What does WAN acceleration do? WAN optimization or WAN acceleration is a suite of techniques that provides WAN caching and optimization...

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NVIDIA today announced NeuralVDB, which brings the power of AI to OpenVDB, the industry-standard library for simulating and rendering sparse volumetric data, such as water, fire, smoke and clouds. Building on the past decade’s development of OpenVDB, the introduction at SIGGRAPH of NeuralVDB is a game-changer for professionals working in areas like scientific computing and Read article >

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The creation of 3D objects for building scenes for games, virtual worlds including the metaverse, product design or visual effects is traditionally a meticulous process, where skilled artists balance detail and photorealism against deadlines and budget pressures. It takes a long time to make something that looks and acts as it would in the physical Read article >

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For cutting-edge visual effects and virtual production, creative teams and studios benefit from digital sets and environments that can be updated in real time. A crucial element in any virtual production environment is a sky dome, often used to provide realistic lighting for virtual environments and in-camera visual effects. Legendary studio Industrial Light & Magic Read article >

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NVIDIA AI tools are enabling deep learning-powered performance capture for creators at every level: visual effects and animation studios, creative professionals — even any enthusiast with a camera. With NVIDIA Vid2Vid Cameo, creators can harness AI to capture their facial movements and expressions from any standard 2D video taken with a professional camera or smartphone. Read article >

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In a swift, eye-popping special address at SIGGRAPH, NVIDIA execs described the forces driving the next era in graphics, and the company’s expanding range of tools to accelerate them. “The combination of AI and computer graphics will power the metaverse, the next evolution of the internet,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA, kicking Read article >

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A glimpse into the future of AI-infused virtual worlds was on display at SIGGRAPH — the world’s largest gathering of computer graphics experts — as NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang put the finishing touches on the company’s special address.

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How do I start a career as a deep learning engineer? What are some of the key tools and frameworks used in AI? How do I learn more about ethics in AI? Everyone has questions, but the most common questions in AI always return to this: how do I get involved? Cutting through the hype Read article >

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3D content creators are clamoring for NVIDIA Instant NeRF, an inverse rendering tool that turns a set of static images into a realistic 3D scene. Since its debut earlier this year, tens of thousands of developers around the world have downloaded the source code and used it to render spectacular scenes, sharing eye-catching results on Read article >

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It’s the first GFN Thursday of the month and you know the drill — GeForce NOW is bringing a big batch of games to the cloud. Get ready for 38 exciting titles like Saints Row and Rumbleverse arriving on the GeForce NOW library in August. Members can kick off the month streaming 13 new games Read article >

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Pinterest has engineered a way to serve its photo-sharing community more of the images they love. The social-image service, with more than 400 million monthly active users, has trained bigger recommender models for improved accuracy at predicting people’s interests. Pinterest handles hundreds of millions of user requests an hour on any given day. And it Read article >

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Imagine hiking to a lake on a summer day — sitting under a shady tree and watching the water gleam under the sun. In this scene, the differences between light and shadow are examples of direct and indirect lighting. The sun shines onto the lake and the trees, making the water look like it’s shimmering Read article >

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