Henry Ford famously quipped that if he’d asked what people wanted, they’d have said, “faster horses.” There are countless numbers of ideas being funded every day that are aimed at essentially building faster horses. The result is that we have available an enormous embarrassment of riches in technology, information and economy – but how many […]
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Mixamo will be releasing the second full version of its online animation service next month.
New features in Mixamo 2 include a streamlined workflow that enables users to access animation editing features in more screens, including the search results page, and a faster, more accurate search function.
Also included will be a WebGL Viewer, developed in collaboration with Verold, which it claims will make browsing characters and animations ten times faster, and 20 new animation packs. Users will also now be able to download multiple animations at once.
“Overall, people are using Mixamo because it's ten times faster to get your characters animated in a game. We realised one of the biggest values was speed,” Mixamo CEO Stefano Corazza told Develop.
“We felt we were not fully delivering on that and we wanted Mixamo to be a lot faster and easier to use. So we focused on the user experience.
“We were also losing people at the beginning because they had to install a plugin, so we wanted to just make the whole experience as good and as fast as possible. That was the main driver behind all the changes we have made.”
For more details, you can watch a video introducing Mixamo 2 below.
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With all the noise surrounding the Io.js variant of Node.js, it's easy to forget about another Node fork that's been quietly percolating: JXcore. Last year it added multithreading (sort of) and the ability to turn Node apps into stand-alone executables -- but at the cost of JXcore being a closed source project.
La corporation di Redmond ha annunciato l’intenzione di implementare asm.js sulle future versioni dell’engine JavaScript Chakra, fatto che implica la disponibilità della tecnologia sui browser Microsoft che saranno parte integrante di Windows 10.
La libreria asm.js include un sotto-set delle funzioni di JavaScript, e permette di migliorare sensibilmente le performance delle applicazioni Web con la compilazione in JavaScript di codice scritto con linguaggi nativi come C.
Con asm.js è possibile raggiungere prestazioni Web quasi paragonabili al software nativo, sostiene Microsoft; una volta integrata in Chakra, la funzionalità sarà disponibile sia su Internet Explorer che su Spartan, il browser …
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ARM acquired Offspark, a Netherlands-based supplier of Transport Layer Security, that will get folded into its mbed operating system for its Cortex-M cores. ARM aims to make mbed, announced in October , a unifying code base for the fragmented Internet of Things where security is an increasingly key concern.
How would you like to play with LEGO all day? To children and adults alike, a pile of LEGO offers such possibilities—whole worlds and inhabitants in that familiar tableau of right-angles and vibrant mismatched colors. And then some people take their LEGO a little more seriously.
Behind CogniToys’ plastic dinosaur exterior lies a machine learning system based on Watson, the cognitive technology IBM once used in a supercomputer to beat humans at Jeopardy.
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