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SAN FRANCISCO--Nothing says "Game Developers Conference 2008" quite like an updated Unreal engine demo from Gears of War developer Epic. We took the opportunity to sit in and get a more in-depth look at the Unreal Engine 3 technology that was showcased at the Microsoft keynote address earlier today... Read more

Following the tech demos in our Unreal Engine demonstration at GDC, a Korean outfit called Nurien took the podium to demonstrate a "next generation social networking application" built around Epic's popular technology.
"MStar" will launch in Korea this year and the US next year, and allows you to create a custom avatar - a sexy lady or a hunky man - and then dress them up and network. Socially. And play games, ... Read more

NVISION 08 kicked off with a graphical bang in the San Jose Center for Performing Arts. CEO and co-founder of NVIDIA, Jen-Hsung Huang, along with a plethora of brilliant guest stars, discussed the Visual Computing Ecosystem, and the many spokes in its ever-turning wheel during their first keynote presentation... Read more

Last weekend, San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park hosted a massive festival of rock music and green-style innovations. The next day, chip maker Nvidia kicked off something almost as ambitious, and tricky - a three-day celebration that is designed to get people excited about visual computing without being an outright commercial for... Read more

Sixty start-ups gathered today to talk at the Emerging Companies Summit about how they’re using graphics technologies in their businesses. The summit was one of the many sub-conferences at the Nvision 08 Visual Computing conference in San Jose... Read more

One of the most exciting events of NVISION was part of the professional track. The Emerging Companies Summit gathered together 350 people from 60 up-and-coming visual companies to collaborate and learn from one another.
These companies have produced some of the most exciting innovations in visual computing that have been seen in years, many of which were on display in the Exhibit Hall or demonstrated during various...Read more