This week, Will, Norm, and Jeremy discuss Google I/O, the Windows 10 launch date, Google’s updates to Now On Tap, future materials, the Jacquard Loom, and another edition of the VR minute. Enjoy!
One Day Builds
Adam embarks on one of his most ambitious builds yet: fulfil…
Show And Tell
Adam recently completed a build of the royal St. Edwards cro…
Making
Viewers often ask to see Adam working in real-time, so this …
One Day Builds
Adam and Norm assemble a beautifully machined replica prop k…
One Day Builds
One of the ways Adam has been getting through lockdown has b…
Making
Adam unboxes and performs a quick test of this novel new hel…
Making
When Adam visited Weta Workshop early last year, he stopped …
One Day Builds
Adam tackles a shop shelf build that he's been putting off f…
Show And Tell
Time for a model kit build! This steampunk-inspired mechanic…
One Day Builds
Adam reveals his surprise Christmas present for his wife--a …
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In regards to practical uses for a GPU with 12 GB of VRAM (like the Titan Black), as a 3D artist using Octane Render, I can tell you that high end graphics cards (of 4 GB VRAM or more) used to be an absolute requirement, as Octane used to cache all the geometry, scene textures, and lighting information (like HDRI) right on the GPU. Complex scenes with millions of polygons and high res textures could easily eat up all of that VRAM, so all of my cards on my render rigs are 4 GB and up (most of my cards are the 6 GB Titans).
I say used to, however, because the latest version of Octane Render now uses out-of-core textures, allowing an end-user to allocate an amount of their PC’s RAM to aid in caching textures, and now even geometry… so yeah… I’m not sure who NVIDIA is making 12 GB cards for.
How are you not all watching Silicon Valley?! That show is hilarious and one of very few TV shows worth watching.
I love Kung Fury!
Re home automation, there was an article posted by Time magazine yesterday reporting that Windows 10 will be shipping with the AllJoyn open source home automation framework. This will enable Windows 10 devices to control other AllJoyn enabled products; unlike Apple no special chips are required.
http://time.com/3908793/windows-10-feature/
It’s funny because I just listened to the episode of 99% invisible where they mentioned the “driveway moment” and broadcast clocks.
See you at SDCC!
You’re totally right: 12 GB is exciting for research computing. One example of where you need a lot of on-board RAM is for convolutional neural networks for computer vision purposes. The bigger the RAM, the bigger the network, the better the performance, essentially.
Awww, my question for the podcast didn’t make it in, but maybe I asked a dumb question. Though, trying to google the answer didn’t help either, so I dunno.
Pretty sure the $1500 number the Irbe mentioned was to be “all in” if you needed to buy a new pc. so the $1500 was with the oculus included in that number.
Is it just me or are the sounds from Will’s MacBook too quiet lately?
Why no mention of Brillo or weave?
you know what would be a cool thing to do with google cardboard. you could do an escape he room game with puzzles in the real world and a virtual world.
Holy crap, Jeremy was halfway through making the “if you’re not doing anything wrong…” argument in favor of mass surveillance before Will rightfully cut him off. Come on, Jeremy, the distopian future we expect does not need to be welcomed. Wow.
Every time that “Hey Siri” is said in Tested’s videos my phone goes off…
I checked the steam refund page and it says “You will be issued a full refund of your purchase within a week of approval. You will receive the refund in Steam Wallet funds or through the same payment method you used to make the purchase.” Thought you would want to know
I just saying I love listening to your podcasts. Thank you for all your work:-) I just wanted let you know I appreciate it.
Hey Norm, we’d love to here more or your impressions of Kung Fury!
I have advice for people trying to dispose of their old machines.
https://youtu.be/XGnSggUrvPM
Scorched Earth is one of my oldest favourite video games.
yes it is only in countries where direct credit card refund are not allowed that you get Steam Bucks
“Remember when there was only one advanced graphics card to buy?”
Yes. Hercules Graphics card.
Boom!!