Creating singing volcanoes isn’t, perhaps, a common use case for NVIDIA products. But in a packed session at the GPU Technology Conference, attendees learned that GPUs helped Pixar get the details right in animating Uku, the singing volcano in the ...

A year-old startup that promises to cut production costs for video games and movies, won the second annual $100,000 Early Stage Challenge, at NVIDIA’s Emerging Companies Summit Wednesday. Artomatix, based in Dublin, Ireland, automates content ...

Talk about cold storage. By next year, it should be possible to send a payload to the moon for a cool $1.2 million a kilogram, thanks to work being done to help finance the race to drive a vehicle on the moon. Astrobotic, a Pittsburgh startup that ...

That’s it, gamers. You’ve been replaced. Google has used a new technology called deep learning build a machine that has mastered more than 50 classic Atari video games. And you’ve never seen “SeaQuest” played like this. Talk about the way it’s meant ...

Outsmarting charging dinosaurs, floating in space and slaying dragons can all be done safely in virtual reality. With the right gear, you can be fully immersed in the experience – really there, wherever there is – except if you are connected to a ...

OTOY Inc., a Los Angeles-based cloud graphics specialist, is doubling down on its bet on virtual reality. It’s a move that could help content creators focus on hyper-realistic images and move past the constraints of traditional CGI and filmed media. ...

Some at this week’s GPU Technology Conference dream of building self-driving cars. Others want to build machines that can teach themselves to drive. Bingcai Zhang, a technical fellow with defense contractor BAE Systems, just wishes he could have ...

SpaceX, the other company led by Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk, has an ambitious goal. It wants to put a human colony on Mars. If that sounds hard, it’s actually even harder to pull off. You don’t just have to put people on Mars. You have to move ...

Filmmakers flock each year to the GPU Technology Conference to share tales of how GPUs are transforming their art. The latest is from Kevin Margo, who talked at a breakout session about how the extensive renderings in his new short film, “Construct” ...

When you’re preparing to launch a computing platform for self-driving cars, it helps to bring one of the leading voices in automotive innovation along for the ride. That’s just what NVIDIA CEO and co-founder Jen-Hsun Huang did in his opening keynote ...