This is news of the week for April 11, 2016. Our weekly video news program covering Renderosity.com news and select CG Industry News via our Renderosity Magazine site.
Renderosity News
- Our Renderosity Gallery of the Week is the Rhino 3D Gallery. Be sure to visit the Renderosity Rhino 3D forum run by UVDan
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Poser 11 Tutorial: Caustics, Area Lights and Volumetrics. Mark Bremmer's continuing tutorial series.
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Zoltar Predicts 48 hours of Savings! Zoltar the fortune teller predicts savings coming your way! For the next 48 hours thru 11:59pm (CDT) on Monday, April 11th, Prime Members can save 14% off $10 minimum purchase on items in our MarketPlace. All other members can save 12% off 12 dollar minimum purchase.
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Our VOM (3D Age) and AOM (Jollyself) interviews/videos are now live. Be sure to find out who these artists are and discover some of the ideas about creating digital art.
Renderosity Magazine & CG Industry News
Special GTC coverage:
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GTC 2016 was primarily focused on three areas of GPU technology: autonomous cars, deep learning and virtual reality (VR). All three areas have been intensely developed by NVIDIA and other companies, but have only recently become a part of public conversation and media coverage, thus heightening the popularity and importance of this year's conference
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Keynote address by NVIDIA co-founder and CEO, Jen-Hsun Huang. Way too much to cover in this short recap, but essentially Mr. Huang announced five new NVIDIA technologies:
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NVIDIA SDK - a major software update that "takes advantage of NVIDIA's new Pascal architecture and makes it easier than ever for developers to create great solutions on our platforms."
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NVIDIA Iray VR and Iray VR Lite - This new application takes NVIDIA's remarkable photo-realistic renderer and applies it to Virtual Reality. VR Lite is designed for users who don't have a supercomputer, but want to use the Iray renderer in less expensive VR technology like the Google cardboard VR + android phone.
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NVIDIA Tesla P100 GPU - "The most advanced hyperscale datacenter GPU ever built"
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NVIDIA DGX-1 - "The world's first supercomputer in a box". This amazing computer is designed specifically for deep learning data crunching and artificial intelligence research.
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Drive PX - "The world's first AI computer platform powered by Deep Learning." In tandem with this news came an the announcement of another first - an autonomous race car. Roborace will be a special speed race using Drive PX to power 20 identical autonomous race cars.
Hightlights of the GTC for me:
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Mr Huang's welcome to Open Source developer, Rajat Monga, TensorFlow technical lead and manager at Google, https://www.tensorflow.org/. Legitimizes Open Source and leads by important example.
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Session Light Field Rendering and Streaming for VR and AR from Jules Urbach ( CEO & Founder, OTOY, Inc.) interview Mr. Urbach afterwards. Note that we'll be sharing the interview next week.
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VR Village- a central area in the exhibition hall where several VR demos were available.
My thanks to NVIDIA for inviting me and for treating me courtesy and care.