Everyone today is talking about NVidia’s latest quarterly report, where they lost $201.3Million dollars, which seems pretty painful compared to last year’s profit of $176M for the same quarter.
Excluding a one-time charge of $140.2 million for buying employee stock options, and some other items, Nvidia reported a loss of 9 cents per share for the quarter. On that basis, Wall Street expected a loss of 10 cents per share, according to Reuters Estimates.
In short, yes they are down, but not as down as Wall Street expected, so they did ok. It’s also important to note that they lost expected profit, not actual money (they didn’t make as much profit as they wanted), so they’re still in a strong financial position.
On June 23rd, the Open Geospatial Consortium invites people to the 3D Fusion Summit at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The OGC 3-D Information Management Domain Working Group (3DIM WG) is becoming a driving force in the convergence of 3-D Visualization, CAD-GIS integration, and Building Information Modeling.
“We are developing the standards and best practices that will enable the fusion of robust information and topological models with quality 3D graphics across multiple vendors’ products ” explained Tim Case Chair of 3DIM WG. “Our goal is to make AEC technologies such as CAD and BIM geospatial systems 3D visualization and urban simulation work together smoothly and streamline operations throughout the lifecycle of a building or capital project.”
We talk a lot about the visualizations done by the crew at the New York Times, so it’s no surprise to see the guy in charge, Steve Duenes, chosen for a SIGGRAPH Keynote.
Duenes started at The New York Times in 1999 as the graphics editor for science, and he became the graphics director in 2004. In his current role, he manages a staff of 30 journalists who work as a team to shape and deliver visual information by researching, writing, designing and programming information graphics for both the printed newspaper and www.nytimes.com.
Duenes is also on the faculty at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. His team has received awards from numerous organizations including the Society of Publication Designers, American Institute of Graphic Arts, Society for News Design, and the Society of Professional Journalists. In addition, Duenes is a contributing cartoonist in The New Yorker.
Allegorithmic has just announced their new Substance Air product for procedural texture generation.
“Substance Air was specifically designed with both the game developer and end user in mind,” said Dr. Sebastien Deguy, founder and CEO of Allegorithmic. “Not only does Substance Air offer high-quality texture generation in a few kilobytes, these textures can easily be modified for the players, allowing for some of the most advanced user-generated content appearing in games today.”
It’s available now with specialized licenses for MMO’s, XBox Live Arcade, Playstation Network, and retail gaming uses.
Milwaukee has taken the initiative to digitally re-create their downtown area and link it with computer simulations and databases to create a virtual world where they can experiment and test modifications.
For example, architects can remove buildings from Virtual Milwaukee and add new ones to see how they will fit within the cityscape. Interactive virtual tour guides could be added to the simulation to escort visitors around town. A green technology company could add wind farms or solar cells to existing areas and simulate the results.
Two versions of the “Virtual Milwaukee” are open to the public today: One in Discovery World’s HIVE virtual immersion chamber, and another in a portable inflatable 3D theater run by The Elumenati.
Autodesk today has announced a suite of 5 new software packages aimed at helping students learn core design and engineering skills.
The new bundled packages encourage a multidisciplinary educational approach, enabling faculty to teach key concepts to prepare students for rewarding architecture, engineering and design careers. These suites, to be offered globally, will be available in English as well as more than 10 other languages.
The new software packages are:
Autodesk Education Suite for Architecture and Engineering 2010
Autodesk Education Suite for Civil and Structural Engineering 2010
Autodesk Education Suite for Mechanical Engineering 2010
Autodesk Education Suite forIndustrial Design 2010
They also will offer the “Autodesk Education Master Suite 2010″, which includes all 4.
More documents are online in the SGI Bankruptcy proceedings, and I’m trying to understand some more of what’s going on. Tomorrow is the next scheduled hearing for SGI in court, so as a followup to the previous Findings, I’ve decided to post some more. I won’t clutter up the front page with them however, so click inside for the scoop. Read more…
Microsoft has thrown its hat into the ring to claim a share of US Stimulus money, and it’s doing it in a different way than you might expect. They’ve just rolled out “Stimulus360″, which is a software tool for managing data related to the stimulus.
Stimulus360 “is really a graphical dashboard, mapping and data visualization with business intelligence wrapped around,” said Teresa Carlson, Microsoft’s vice president for federal government.
There are provisions in the stimulus bill for publicly broadcasting data on how and where the money is spent, and these are in the “American Recovery and Reinvestment Act” (ARRA). As the provisions of that act are still in-flux, Microsoft is throwing it’s software engineering expertise to develop a suite of tools to allow visualization and analysis of the ever-changing data.
Currently only 6 state governments are using it, but it’s growing quickly to include more data and functionality.
1st Ave Machine has created a new commercial for Samsung’s slim TV’s called “New Species”, that .. Well, I’ll let motionographer sum it up:
Like their “Sixes Last” promo from a couple years back, “New Species” is set in a forest of the imagination. I could decry agency Cheil Worldwide for forcing a repeat performance from 1st Ave, but it’s just so damned beautiful, I really don’t care. I feel like Arvind has created a universe—or rather augmented our own—with his work. You can’t contain that kind of potential in a couple of projects.
Microsoft has thrown its hat into the ring to claim a share of US Stimulus money, and it’s doing it in a different way than you might expect. They’ve just rolled out “Stimulus360″, which is a software tool for managing data related to the stimulus.
1st Ave Machine has created a new commercial for Samsung’s slim TV’s called “New Species”, that .. Well, I’ll let motionographer sum it up:
VizWorld.com 
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