Best gaming/TV’s for lag reduction
Want to know how laggy that TV or computer monitor is before buying it? Check out this database of display lag.
DirectX 12 coming to Linux kernels
The Microsoft team has been busy getting DirectX 12 to run in Linux – including some interesting work on containerization, GPGPU compute, and other features.
Read more about it here: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/directx-heart-linux/
Giant LED Wave
The Gangnam-gu area in Seoul is the Korean version of Times Square and it’s the country’s first outdoor advertisement zone. Mega-size LED screen displays have been installed on the walls of large buildings which create an electronic display for 18 hours a day.
One of the best known buildings is the COEX artium, also known as the mecca of K-pop. Featuring an electronic display measuring 80 meters in width and 23 meters in height, this massive screen wraps the building and is currently showcasing the korean wave designed by District.
Fun with projection mapping
Transparent Rockets
*Slap*
Wii’s Mii theme
Voice assisted tool chest
Ever ask “Where are those red LEDs?” or “Where did I put that electrical tape?” Now you can – and your tool chest will help you.
Time and fashion
Giving up on greenscreen?
CG has always had problems with realism. Eye-lines and focus distances are never perfect. Colors between live/CG elements never quite match. Reflections can be directionally incorrect, missing, or mismatched in color/intensity. Lighting color/intensity/direction is often inconsistent between the live elements and CG elements. Mattes have problems at edges. Motion tracking is usually off by just enough to cause odd movement discontinuities. All of this makes CG look cheap.
But there is a new approach using LED stages – large displays surrounding your shooting scene. It’s completely changing the game. Even more amazing, camera movement and simulation are done using the Unreal gaming engine. Even back in the mid 2000’s, I worked on a project that attempted to use a game engine for movie pre-visualization. That’s how far things have come. The amazing visuals of the Mandalorian were created using this technique – and it’s blowing green-screens away.