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Cheaper Nvidia Shield Package Goes on Sale Next Month

by Andrew Fenn

Following the release of the new Apple TV, capable of outputting Ultra HD resolution and HDR, Nvidia has reacted by announcing a price drop for Nvidia Shield. From October 18th, consumers will be able …

Tags:Consoles| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| Nvidia| Vol 24 - Issue 35

Nvidia Becomes Third Largest Fabless Chip Maker

by Bob Raikes

Nvidia went past MediaTek to get into third place in the ranking of fabless IC design companies published by Topology Research (part of TrendForce of Taiwan). Broadcom remained top with Qualcomm just behind. Nvidia …

Tags:Chips| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Nvidia| Semiconductor Market| Vol 24 - Issue 30

Akitio Node Thunderbolt 3 eGPU Box NVIDIA Quadro Qualified

by Isaac Oburu

Akitio, makers of premium storage solutions and Thunderbolt 3 eGPU experts are excited to announce a new partnership with NVIDIA. Akitio and NVIDIA are hard at work bringing Quadro support to Thunderbolt 3 eGPUs. …

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Nvidia Boosts Unity VR Rendering

by Bob Raikes

Nvidia has launched a VRWorks plug-in for the latest Unity beta with a number of new features exploiting the Nvidia GPUs. Multi-Res Shading (Maxwell & Pascal) – renders each part of an image at …

Tags:AR/VR| GPUs| Mobile Display Monitor| Nvidia| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 17

Nvidia Shield Can Now Stream 4K Movies

by Alan Spencer

The Nvidia Shield box has received an update that enables it to stream 4K movies from the Google Play Movie store and also enables the built-in Chromecast feature to handle 4K movies. Google started …

Tags:Consoles| Mobile Display Monitor| Nvidia| UltraHD| Vol 24 - Issue 16

Oculus Reduces Hardware Recommendations

by Bob Raikes

Oculus has updated its minimum specification for its Rift and has a compatibility check tool. The new specification means a move down for the minimum graphics card needed from the GTX 1060 that was …

Tags:AR/VR| Mobile Display Monitor| Nvidia| Oculus Rift| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 14

Laval Virtual 2017 Round-Up

by Bob Raikes

3DRudder’s Motion controller. Image:Meko 3D Rudder has developed a foot pad that can be used to control movement in VR games. Tipping the board moves in the appropriate direction and the board can also …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Foveated Rendering| Laval Virtual 2017| Medical| Microsoft| Mobile Display Monitor| Nvidia| Sports and Stadiums| Training| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 12

Is Nvidia Looking to Boost Card Sales?

by Bob Raikes

Sources in Asia say that Nvidia is looking to boost sales of its own graphics cards, sold as ‘Founder Edition’ and based on Nvidia’s reference design. This will put Nvidia increasingly in competition with …

Tags:GPUs| Large Display Monitor| Nvidia| Vol 24 - Issue 03

TV OS, UI and Delivery News

by Chris Chinnock

The integration of third party Operating Systems (OS) into TV and bundling of content from a wide array of sources, picked up steam at CES 2017. The range of solutions seems to be consolidating …

Tags:Amazon| CES 2017| Dish Network| Google| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Nvidia| OTT Video| Roku| TCL| Vol 24 - Issue 02

NVidia Looking at GPUs to Enable Deep Learning and Autonomous Vehicles – Shows HDR Monitor

by Bob Raikes

The Nvidia keynote was the opening one of CES, so the first section of the talk was a pitch for CES, highlighting the 50 year history. CTA president, Gary Shapiro, then came on to …

Tags:Automotive| CES 2017| Desktop Monitors| HDR - High Dynamic Range| High Brightness Displays| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Nvidia| Variable Frame Rate (VRR)| Vol 24 - Issue 02

Nintendo Switch Less Powerful than PlayStation 4

by Bob Raikes

Dean Takehashi has made a detailed report on the Nintendo Switch on Venturebeat. He has pointed out that the Switch, which is due in 2017, will not be more powerful than the PlayStation 4, …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Nintendo Consoles| Nvidia| Vol 23 - Issue 49

Nvidia Working on Google Play Support

by Bob Raikes

Nvidia is reported to be rapidly developing support for the recently announced Google Play 4K service (Google Now Has UltraHD Movies) and is planning a firmware update to ensure compatibility. It seems that the …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Nvidia| Vol 23 - Issue 49| VP9