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…
March 2016 – At HardwareCon 2016, Jay Rogers Jr, CEO and Co-Founder of Local Motors presented a keynote on design. He started with a story of the 8 year odyssey of Local Motors and the efforts to make the first crowd-sourced designed car. He talked about how the concept of scaling had changed. In early…
August 10, 2015, Siggraph, Los Angeles—Neil Trevett from Khronos provided an update on the organization’s various standards and initiatives. The graphics APIs have undergone fundamental changes in approach while the safety critical work is getting increased looks from areas outside the traditional safety critical industries. All of the graphics APIs have updates. OpenGL ES 3.2…
February 14, 2011 – San Francisco, CA – Lenovo demonstrated their new laptop products for the enterprise marketplace at the RSA conference. These new Thinkpad line supports TPM (Trusted Platform Module) component security as well as biometric fingerprint scanning. These drives now add the use of OPAL compliant Self Encrypting Drives (SED) to their component…
August 6, 2013, Emerging Display Technologies Conference, San Jose, CA-Richard Shim from NPD DisplaySearch talked about changes in mobile devices and the trends that they are generating. The mobile spaces are constantly evolving, requiring new definitions, i.e. phones are any mobile device that can make an ordinary phone call. The changes in mobile devices are…
October 11, 2012, TV Next Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Rob Relick from CBS Interactive talked about the multi-screen space and how they are addressing it. In a constantly shifting marketplace, programmers need to experiment and invest in new platforms to address the changing consumer expectations. The entertainment industry has grown 82 percent between ’10 and ’12….