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How Nvidia became a trillion-dollar company

CIO Business Intelligence

Its founders spotted that generating 3D graphics in video games—then a fast-growing market—placed highly repetitive, math-intensive demands on PC central processing units (CPUs). Although Nvidia’s first chips were used to enhance 3D gaming, the manufacturing industry is also interested in 3D simulations, and its pockets are deeper.

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Sony confirms PS5 will have exclusive games playable only on next-gen hardware

The Verge

The PlayStation 5 will have one selling point Sony thinks might be important to fans who are on the fence about upgrading to a new generation of gaming console: exclusive titles, playable only on the new hardware. Of course, that's been true of pretty much every past console generation of the last three decades.

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Anker’s first 3D printer might be the one you’ve been waiting for

The Verge

3D printing can be a time-consuming and expensive hobby — even if you try to do it on the cheap. But what if a truly consumer-ready 3D printer changed that? And Anker is claiming “advanced algorithms that align your printing with your course of action.”. For me personally, speed isn’t my biggest frustration with 3D printing.

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An absolutely wild mod has brought real-time ray tracing to the SNES

The Verge

Well, technically, it’s a Famicom, which is the same hardware in different packaging for Japan. Of course, it was adding 3D functionality and special effects, not ray tracing.) As you can see from the video demo above, the tech on the SNES isn’t pushing any graphics boundaries, but come on — it’s an SNES.

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Acer’s new ConceptD 7 SpatialLabs Edition laptop uses eye-tracking cameras for a glasses-free 3D display

The Verge

Acer is finally bringing its glasses-free 3D SpatialLabs tech to a laptop you can buy: the company has officially announced the ConceptD 7 SpatialLabs Edition. Announced earlier this year, SpatialLabs combines a suite of hardware and software features. Image: Acer. There’s only a single display option, naturally: a 15.6-inch

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Samsung imagines how its first AR glasses might look in these leaked concept videos

The Verge

The second video shows off the very similar “Samsung AR Glasses” concept, though this time it’s letting the user “see” 3D digital objects appear in the real world, a visual that should be instantly familiar to you if you’ve ever seen any of Microsoft’s HoloLens marketing.

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Nreal Light review: Hardware is only half the battle

The Verge

That could include a flat screen that always stays in the center of your vision, a grid of icons pinned to a specific point in space, or a 3D game board resting on a physical desk. On the other hand, Nreal Light projections look much less convincingly 3D than HoloLens or Magic Leap images. This involves some tradeoffs, of course.