Interview
Vicon Advances MoCap at SIGGRAPH 2016
Siggraph, July 2016 – In an interview with Jeffrey Ovadya, Director of Sales and Marketing for Vicon Motion Systems, we got a chance to hear about their latest mocap camera and also Project Katana which was being demonstrated on the conference expo floor at SIGGRAPH 2016. Motion Capture, or MoCap has moved to the mainstream for VFX production in movies, TV, advertising and most content creation. It has even expanded to support automated PTZ camera movement for live TV production using virtual studios. The primary product from the...
Fatal1ty, Headphones for gamers by Monster
E3, June 2016 - Noel Lee, the founder of Monster Cable, is an entrepreneurial icon in the audio & music industries. He personally designs and tunes every headphones that the company manufactures. Since early 2000s he is active in gaming industry and he presented his products at E3 show this year. In the new presence at the show, Monster was showing off their high performance wireless products, their high power portable devices, automotive audio and the flagship for the show, their Fatal1ty by Monster gaming headsets. These were...
Enable Autonomous Land, Sea, Air and Space Vehicles
Embedded Vision Summit, May, 2016 – The original title of Larry Matthies, Senior Scientist from NASA Jet Propulsion Lab, was “Using Vision to Enable Autonomous Land, Sea and Air Vehicles". Matthies added “the space” to emphasize the surroundings of these vehicles. “How I could forget about space”, he noted. When we think about autonomous vehicles, what comes to our minds are the vehicles on the roads but the scientists are continuing to develop the driverless vehicles for sea, air and space. Matthies mentioned that the primary...
Dr. Martin Cooper at IMS
IMS, May 2016 –At the International Microwave Symposium this year a legendary inventor, a father of the cellphone, Dr. Martin Cooper, was speaking at the plenary session on Monday, May 23. In 1973 Dr. Cooper worked for Motorola when he presented the first handheld cellular phone to the world. In a short 10 years later, the “DynaTAC 8000x” the model was released to the market. Today it is hard to believe that first cellphone weighed almost 2 pounds and looked and felt like a brick. The first model that retailed for $3,995 and with...
Larry O’Connor, founder of OWC
NAB, April 2016 - OWC is the abbreviation for Other World Computing, one of the longest running 3rd party computer component and storage solutions providers in the personal computer industry. The company started with individual users and small companies and now supports enterprise customers and cloud providers with their products. In a casual and comfortable one on one discussion, we sat down with their CEO and founder to talk about his journey and the company. It seems like yesterday, said Larry O'Connor, when I asked about his...
National Association of Broadcasters
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- NAB Statement on the American Privacy Rights Act
- NAB Applauds House Committee Announcement of Bipartisan Legislative Hearing on AM Radio
- 2024 NAB Crystal Radio Award Winners Announced
- NAB Show Announces Winners of 2024 Product of the Year Awards
NVIDIA
- New Standard for Speech Recognition and Translation from the NVIDIA NeMo Canary Model
- Turbocharge ASR Accuracy and Speed with NVIDIA NeMo Parakeet-TDT
- Pushing the Boundaries of Speech Recognition with NVIDIA NeMo Parakeet ASR Models
- Advancing Medical Image Decoding with GPU-Accelerated nvImageCodec
- Explainer: What Is a Convolutional Neural Network?