable and highly optimized experience for Virtual Reality production techniques. VR-Plugin is written in the most native Mayan way. Our customers are surprised,[…..] […]
Version 2.5 of LuxCoreRenderer has been released. The new version adds OptiX/RTX acceleration, non-uniform camera bokeh, new AOVs, randomised texture tiling and rotation, translation and scale. Also included are several new textures such as a wireframe map, a distort map, a brick texture capable of pseudo randomising colours per brick, a texture bombing map capable[…..] […]
In our series Tools Of The Trade, industry artists and filmmakers speak about their preferred tool on a recent project — be it a digital or physical tool, new or old, deluxe or dirt-cheap. This week, we speak to Larry Cutler about Unity. Cutler is co-founder and CTO of Baobab Studios, the multi-Emmy-winning vr producer.[…..] […]
Creating truly convincing digital humans is hard. It takes a huge amount of time, effort, and skill, not to mention costly equipment and staff. There have been some great examples running in Unreal Engine over the past few years, from fictional characters like Senua and Siren, to digital copies of Andy Serkis and Mike Seymour.[…..] […]
LG will shut down smartphone business in July to focus on smart home, robotics It’s the end of an era for the one-time phone giant, which has struggled to compete with Apple, Samsung and Chinese brands. LG on Sunday became the latest legacy phone-maker to exit “the incredibly competitive mobile phone sector” as it struggles[…..] […]
A new report from Bloomberg says Nintendo’s next Switch, or Switch Pro as it’s been dubbed, will house a new Nvidia chip with DLSS capabilities, meaning some games could be played in 4K when docked. Modern gaming GPUs aren’t efficient enough to drive AAA titles at native 4K on handheld power budgets, so it[…..] […]
A SigOpt engineer works on next-generation software for deep learning. (Credit: SigOpt) What’s New: A new report from analyst fiarm Kisaco Research positions SigOpt, an Intel company, as a leader in artificial intelligence (AI) software acceleration, due to the quality of its optimization platform, breadth of its market penetration and strength of its go-to-market strategy.[…..] […]
