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.[…..] […]
AR tool for collaboration will enrich Unity Reflect. Unity has been having very good success with developing business in AEC. The company started with a partnership with Autodesk for Unity Reflect, which enables companies to bring their BIM models into Unity to create interactive applications. And, in the process of building Reflect, Unity has discovered[…..] […]
Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) announced the worldwide availability of Autodesk Takeoff, a new product that empowers estimators to perform 2D and 3D quantification workflows from a common data environment to increase collaboration, speed and accuracy during the estimation process. Originally announced at Autodesk University in November 2020, Autodesk Takeoff will join Autodesk Build and Autodesk[…..] […]
