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Apple's Fancy Photo Relighting Option Could Soon Be a Feature On Even the Cheapest Smartphones

Even the most expensive smartphones can’t match the image quality of the priciest digital cameras, but with a beefy…

Andrew Liszewski

7/22/19 4:17PM

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5/10/17

We Finally Figured Out How To Make Realistic CG Mud

Jurassic Park had just six minutes of computer-generated dinosaurs in it, compared to modern blockbusters which can…

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Virtual 3D Oil Painting Perfectly Simulates How the Brush, Paint, and Canvas Interact

Nvidia and Adobe teamed up to develop a 3D-painting app that is sure to become an essential tool for modern day art…

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Finally, A Convincing 3D Display That Doesn't Require Glasses

Viewing 3D content without glasses or goggles has proved to be one of the toughest things for interface designers to…

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The One Big Problem With VR

At this week’s SIGGRAPH design conference, I spent two days wandering among basketball players wearing Tron-like…

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The Haptic Tech That Could Let You Touch The Person You're Skyping With

I was skeptical. Two cubes sat side-by-side, looking like stripped-down 3D printers. I sat in front of one as…

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You Can Feel These Plasma Holograms Made With Femtosecond Lasers

With each passing year, engineers are getting closer to recreating the 3D interface technology that pop culture has…

Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

7/01/15 4:20PM

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8/15/14

This Clever Carpet "Printer" Brushes Pictures Onto Your Rugs

You know that incredibly satisfying feeling of seeing a freshly vacuumed carpet with the fibers all perfectly…

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Microsoft's Newest Trick Turns Ordinary Cameras Into Baby Kinects

Depth cameras aren't new technology, but shrinking them down to the size of a smartphone so that it can see in 3D…

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Disney Developed Software To Revolutionize Macy's Parade Balloons

The reason your favorite cartoon or movie character hasn't appeared in Macy's annual Thanksgiving Day Parade isn't…

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Unbelievable Display Technology Uses Levitating Particles as Pixels

The Pixie Dust display uses sound waves to create images and animations from real particles that appear to float in…

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Microsoft Has Invented a Way To Embed Data in 3D Printed Objects

Say you have a 3D-printed item you're selling. Maybe you slap a barcode on it that identifies what it is, where it…

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How Disney Is Using 3D Printing To Give Robots Soul-Piercing Eyes

Some toys look like they're about ready to come to life and stab you. And if Disney has anything to do with it,…

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A Revolutionary All-Seeing Camera Lens That Puts the Lytro To Shame

It hasn't exactly been a runaway hit with consumers, but on a technical level the Lytro camera introduced some…

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A Sneak Peek At the Mind-Boggling Future of Computer Graphics

Computer graphics have come a long way since a T-Rex ate that lawyer in Jurassic Park. But if these glimpses of…

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Flash Memory Capable of Playing More Than a Few Movies at a Time

Last week's annual SIGGRAPH conference was, as usual, a place where dazzling visual displays were commonplace. But…

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Magic Volumes Have Three Different Magic Shadows

The uncanny Photosketch tool was not the only magic software tool debuting at Siggraph Asia 2009. These amorphous…

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Pull-Navi System Gives Directions and Dumbo-Like Ears

I used to be excited about iPhone turn-by-turn navigation, but the Pull-Navi system (straight from Tokyo University…

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Scientists Work Out Way to Capture 3D Texture Info in a Flash

Click to viewSome scientists at University of Manchester in the UK and Dolby Canada in Vancouver have worked out a…

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Microsoft's "Unwrap Mosaics" Add Mustaches (and More) to Video

Imagine being able to put a handlebar mustache on Grandma in a home video as easily as you could with Photoshop and…

Sean Fallon

8/12/08 5:30PM

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Apple's Fancy Photo Relighting Option Could Soon Be a Feature On Even the Cheapest Smartphones

We Finally Figured Out How To Make Realistic CG Mud

Virtual 3D Oil Painting Perfectly Simulates How the Brush, Paint, and Canvas Interact

Finally, A Convincing 3D Display That Doesn't Require Glasses

The One Big Problem With VR

The Haptic Tech That Could Let You Touch The Person You're Skyping With

You Can Feel These Plasma Holograms Made With Femtosecond Lasers

This Clever Carpet "Printer" Brushes Pictures Onto Your Rugs

Microsoft's Newest Trick Turns Ordinary Cameras Into Baby Kinects

Disney Developed Software To Revolutionize Macy's Parade Balloons

Unbelievable Display Technology Uses Levitating Particles as Pixels

Microsoft Has Invented a Way To Embed Data in 3D Printed Objects

How Disney Is Using 3D Printing To Give Robots Soul-Piercing Eyes

A Revolutionary All-Seeing Camera Lens That Puts the Lytro To Shame

A Sneak Peek At the Mind-Boggling Future of Computer Graphics

Flash Memory Capable of Playing More Than a Few Movies at a Time

Magic Volumes Have Three Different Magic Shadows

Pull-Navi System Gives Directions and Dumbo-Like Ears

Scientists Work Out Way to Capture 3D Texture Info in a Flash

Microsoft's "Unwrap Mosaics" Add Mustaches (and More) to Video