Greg Corke, Author at DEVELOP3D

Chaos Group introduces GPU + CPU hybrid rendering

Posted by Greg Corke - July 7, 2017

Chaos Group has added a new hybrid rendering technology to V-Ray for 3ds Max that adds CPU support to its Nvidia CUDA-powered GPU renderer. With version 3.6 artists can render…

WorldViz set to launch VR communication tool Vizible

Posted by Greg Corke - July 26, 2017

Presenter Using Pointer “Project Skofield”, the VR communication technology that was first previewed by WorldViz in 2016, has now been branded Vizible and is due to launch in October 2017.…

AMD unveils Radeon Pro WX 9100 and SSG ‘Vega’ GPUs for professional users

Posted by Greg Corke - July 31, 2017

The Radeon Pro SSG features 2TB of total on-board memory, made up of 16GB of HBM2 memory and an on-board 2TB NVMe SSD AMD has launched two ultra-high-end professional GPUs…

PNY introduces VR Ready 15.6-inch mobile workstation

Posted by Greg Corke - July 31, 2017

PNY Technologies, the firm that manufactures Nvidia graphics cards among other products, has entered the mobile workstation market with the launch of two machines powered by the latest Nvidia Quadro…

Nvidia brings pro VR and GPU rendering to standard notebooks

Posted by Greg Corke - July 31, 2017

Nvidia’s eGPU solution can house any one of four powerful Quadro GPUs Nvidia has launched a new solution that allows users to plug in a powerful professional desktop Quadro GPU…

Nvidia uses AI to deliver 8x speed boost to ray trace rendering

Posted by Greg Corke - July 31, 2017

Nvidia takes a ‘noisy’ ray traced image and uses AI to predict what it would look like after thousands of passes Nvidia is looking to rewrite the ray trace rendering…

Epic Games optimises viz and VR workflow from CAD to Unreal Engine

Posted by Greg Corke - August 1, 2017

Scene imported via Datasmith (about 8 minutes) into Unreal Engine and baked, no further refinement. Statistics: 200 objects, 1.6M polygons, 90 FPS. Image courtesy of A-VR Epic Games is looking…

HP launches workstation backpack for untethered pro VR

Posted by Greg Corke - August 1, 2017

HP has launched the world’s first professional wearable VR workstation, the HP Z VR Backpack G1, a compact machine that doubles as a desktop, runs off batteries in VR backpack…

HP launches global design project to imagine life on Mars

Posted by Greg Corke - August 1, 2017

Is there life on Mars? Yes – 1 million humans to be precise. From buildings and vehicles, to farms and clothing, what could life on Mars look like to support…

Dell unveils new Skylake-SP Xeon workstations

Posted by Greg Corke - August 1, 2017

The new Precision workstations feature ‘FlexBays’ that support a range of modules, including one that offers hot swap access to M.2 NVMe SSDs from the front of the machine Dell…