Nearly everyone is familiar with terms like 20/20 vision – but what does that mean when it comes to developing a flight simulator? Most flight simulators only offer 20/40 vision – meaning that important details are often blurred or not easily identifiable to the pilot. Yet most young military pilots starting their flying careers have… Read More
NASA is having an out-of-this-world 3D experience, thanks to gamers here on Earth. The team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) that controls the rover Curiosity is using NVIDIA 3D Vision glasses to see Mars in 3D and plan rover missions in a virtual, game-like environment. JPL developed the technique to account for the unique… Read More
Considering NASA completed multiple missions to the moon more than 40 years ago using the technological equivalent of chicken wire and duct tape, landing a robotic lunar rover with modern technology should be a pushover, right? Not exactly, explained Robert Boehme and Wes Faler, of Part-Time Scientists, during their Day Three keynote address in front… Read More
[Update] Blog post updated for factual accuracy The 150 million-plus miles from Earth to Mars is the least of the challenges facing researchers who are processing images from a rover on the Red Planet. Consider some others: The rover’s processor is now generations-old technology – the rover was meant to last six months and is… Read More
Legroom is tight, babies are screaming and the food supply is running low. Such are the horrors of being stuck on the tarmac. Thankfully, the folks at Silicon Valley-based Optimal Synthesis are working to advance air traffic flow management using CUDA GPUs. By some estimates, the number of aircraft in our skies will double by 2025.… Read More
NVIDIA GPU technology isn’t just for gamers; it will soon help make your local weather forecast more accurate. NASA meteorologists in the Goddard Space Flight Center’s Sciences and Exploration Directorate are leveraging GPU computing technologies to create more accurate global climate models – and is the focus of today’s CUDA Spotlight. Scientist Bill Putman’s team… Read More
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We came, we saw, we made stuff: NVIDIA’s GeForce team hits the Maker Faire http://t.co/kzC1QjtpJp posted May 18 2013 at 15:46:19 PM |
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In case you missed this: 5 cutting-edge games that will rock on SHIELD http://t.co/6GyeQZLF76 posted May 18 2013 at 11:05:27 AM |
