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The Battle For Your Head Is Underway: VR from Oculus, Sony, HTC/Valve competing at GDC2016

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It expands beyond games to help developers produce immersive entertainment of all kinds, from games to CG movies to filmed experiences to simulations. Oculus Rift's consumer version (called CV1) is already available for pre-order and its hardware specs are well known. Enterprise users will want to consider the Oculus path.

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DreamWorks "Turbo" Accelerated By HP » Data Center Knowledge

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DreamWorks Animation utilized HP Enterprise Cloud Services to provide a robust, scalable, cloud-based infrastructure that offers the additional compute power needed to render the 10 CG films that are in production at any given time. Latest AWS Price Cuts Target the Enterprise & the Competition. Featured Cloud Articles.

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Epic launches Unreal Engine 5

The Verge

Outside of gaming, engines like Unreal have also become increasingly popular for other applications, most notably film and television. With tools like UE5 and a new generation of gaming hardware, Libreri believes we’ll see more of this kind of crossover between mediums.

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Fading Light: the story of Magic Leap’s lost mixed reality magnum opus

The Verge

The company had a wealth of ideas about how ordinary people might use its hardware, which overlays virtual images on reality. Abovitz originally founded the company not as a hardware startup, but as a home for a sweeping transmedia fantasy epic. But after years of development, many were still prototypes or tech demos.

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Magic Leap names former Microsoft executive as CEO

The Verge

Earlier this year, Magic Leap was also forced to indefinitely delay the launch of an ambitious narrative project called The Last Light following the cancellation of several 2020 film festivals.

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The Skydio 2 self-flying drone is back on sale, with a fix we’ve been waiting for

The Verge

What’s more, Skydio now trusts the GPS sensors in your phone and the optional Beacon to let it fly farther away from you than before — double the distance to 20 meters with a phone, and quadruple to 40 meters with the Beacon — so you can film a wide landscape while the drone automatically follows you.

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Animal Logic Contemplates Cloud Options for VFX Rendering - Data.

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Animal Logic operates a supercomputer to perform rendering, which helped it win the 2007 Best Animated Feature Film Oscar for “Happy Feet.” ” For a sense of the kind of graphic effects Animal Logic produces, check out this before-and-after video from Chris Godfrey, the VFX supervisor on the film. Absolutely.”

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