NVIDIA Reveals Holodeck, Its Groundbreaking Project for Photorealistic,...
NVIDIA today announced Project Holodeck, a photorealistic, collaborative virtual reality environment that incorporates the feeling of real-world presence through sight, sound and haptics. The Holodeck...
View ArticleMental Ray for 3ds Max Gets Major Boost
Mental Ray for 3ds Max is available directly from NVIDIA — for free starting this week. It includes all the functionality 3ds Max users rely on, coupled with updated workflows and enhanced material...
View ArticleHow We Used AI in a Video That Tells the Story of AI
I am AI. With those words, AI revealed itself Wednesday at our GPU Technology Conference as a technology that can not only change the world, but create a soundtrack for its own technology revolution....
View ArticleIntensive Care: How AI Could Rejuvenate U.S. Healthcare
It’s no secret that the U.S. healthcare system needs help. What’s more surprising is the role AI can play in fixing it. In a talk at the GPU Technology Conference, Dr. Michael Dahlweid, chief medical...
View ArticleNVIDIA Delivers New Deep Learning Software Tools for Developers
To help developers meet the growing complexity of deep learning, NVIDIA today announced better and faster tools for our software development community. This includes a significant update to the NVIDIA...
View ArticleNVIDIA Accelerates AI, Launches Volta, DGX Workstation, Robot Simulator, More
The AI revolution sweeping the globe just got faster. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang Wednesday launched Volta, a new GPU architecture that delivers 5x the performance of its predecessor before a record crowd...
View ArticleThese Six AI Startups Just Snagged a Share of $1.5 Million in Cash Prizes
Hollywood-style lights in NVIDIA green. A champagne toast. And the envelope, please. The gala awards event celebrating winners of NVIDIA’s Inception competition for AI startups had the trappings of...
View ArticleForget Reading the Road, This Automotive AI Reads You
Stories are rife of the obstacles that developers of self-driving cars must overcome — challenges related to sensors, machine learning, real-time data analysis and reaction times. But we haven’t heard...
View ArticleWant Drones to Fly Right? Make Them Hallucinate, MIT Prof Says
How do you teach a drone to fly better? Make it hallucinate. Okay. So how do you make a drone hallucinate? With VR, of course. Still with us? Good. Let’s explain. MIT’s Sertac Karaman has been building...
View ArticleHow Deep Learning Will Stir More Joy into Your Cooking
We all need all the help we can get in the kitchen. Whether that involves meal planning or roasting the perfect chicken, deep learning promises to help bring more to the joy of cooking. Thanks to deep...
View ArticleWhose Sign Is It Anyway? AI Translates Sign Language Into Text
Deaf people can’t hear. Most hearing people don’t understand sign language. Syed Ahmed, research assistant at Rochester Institute of Technology, speaking at GTC 2017. That’s a communication gap AI can...
View ArticleThe Robot Will See You Now, Even If It Won’t Replace Your Doc
A robot takeover of medicine? Not so fast, says Stanford University’s Daniel Rubin. While AI can be a reliable medical tool, it’s not going to replace your doctor, said Rubin, an associate professor of...
View ArticleGTC Showcases How AI Is Driving Autonomous Vehicles
Self-driving cars need AI, and we delivered big on AI at the GPU Technology Conference in Silicon Valley this week. During his keynote, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang made a host of announcements...
View ArticleNurulize Takes Home GTC’s Grand Prize at VR Content Showcase
It doesn’t take a VR headset to see the future, but it helps. Our second VR Content Showcase, held this week at the GPU Technology Conference, featured a record 120 entrants, pitches by 10 finalists...
View ArticleArchitects, Engineers, Designers Ditch Blueprints for VR Experiences
The visual world of architecture, engineering and design is a fertile ground for virtual reality. GPU Technology Conference attendees last week got a broad view an industry being transformed by this...
View ArticleGuardian Angel: Why Your Next Car May Have an AI Co-Pilot
Self-driving cars are meant to keep us safe. But even if you drive yourself, AI could be looking out for you. If configured to do so, AI, like a guardian angel, could even take over the car. NVIDIA CEO...
View ArticleAI Podcast: AI Will Enhance VR, Founder of IBM’s VR/AR Labs Effort Says
Romeo and Juliet. Peanut butter and chocolate. AI and VR. “They are star-crossed lovers, they’re destined for one another,” Director of Product for Watson Developer Labs Michael Ludden quipped. During...
View ArticleGTC Doubleheader: AI, Robotics Events Draws 300 Teen Technologists
Hundreds of Ph.D.s prowled the hallways of the eighth annual GPU Technology Conference in San Jose last week to catch up on the latest developments in AI. Also in attendance were hundreds of teens,...
View ArticleWhat’s a Generative Adversarial Network? Leading Researcher Explains
If you haven’t yet heard of generative adversarial networks, don’t worry, you will. The hottest topic in deep learning, GANs, as they’re called, have the potential to create systems that learn more...
View ArticleAI Podcast: Using Deep Learning to Improve the Hands-Free, Voice Experience
“Ok Google;” “Alexa…” We’re familiar with these commands that wake up, say, our Amazon Echo or Google Home. But what would the future of intelligent devices look like if we could bounce from using...
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