Designers, artists, and 3D professionals across different industries know there’s nothing better than a powerful computer that cuts through your processes like warm butter. Whether it’s 3D CAD, animation, video production, or complex simulations, a computer with hardware and software tailored to the work you do makes work life that much better. And that’s MAINGEAR’s focus. This week, they announced its newest high-performance computer build, the Pro WS Workstation – a desktop tower that comes in either pre-configured or customizable flavors allowing you to optimize your rig for your software needs. CPU options abound and bring huge power with Intel Core i9 8-core and 18-core options or AMD Ryzen 16-core…
Using your hands in VR can often feel like using two clubs to eat a sandwich. Though the past decade gave us a glimpse into motion/hand tracking, it’s really only recently that it has had a jump in accuracy and functionality. Dennys Kuhnert, Co-founder and COO of Holonautic, a Swiss VR experience and game maker, has shared a new project demonstrating where we’re at with the technology and some potential applications. Hand Physics Lab is a project that pushes the limits of hand tracking, combining it with physics to provide a more life-like VR experience. Dennys has shared several tweets previewing the interaction physics of virtual objects. And then there’s…
Weeks-long isolation brings out the creative juices in us all, but for Japanese Twitter user and cardboard enthusiast koshiyoda, she’s using her powers for one of the most important people in her life: her son. Yes, A Cardboard Laptop After seeing his older brother (who is in junior high school) take part in an online class using his laptop, the young boy went to his mom and asked for a computer of his very own. Now, seeing as a real laptop would be a bit costly, koshiyoda opted to MAKE her son a laptop… from cardboard. But if you thought it was a glue and corrugated paper mess, you’re in…
The practical uses of AR/VR are becoming more apparent every day, especially for design and engineering, where we’re able to design in VR or collaborate in AR. What if you boil it down even further and mix common computer actions with common AR needs? Scan/Capture + Copy/Paste? Cyril Diagne is a french digital interaction artist who just demonstrated one example of what that may look like with a video and example code that allows you to scan and capture everyday objects with your mobile phone camera and paste them into documents or image editing software. 4/10 – Cut & paste your surroundings to PhotoshopCode: https://t.co/cVddH3u3ikBook: @HOLOmagazineGarment: SS17 by @thekarentopacio Type:…
It’s hard to take a break between long computer sessions, whether it’s because you’re “in the zone”, finishing a personal project or slammin’ pixels for project deadline. But with MagnetCubes, I think we’ll find ways to jump off the computer an hour or five for some good ol’ fashion play. MagnetCubes Modular Magnetic Blocks To put it simply, MagnetCubes are a series of stackable magnetic blocks with a variety of connectable tracks. First, you create the transparent cube structure of your dreams, then you snap the red marble tracks through or around the cubes to make your own little marble coaster. Your marble coaster may consist of a one-way track,…
The spindles dropped through the clouds in a rhythm one by one then returning. It had happened for years and only with the clouds of the fifth moon. It wasn’t until years later that we would learn these were the legs of the Clenderbeasts sprinting through the rain layer of these links. Jan Sarbort – Jan is a Prague-based concept artist in film and game with a particular knack for massive sky city scenes. Thanks, Ron! British Museum Collection – The British Museum has put 4.5 million pieces of their collection online from Egypt and the Americas to sculptures, paintings, and more. Citizen DJ – Listen to sounds from Library…