September 2015 – At CTIA we met with Kyocera to discuss their latest position in cellular and the support for the enterprise and automotive markets. They have been in the US markets for about 15yrs and with the crowed marketplace for the consumer smartphone and mobile products business, Kyocera chose to move in the direction…
September 2015 – At IBC 2015, Imagine Communications introduced a new software service and product for Just in Time Transcode (JITT) that is available in the cloud and can be run on any web server. The product is called SelenioNext. In addition to being a real time transcoder for both live data feeds and UDP…
September 2015 – Imagine Communications recently released version 3 of the Versio platform. The version 2 was an appliance that handing the baseband control, input/output, clip control and all the other standard functions of the broadcast. The version 2 appliance, however, was constrained by the bandwidth and distribution limitations of the coax that connected the…
September 2015 – In a telephone briefing before IBC 2015, Fraunhofer was discussing the advancements made in their lightfield production system for video. The computational imaging technique has been updated to support camera movement and automated calibration. The system has a new integration with the production compositing tool NUKE from The Foundry. The new system…
August 2015 – At IDF 2015 in San Francisco, Pericom was showing their next generation of high speed connectivity products to support modern server and mobile device design for the Intel platform. According to industry analysts, mobile devices and PCs unit sales combined will exceed 2.2 billion units by 2020. These next generation mobile devices…
August 2015 – At Intel Developer Forum (IDF 2015) Aspera, an IBM company, was showing their large file transport and exchange system that is targeted at individuals and small groups that has been optimized for the Intel hardware platform. The Aspera faspex™ product is available with a mobile app for Android and iOS and in…
August 2015 – During IDF, AMD was showing some of the systems with their new Carrizo class mobile, low power processor. The systems on display included laptops and all-in-ones from Lenovo and HP, that featured the new process built on the Excavator series processors, high density libraries and new architecture. The key in this new…
August 2015 – The VFX requirements for film and gaming is constantly progressing. In this respect, GreenScreen Animals is modernizing their library of animals available for content creation. Historically the company has had high resolution film clips (6K HDR stock footage on RED cameras) of animals in both domesticated situations and in the wild, for…
August 2015 – At SIGGRAPH 2015, there were a number of companies showing both Motion Capture and Performance Capture systems for VFX and gaming applications. The majority of the capture systems use dots and other types of markers to “tag” the surfaces to be tracked by the capture system. While this simplifies the motion processing,…