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NVIDIA RTX Spark powers thin and light laptops built for everything that developers, creators and gamers do. RTX Spark laptops are now available from ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft and...
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Combating cheats is an ever-evolving arms race. The scope and complexity of cheat development grows every year along with the stakes in online gaming. The pressure is on for game studios to level up when it comes to detecting and preventin…
Hardkernel, the hardware manufacturer behind powerful single-board computers (SBCs) including the Odroid XU4, offers the neat Odroid-Go kit. This portable do-it-yourself (DIY) game console provides a GameBoy-esque form factor for a mobile retro gaming experience. Learn more in this Odroid-Go review, from what it is to…
Given a video of a musical performance, CSAIL’s deep-learning system can make individual instruments louder or softer.
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Posted by Carl Vondrick, Research Scientist, Machine Perception Tracking objects in video is a fundamental problem in computer vision, essential to...
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The following post from John provides more information on this technology and the making of its sample video: a 5k re-release of the award-winning Henry, from Oculus Story Studios for Oculus Go and...
Take a look behind the scenes as the World of Warcraft Classic team give us an update on how they are recreating WoW history. In this Dev Watercooler, the team share core decisions, current thinking, and some of the technical challenges and solutions they’re working on.
There is more than meets the eye when it comes to how we understand a visual scene: our brains draw on prior knowledge to reason and to make inferences that go far beyond the patterns of light that hit our retinas. For example, when entering a room for the first time, you instantly recognise the items it contains and…
Ok→Cancel versus Cancel→Ok (kovarex) A really strange debate started as a continuation of FFF-238. I insisted that the button order should obviously always be OK Cancel, as in any UI I see around. But little I knew, that this is actually specific to windows, and on Linux or macOS, the order is reversed: Eventually, we…
The existing animation system in Godot was already one of the most powerful of any game engine, but its age was starting to show (it was written 10 years ago and barely improved). The new one builds upon the strengths of the previous one but does massive improvements to features and usability.
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Position Map Regression Networks (PRN) is a method to jointly regress dense alignment and 3D face shape in an end-to-end manner. In this article, I’ll provide a short explanation and discuss its applications in computer vision. When I was a… Continue reading 3D Face Reconstruction with Position Map Regression Networks
Wildfire Games, an international group of volunteer game developers, proudly announces the release of 0 A.D. Alpha 23 “Ken Wood”, the twenty-third alpha version …
This article is also available in Russian, courtesy of Vlad Brown: Погружение в создание Immersion At last. Last December, we finally finished it. This video here is our last production, a 4 minute animation called “Immersion”. To be more precise, it’s a capture of what is usually referred to as a 64k intro. But more…
Salva de la Puente describes the sharedspace component he's built, which brings the power of WebRTC to A-Frame users. The component provides a collaboration model where participants can join or ...
I went to GDC yet again (this time GDC 2018) trying to see how Godot is doing at the game industry. To my surprise this time, it was quite different..
Krita is a professional FREE and open source painting program. It is made by artists that want to see affordable art tools for everyone.
If you just want to see what DirectX Raytracing can do for gaming, check out the videos from Epic, Futuremark and EA, SEED. To learn about the magic
In the world of distributed systems, hosting and scaling dedicated game servers for online, multiplayer games presents some unique challenges. And while the game development industry has created a myriad of proprietary solutions, Kubernetes has emerged as the de facto open-source, common standard for building complex…
The Khronos Group announces the release of the Vulkan 1.1 and SPIR-V…
