The ethics of the metaverse
We’re all in a rage about the metaverse, the universe of virtual worlds that are all interconnected, like in novels such as Snow Crash and Ready Player...
HTC is committed to the larger XR, AR, and VR ecosystem for Vive
Virtual reality has a bright future, but for the present the consumer VR market is puttering along. Rikard Steiber, senior vice president of VR...
Light Field Lab and Otoy team up to make Star Trek’s Holodeck a reality
Holographic display maker Light Field Lab and graphics software firm Otoy have teamed up to turn the Star Trek Holodeck into a reality. The...
Otoy’s RNDR harnesses 14,000 GPUs to render cloud-based graphics
Blockchain-based rendering platform RNDR has harnessed the graphics processing power of more than 14,000 graphics processing units (GPU) provided by individuals who contribute the...
The DeanBeat: The blockchain hype train comes to gaming
Blockchain this and that. You hear it all the time now. I get pitched a few times per week, or sometimes per day, on...
Otoy’s RNDR brings sophisticated graphics rendering to masses via blockchain
We all love the great images and special effects in our favorite films, video games, and animated TV shows. But it’s still a pretty...
Otoy’s Octane 4 blends cinematic video and games using AI
You may not know it, but Otoy’s OctaneRender is an image renderer behind some cool film visuals like the opening of HBO’s Westworld, along with...
Otoy’s Jules Urbach believes the blockchain can produce a crowdsourced rendering engine
Once upon a time, you had to submit a program to the computer department. They would run it, and send the results back to...
Otoy adds lightfield baking and other tools to its Unity integration
The road to photorealistic VR is long, but Otoy is helping to shorten it with the integration of its technology into the free version...
Otoy gets cinematic VR to run on low-power PowerVR graphics chips
Animation rendering software company Otoy has teamed up with graphics chip designer Imagination Technologies to enable cinematic VR to run on very low-power devices. Otoy’s...