June 5, 2012, Electronic Entertainment Expo, Los Angeles—Sean McCann from Qualcomm Atheros demonstrated the latest in wireless connectivity solutions. The use of hardware acceleration for the communications stack eliminates the lag and latency of Windows and other operating systems. Killer Technology was part of Bigfoot Networks in 2007, which was acquired by Atheros, and subsequently [...]
We met with VeXFI to see their implementation of a 2-D to 3-D converter. They have a number of models to address the differing versions of 3-D, including active and passive glasses, and auto-stereoscopic displays, as well as a version for post editing and production. The converter is based upon combinatorial logic and doesn’t require [...]
June 2012 - We met with Dynamics to see about their e-payment device. They have a computer-based payment system that is user on-site programmable to one of two accounts. The use cases for their cards are in credit points to buy on-line items, or donate to a charity, etc. The user can change the account on [...]
June 5, 2012, ShowStoppers, Los Angeles—We stopped by ShowStoppers at the E3 show to check out some of the latest technologies. Sharing seems to be the big new thing associated with games. For shared viewing, capture, and streaming the games, AVerMedia and Elgato make plug-in subsystems for PCs or Macs that watch the gaming efforts [...]
