DV Hardware (Free subscription) | 22 hours ago
EE Times writes Renesas has begun sampling the SH-Mobile APE4 processor, this chip for mobile phones and mobile devices is based on the ARM Cortex-A8 design. It is made on a 45nm process and can run at clockspeeds of over 1GHz. It includes the ability to process 1080 progressive-scan high-definition video recording and playback at 30 frames per second. To support 3-D graphics the device is equipped...
Click World News (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Scott Holden of Sacramento, CA made this incredible life-sized Tauntaun costume using a 3D Studio Max mesh model, wood, clay, plaster, metal, foam, silicone, homemade stilts, and lots of fur. Cockeyed.com had Holden document the whole process in words and pictures. Scott Holden's Tauntaun costume...
Click World News (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
My first introduction to 3D modelling, way back in 1999, was ray-tracing with the classic freeware Persistence of Vision (POV-Ray) package . The whole point of POV-Ray was (and is) to program a virtual 3D scene that can be rendered into still images very slowly, but in amazing detail, using ray-tracing algorithms. It was never about producing models for 3D printing or other computer-assisted manufacture...
Destructoid (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
[ As posted on Japanator ] And by "real girlfriend" I mean Real Kanojo , an upcoming title from Illusion Soft, better known to most English-speakers as "The RapeLay guys." It seems they've held off from causing immediate controversy and settled for trying - and failing - to claw their way out of the Uncanny Valley, this time with this freakish CGI woman. I must say though that at...
The Industry Standard (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
I agree with my colleague Dan Moren that the Nintendo DS doesn't have much to worry about when it comes to competition from the iPhone. But third-party games on the iPhone are definitely going to change things when it comes to mobile gaming.-- The iPhone won't threaten the DS's dominance in the marketplace. The DS is a fraction of the price and focuses on a younger demographic. It's also a device...
Cool Infographics (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Space Probes is a very well-done interactive graphic about all of the space probes we have launched, visually placing the probes in orbit around the object they are observing. You can move around the 3-D space with the keyboard controls, change the date range with the sliders on the bottom or go directly to a particular probe from the list on the right that is group by planet or object they are around....
Noupe (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
By Aquil Akhter 3-D computer graphics (CG) art is capable of generating the most eye-catching and incredible effects, and that’s why we love it. The extent to which 3-D CG can replicate human characteristics is simply unbelievable, It can generate graphic details that could easily be mistaken for live photography. For this post, we have looked for [...]
Games Guide (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Product Description Buzz Lightyear to the Rescue! Come in Star Command! Woody has been toy-napped, and it’s up to you tolead Buzz on a rescue mission to save him. Maneuver through 15 3-D worlds andbattle the Evil Emperor Zurg and his robot army. Get ready, Space Ranger, it’stime to put your training to the ultimate test. Spin, spring, somersault and blast your way through key movie locations...
übergizmo (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Sony is still working very hard to turn a profit. To do so, the company is betting on (stereo) 3D, among other things, to charge a premium, in a bid to increase its margins. This was largely visible during our recent trip to CEATEC in Japan: stereo 3D was everywhere, in TVs, but also in the PS3 graphics driver itself. With it, Sony can turn the PS3 (an Uber10 ) user interface and most games into "3D...
VentureBeat (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Game startup Gravity Bear is unveiling its first original game for Facebook today. Battle Punks is a “3-D social game” that will debut this holiday season. The game is set in a variety of fantasy locations, combining in-depth game design with social networking. As such, it’s one of a new generation of Facebook games that aims to deliver a better experience than the simpler two-dimensional...
AppShopper.com: Price Changes (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Shutout 1.3 Category: Games Price: $0.99 -> Free ( iTunes ) Description: Free for 24 hrs. to celebrate our newest app: Arkel - It's Farkel. Please check it out. Shutout is an implementation of the game Canoga also known as Shut-the-box. It's a dice game, thought to have originated in England or perhaps Normandy. Similar wooden games have been played for many years in pubs around the world. Our...
Laptop blog (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Sure, you've been hearing NVIDIA toss around names like CUDA , Fermi and Tesla for what seems like ages now, but we're guessing this is the sort of thing that'll get most folks to really take notice: a promise to cut supercomputing costs by a factor of ten. That rather impressive feat comes courtesy of the company's new Tesla 20-series GPUs, which come in the form of both single GPU PCI-Express Gen-2...
Computer Nerds Blog (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
robotsrule writes "As we discussed last month, RealityServer 3.0 is Nvidia's attempt to bring photo-realistic 3D images to any Internet-connected device, including the likes of Android and iPhone. RealityServer 3.0 pushes the CPU-killing 3D rendering process to a high-power, GPU based, back-end server farm based on Nvidia's Tesla or Quadro architectures. The resulting images are then streamed...
Mediterranean Archaeology (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Source: ScienceDaily ScienceDaily (Nov. 5, 2009) — If you don't have the time to travel to Florence, you can still see Michelangelo's statue of David on the Internet, revolving in true-to-life 3D around its own axis. This is a preview of what scientists are developing in the European joint project 3D-COFORM. The project aims to digitize the heritage in museums and provide a virtual archive for...
VentureBeat (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Game startup Ohai is launching a new vampire-themed online world on Facebook as part of an attempt to snare more time and money from social network fans. Social games have exploded on Facebook this year. But the games have been casual, holding the interest of users for just minutes a day. Ohai wants to take social games to the next generation by launching a massively multiplayer online (MMO) game...
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