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Seamlessly Blending Technology and Renowned Sports Stars, miCoach Offers the Only Totally Connected Training Program Created by Athletes for Athletes
Powerhouse international sports brand adidas is collaborating with worldwide video game publisher THQ Inc. to bring the popular miCoach interactive athletic training system to video game consoles, the two companies announced today.
Scheduled for release in early calendar 2012, the completely connected interactive experience will feature many of the world's most well-known adidas athletes, including Dwight Howard, Kaká, Tyson Gay, Jessica Ennis, Ana Ivanovic and Eric Berry, who will guide users through a wide selection of sport-specific personalized training programs. Users will also receive real-time feedback on their actual in-game performance during their workouts when wearing a miCoach heart rate monitor (or any ANT+ compatible monitor).
Pictorvision announces that their state-of-the-art aerial system, Eclipse, will fly with the CAMERON – PACE Group’s FUSION Aerial 3D system on an upcoming 3D production, carrying digital cinema cameras. The Eclipse first flew HD cameras on the recent 2011 CBS Sports’ Masters Golf Tournament in Augusta, Georgia. Pictorvision with CAMERON – PACE Group offers the first aerial FUSION 3D system with fully functional, adjustable interocular and convergence capabilities. “We can now support 3D production with ARRI ALEXA and RED EPIC cameras,” says Tom Hallman, President of Pictorvision.
Zynga today announced the global launch of Empires & Allies, including more social features than any Zynga game. Debuting in 12 languages, Empires & Allies is the company’s first strategy combat game, a new genre for Zynga, and the company’s first title to be launched out of Zynga's Los Angeles studio. Empires & Allies will be available on June 1, 2011 in English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Indonesian, Turkish and Traditional Chinese – and for the first time, Malay, Korean and Norwegian.
Rightware Oy, the leader in 3D user-interface (UI) technology, and MasterImage 3D, Inc. the leader in autostereoscopic 3D (AS3D) display announce a strategic partnership to offer the best out-of-the-box AS3D solution for immediate deployment. The combination provides device manufacturers a fast lane for creation of the most intuitive autostereoscopic 3D design for mobile, consumer and automotive devices. A demonstration is available at MasterImage 3D’s booth at Computex 2011 (Hall 3, G0766).
NVIDIA announced today that the third annual GPU Technology Conference (GTC), the world's most important event showcasing breakthroughs in computational science with the GPU (graphics processing unit), will be held at San Jose's McEnery Convention Center from May 14-17, 2012.More Articles...
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