Interview

Workstations are the tool of choice at SIGGRAPH

Workstations are the tool of choice at SIGGRAPH

Siggraph, July 2016 – The annual SIGGRAPH event is the meeting place for the academics, innovators, industry and professional media producers to meet and share their experiences.  The commonality is the blending of the technology and engineering with the artistic vision that drive cinema, TV and advertising.  To help realize these visions on a release schedule, the computers used had to change and became workstations. Dell’s Precision Workstations had a lot of visibility at the SIGGRAPH 2016 show even though Dell did not have a...

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Vicon Advances MoCap at SIGGRAPH 2016

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...

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Fatal1ty, Headphones for gamers by Monster

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...

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Enable Autonomous Land, Sea, Air and Space Vehicles

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...

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Dr. Martin Cooper at IMS

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...

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