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GPU Startup Story: Raytrix Conjures 3D From Single-Lens Camera

When the shutter clicks on a Raytrix 3D light-field camera, you don’t take a single shot – you take every shot. That’s because the German startup places an array of microlenses – up to 20,000 of them – between a normal camera lens and the camera’s image sensor. It’s like having 20,000 little cameras clustered together taking shots of a scene from slightly different angles.

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GPU STARTUP STORY: EYESIGHT WAVES OFF TOUCH TECHNOLOGY

To the delight of couch potatoes everywhere, eyeSight Mobile Technologies is working to improve on the TV remote control with something that’s impossible to misplace and never runs out of batteries: your hand. That’s just one example of the many devices and applications that the five-year-old Israeli company is working to improve with its innovative gesture-recognition software.

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GPU STARTUP STORY: ZOOBE ANIMATES YOUR TEXT MESSAGES

Not since the Pony Express has a form of communication overflowed with as much character as Zoobe Message Entertainment’s animated video messaging service.

Zoobe’s mission is to bring entertainment to messaging. Founded by entrepreneurs grounded in filmmaking and computer graphics animation, the Berlin-based startup brings cinematic qualities to text messaging with the help of dancing, lip-syncing avatars. …

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NVIDIA IS HERE, THERE, EVERYWHERE AT SIGGRAPH 2012

On the desktop. In the cloud. Via mobile devices. NVIDIA’s latest technology for accelerating visual effects and content creation pipelines will have professionals covered “here, there and everywhere” – which just happens to be our theme for this year’s SIGGRAPH, kicking off next Tuesday in Los Angeles. Come experience for yourself the compelling new technology… Read More

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GPU STARTUP STORY: BIODIGITAL NAVIGATES HUMAN ANATOMY

As Google Earth explores the planet’s highways and byways, so BioDigital’s latest offering, the BioDigital Human, navigates the inner workings of the human body in fine, full-color 3D detail. When trying to understand a new diagnosis or treatment, most turn to text-based, densely worded medical reference tools. To the untrained, it can be a baffling experience. …

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GPU STARTUP STORY: REALVIEW MAKES HOLOGRAMS REAL

While holograms have been featured in commercial entertainment for decades, RealView Imaging Ltd. is taking the idea seriously ­­– from science fiction to real life. The Israel-based startup has created a revolutionary hardware and optics system that projects true 3D holographic images into free space. These images can be interacted with by literally touching the image…

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GPU STARTUP STORY: SPLASHTOP RIDES THE MOBILITY WAVE

Since its founding five years ago, Splashtop has been delivering quick access to the online world for remote users. More than 7 million people worldwide use the San Jose, Calif.-based company’s apps on their mobile devices to remotely – and inexpensively – access their PCs or Macs, and associated programs, data, applications, movies and games…