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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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Nvidia and Siemens to accelerate digital twins’ development

CIO Business Intelligence

“Everything we build in the real world is becoming so complex: We can’t imagine building these things without first simulating them inside the digital, virtual world,” said Rev Lebaredian, vice president of Omniverse and simulation technology at Nvidia. Industrial metaverse.

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The $1,500 ticket to Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse

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Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, released its long-awaited new virtual reality headset on Tuesday during Meta Connect, its annual developer conference. Many of these professionals use 3D modeling in their day-to-day jobs that could justify the headset’s cost. Courtesy of Meta. It will cost you.

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‘Most unusual and difficult year of my life’: Personal and pandemic struggles aside, Bill Gates is hopeful

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In assessing all that has gone wrong and right, Gates is cheered by the remarkable progress made on vaccines; non-pharmaceutical interventions; and the impact that individuals can make. Virtual Bill: Gates on a monitor in Seattle during a virtual discussion as part of the 2020 GeekWire Summit. GeekWire Photo).

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Online Training Solutions and the Art of Enterprise Training Delivery

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Webinars and Virtual Classrooms: A webinar is a training session which is delivered online using video conferencing software. A virtual classroom includes video conferencing tools and online whiteboard for real-time collaboration. How to Build a Mobile-Ready Training Program for Pharmaceutical Industry.

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The future of adult entertainment - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

Similarly, many a relationship has been terminated because one party (quite often, a woman, it seems) finds evidence of physical or virtual infidelity in sent messages. While 3D TV is a possibility too, it has been talked about before and never really made it. If you think fully immersive virtual sex is pure sci-fi, youre right.

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List of the world’s top female futurists (Update #5)

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She led a research project on the Future of Data and investigated topics such as 3D printing, social enterprise, and the evolving role of the state. Since 2015, her company’s goal has been to morph entertainment into “edutainment” with digital worlds that exist inside the realms of virtual, mixed, and augmented realities.

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