Web 2.0 Summit, SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.— Oct. 20, 2009— NVIDIA, inventor of the graphics processing unit (GPU), and mental images, world leader in rendering technologies, introduced today the NVIDIA® RealityServer® platform for cloud computing, a powerful combination of GPUs and software that streams interactive, photorealistic 3D applications to any web connected PC, laptop, netbook and smart phone. more

Providing filmmakers, editors and designers with quick and easy access to a wider variety of 100 percent royalty-free stock footage, Artbeats, the industry’s leading creative footage resource, today announced its launch of FootageHub. Previously available in public beta trial, FootageHub is an extension of the Artbeats library and allows customers to search from a large database of clips derived from over 50 different brands, 20 of which are exclusive to FootageHub. With thousands of diverse and hard-to-acquire shots, Artbeats FootageHub immediately broadens stock footage opportunities for any project or budget range. more

Expanding its technical leadership within the character animation space, Mixamo Inc. today announced support for Autodesk 3ds Max software biped system control rigs, significantly streamlining animation workflow for 3D artists and game developers.

Previously relying only on traditional motion-capture and keyframing processes to animate biped characters, 3ds Max users are now able to obtain access to Mixamo’s online collection of customizable, motion-capture quality character motions and bake them directly onto their bipeds. Mixamo accelerates productivity of artists and game developers by allowing the creation of premium 3D character animations up to five times faster than current industry averages. more

IBC 2009, AMSTERDAM-SEP 10, 2009- NVIDIA Corporation, the worldwide leader in visual computing, is making it possible for production houses to work faster and easier with the immense quantity of high-resolution data generated for HDTV, Blu-Ray and 4K digital cinema.

Innovative companies such as da Vinci Systems, Lowry Digital, ASSIMILATE and GIC are leveraging the CUDA™ parallel computing architecture of NVIDIA ® processors to solve a variety of critical challenges facing broadcast and film professionals, including color balancing, film restoration, visual effects creation and video format encoding.

CUDA Architecture Accelerates Color Grading

da Vinci Systems, a leading provider of color-enhancement products used in post-production facilities worldwide, recently announced a powerful new version of its da Vinci Resolve digital mastering suite, based on da Vinci’s C.O.R.E. (CUDA Optimized Resolve Engine). The new solution harnesses the massively parallel processing capabilities of the NVIDIA® Quadro® more

IBC 2009, Amsterdam-SEP 10, 2009- NVIDIA Corporation today announced the international premiere and release of the NVIDIA® Quadro® Digital Video Pipeline, the industry’s first integrated, GPU-based platform for real-time acquisition, processing and delivery of high resolution video.

The Quadro Digital Video Pipeline, based on the NVIDIA® CUDA® parallel computing architecture, is a complete solution designed for broadcast, new media and film production professionals. This innovative system delivers the fastest graphics processing available for video production in a flexible, reliable and cost-effective workstation or server-based platform.

Ideal Solution for Real-time Effects and Virtual Sets

The Quadro Digital Video Pipeline empowers professionals with the ability to incorporate higher quality, graphic-rich effects and virtual sets into live broadcasts. By providing a direct path for image processing into and out of the NVIDIA Quadro graphics processing unit (GPU), broadcasters are able to use this system to create more

PALO ALTO, Calif., Aug. 4, 2009 - HP today announced it will make available Elemental Accelerator™ for NVIDIA® Quadro® plug-in for Adobe Creative Suite 4 users as an option on the company’s award-winning family of workstations. more

SANTA CLARA, CA-AUGUST 5, 2009- When NASA’s original Apollo 11 moon landing video was accidentally destroyed, it seemed the world had lost a visual record of one of man’s greatest achievements. Fortunately, unique digital video restoration technology from Lowry Digital, powered by NVIDIA® Tesla™ GPUs (graphics processing units) with CUDA™ technology, has enhanced television coverage of the original video so that we can now watch Neil Armstrong take a giant leap for mankind in high-definition (HD). more

SIGGRAPH 2009, NEW ORLEANS—Aug. 4, 2009—NVIDIA, the leader in GPU computing, today introduced the NVIDIA® OptiX™ ray tracing engine, part of a suite of application acceleration engines for software developers. NVIDIA acceleration engines make it easy to incorporate valuable, high-performance capabilities into applications, while simultaneously reducing development time. more

SIGGRAPH 2009, NEW ORLEANS—Aug. 4, 2009—NVIDIA today unveiled new breakthrough Quadro® Plex solutions targeted at scalable visualization professionals who interact with 3D models and analyze large volumes of data. These cost-effective visual computing platforms are designed to power a wide range of ultra-high resolution and multi-channel collaboration environments − ranging from interpretation desktops to visualization walls to network operations centers. more

SAN FRANCISCO - July 27, 2009 – Fueled by successful entrepreneurial founders, a high-profile advisory board from the game industry and $4 million in venture capital (VC) funding from Granite Ventures and Keynote Ventures, Mixamo Inc. today announced its debut as a company. Based on research from Stanford University’s BioMotion Lab and co-founded by 3D pioneers, Nazim Kareemi, CEO, and Stefano Corazza, CTO, Mixamo plans to bring to market the first online service for customizing and creating high-quality character animation in a fraction of the time required by traditional methods. more