Wireless Home Digital Interface (WHDI) is a wireless standard that allows uncompressed delivery of high-definition video. This would allow a person to have a personal computer in one room with e WHDI capable graphics card, and allow it to stream a movie to a WHDI enabled HDTV in another room. We have talked about WHDI before, and even included a review of it from PC Perspective. Today, Guru3D brings you another review of the KFA2 GTX 460 WDHI graphics card. What did they think of WHDI?
WHDI in the sense of the wireless signal works pretty darn well. Advertised you get 100 Ft / 33 Meters at your disposal to work with. Now we can’t 100% concur how exact that figure is, as a lot of the distance available to you will depend on how cluttered your 5 GHz band is. For example if your neighbors all love and use Wireless N routers, that might hinder the signal.
However, we have a 5G enabled router as well, and our network is cluttered and smeared with wireless signals yet that did not stop this solution to break through one concrete iron bar enforced floor and a distance of roughly 10 meters. In this environment we had a flawless signal.
Impressive stuff. I like the sheer innovation and technology here.
A big part of the world is still celebrating Valentine’s Day, so we’re bringing today some of the nicest infographics about this special date – you can check a lot more here. The Valentine’s Day gift economy, brought by Savings, gives us a perspective of the money involved on the shopping around for our loved ones. Then, some facts about the day, by Overstock and McCollins Media, followed by the Social Networking Americans’ Valentine’s Day plans, by Mashable, and finally, a curious take on Email and Romance at Work, presented by NewsGrange.
Zoic Studios got the almost envious job of shattering the figure of Simon Cowell into millions of pieces for a Super Bowl ad for upcoming show “The X Factor”. Unfortunately, they did have to put him back together again.
To create the effect, a variety of plaster forms simulating Simon Cowell’s legs, torso and head were detonated at high speed (1000-1500 fps) and shot on the Zoic Studios Stage. A week later on a London sound stage, high-speed principal photography captured multiple angles of Simon Cowell, both static and spinning on a turntable, against an all-black environment with heavy backlight. Additionally, Simon Cowell was 3D scanned to provide high-resolution textures for the eventual 3D model of his full body. Autodesk’s Maya was then used to fracture and explode the 3D model
Get all the details in the release after the break.
There’s a new viz conference on this horizon this year, Sponsored by IEEE and co-located with IEEE VisWeek. This year will mark the 1st IEEE Symposium on Biological Data Visualization.
BioVis 2011 – the 1st IEEE Symposium on Biological Data Visualization – aims at bringing together researchers from the visualization, bioinformatics, and biology communities to establish an interdisciplinary dialogue and to promote the sharing of expertise, between both meeting participants and the communities at large. The meeting is intended to educate, inspire, and engage visualization researchers in problems in biological data visualization, as well as bioinformatics and biology researchers in state-of-the-art visualization research.
Looks like VisWeek is gonna be a doozy this year, bringing BioVis, InfoVis, VAST, and IEEE Vis alltogether in one place (along with the usual surrounding mini-conferences).
Submission deadline for papers is April 30th. Full details are on their site.
Someone sent me this interesting machinima video, showing off some great Second Life and AfterEffects skills. The sim itself is open now at this SLURL, and really shows some fantastic modeling work.
So, our Friday selection begins with a serious health issue, a devastating condition that affects so many families, and that can be visualized on JESS3‘s recent infographic: Autism. The economics of raising a Child, from Infographic 5, and the true size of the Counterfeit Drug Industry, made by SiteJabber, are also quite impressive. Last, but not least, a couple of designs focusing on our food habits and lifestyle: Vegans by the numbers, from Vegan Cooking, and PETA‘s shocking truth about eating animals.
Now this is a cool touchscreen! I could see this being used in an actual class instead of just as a tour stop.
This is the curved screen in our reality center of the University of Groningen. We just finished building our own touch detection for it. We used six Optitrack v120 slim camera’s which have a good sensitivity for infrared light. We used 16 cheap infrared emitters (the kind used for security systems) with a total of 1000 LED’s.
The touch detection software runs on three old computers each with two camera’s connected. One extra computer combines the output from the detection computers and send event data to our main visualization system. This way we have (even using the old computers) enough processing power to be able to run the detection software at 60Hz and with a latency between 30 ms and 50 ms. It can detect without any problem 100 different touches at any time (more is possible, but it becomes slower)
We used a modified version of Community Core Vision (CCV) 1.4 (nuigroup.com) (modified so it can do two camera’s on one computer). The communication protocol is preferable TUIO (tuio.org) and we did install Multi-touch Vista (multitouchvista.codeplex.com), which translates TUIO events to WM_TOUCH events for windows 7. The demos you see in the video are from Multitouch for Java.
The curved screen itself is consist of a 3 mm dark acrylic layer, coated with a diffuser on the front. Illumination is from behind using six full HD projectors. The cameras and the IR-leds are also located behind the screen.
The Chaos Group, creators of the V-Ray rendering system, has just announced that they are acquiring US company ASGVIS. ASGVIS is well known in the VRay community as the creators of the VRay for Rhino and VRay for SketchUp plugins, so it’s an obvious move for Chaos and great news for the community at large.
A working relationship with the two companies began in 2005 when ASGVIS adapted Chaos Group’s flagship rendering plug-in, V-Ray*, to work with the modeling software applications Rhinoceros* and SketchUp*. In addition to developing these two products, ASGVIS resold Chaos Group’s V-Ray for 3ds Max* and V-Ray for Maya*. Joining the two development teams under Chaos Group will ensure consistency among the V-Ray products.
Officially renamed “Chaos Group USA”, everything will remain the same for now (same staff, same products). Over time, they’ll evaluate individual products for inclusion into their mainstream offerings.
NVidia has just announced that GTC2011 will be this Octobery in the San Jose McEnery Convention Center, with several of last year’s sponsors and exhibitors already lining up for a shot. And to make this year’s event even bigger, it will be colocated with the Accelerated High Performance Computing Symposium sponsored by Los Alamos National Laboratory.
A leading U.S. national security research institution, Los Alamos National Laboratory has been hosting the Accelerated HPC Symposium as a stand-alone event with the goal of bringing together world leaders in supercomputing to share knowledge and help solve the world’s most crucial technology challenges. This event will now take place during GTC 2011, and will be co-hosted by Los Alamos National Lab and NVIDIA.
Ben Bergen, research scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, said, “The growing success of GTC makes it a natural venue for co-hosting the Accelerated HPC Symposium. This event draws senior scientists from national research labs across the globe, and their interests in hardware and software development make for a perfect match with GTC.”
Although we’re already in mid February, there’s still room for another 2010 Social Media recap, this time from Belgium company Telenet. And one of last year’s most successful campaigns was the Old Spice YouTube video series, and designer Shelby White made a poster with all the amazing numbers involving it. Socialcast explains how Social Media strengthens companies, The Grasshopper Group made a great infographic inspired on the works of futurist Ray Kurzweil (“the ultimate thinking machine”, as Forbes calls him), and we close this selection with a look at the use of Cloud Computing in the U.S. Government, brought by Oh My Gov.
A big part of the world is still celebrating Valentine’s Day, so we’re bringing today some of the nicest infographics about this special date – you can check a lot more 
Zoic Studios got the almost envious job of shattering the figure of Simon Cowell into millions of pieces for a Super Bowl ad for upcoming show “The X Factor”. Unfortunately, they did have to put him back together again.
There’s a new viz conference on this horizon this year, Sponsored by IEEE and co-located with IEEE VisWeek. This year will mark the 1st IEEE Symposium on Biological Data Visualization.
Someone sent me this interesting machinima video, showing off some great Second Life and AfterEffects skills. The sim itself is open now at 
So, our Friday selection begins with a serious health issue, a devastating condition that affects so many families, and that can be visualized on 
The Chaos Group, creators of the V-Ray rendering system, has just announced that they are acquiring US company ASGVIS. ASGVIS is well known in the VRay community as the creators of the VRay for Rhino and VRay for SketchUp plugins, so it’s an obvious move for Chaos and great news for the community at large.
NVidia has just announced that GTC2011 will be this Octobery in the San Jose McEnery Convention Center, with several of last year’s sponsors and exhibitors already lining up for a shot. And to make this year’s event even bigger, it will be colocated with the Accelerated High Performance Computing Symposium sponsored by Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Although we’re already in mid February, there’s still room for another 2010 Social Media recap, this time from Belgium company 
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