June 2, 2015, Society for Information Display Symposium, San Jose, CA—Brian Krzanrich from Intel talked about the coming revolution in man-machine interfaces in the SID’s first keynote address. The era of immersive interactions will be as significant as any previous changes in electronic systems. The industry and society are on the cusp of a major…
March 4, 2015, Game Developer Conference, San Francisco—Pete Baker and Chris Silva from Intel presented their views on the future of PC gaming. In some sense, the whole computer industry needs PC games to drive improvements in graphics performance at high volumes. Gaming evolves at a fantastic pace. The industry is always seeing better performance…
February 10, 2015, Electronic Imaging Conference, San Francisco—Hirofumi Yabu from Osaka City University described the developments in holographic 3-D displays. With this development, we are close to the Star Wars scene showing a small Princess Leia image floating in space. Existing systems for full 360-degree 3-D images are fairly large and complex, like a CAVE…
June 4, 2013, Augmented World Expo, Santa Clara, CA—Amber Case from ESRI presented “The Future of Wearable Computing”. The drivers and conditions for adoption are changing as the technologies improve. Among the issues the AR community has to address are constraint, context, and location information. We are still waiting for a realistic wearable display and…
March 19, 2013, GPU Technology Conference, San Jose, CA—David Kasik and Christopher J Senesac from Boeing described the changing nature of computer graphics at their company. Boeing has had substantial influence on the fields of computer graphics, interactive techniques, and computational geometry since 1960. Boeing is involved in a wide range of technologies from basic…
January 10, 2011 – Showstoppers Las Vegas at CES – There were some additional products of interest at the event that were part of the audio, computing and gaming space. Blue Microphones – Tiki USB Mic Blue Microphones was showing their new Tiki dual portable USB microphone. The unit, which will be available in first…