Motion

AMD has released a new Adrenalin Edition GPU driver. It carries version 24.1.1 and brings two big features, AMD Fluid Motion Frames (AFMF) and AMD Video Upscaling. What is AMD Fluid Motion Frames (AFMF)? AMD Fluid Motion Frames is a frame-generation feature. It generates frames in games to increase the frame rates to offer a smoother gaming performance. According to the company, when coupled with AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 2 (FSR 2), AFMF increases the frame rates up to 97% on average in games at 1080p resolution,…

In a new post on X (previously known as Twitter), Asus has announced that it has started rolling out an update to Armoury Crate SE (ACSE) for the ROG Ally. Along with that, the company has also given an update about the AMD Fluid Motion Frames (AFMF) feature for the handheld gaming console. Starting with the update to ACSE, it bumps the software’s version to 1.4.10 and brings four significant improvements. Armoury Crate SE v1.4.10 for ROG Ally The biggest improvement is the addition of the Manual mode to the Operating…

The elements of social practices. Sociotechnical practices, like motion capture, inherit assumptions that are baked into their elements, including earlier versions of those elements. Assumptions that give rise to the practice in the first place also spread by way of those elements being combined and recombined. As practices evolve and stabilize, the assumptions that undergird them solidify. Credit: arXiv (2024). https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.10877v1…

A Warner Bros. feature film, referred to as “BC” to the public, was previously announced to begin shooting mid January locally. Film industry buffs have speculated this project could be a Warner Bros. film directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, following a Deadline scoop highlighting more production details about the film. Deadline reported Wednesday the Anderson film stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn and Regina Hall. The name and details of the plot are under wraps. This film is set to begin production Jan. 21 in Northern…

Spatial Audio, for a long time, was the feature of the expensive smart speaker. The territory of the larger Sonos Speakers, costly soundbars, and the HomePod 2. SoundCore, the audio offshoot of Anker, shifted the dial on the Spatial audio availability matrix and brought the standard to the masses with the excellent Motion X600, a Bluetooth speaker with a premium build, wicked audio, and that all-important Spatial audio.Now, the firm has turned the dial again, and given us more budget brilliance in the form of the Motion…

In 2014, Nvidia launched Ultra Low Motion Blur (ULMB) and in 2023, the company launched Ultra Low Motion Blur 2 (ULMB2). Both technologies aim to reduce motion blur in a display/monitor by using a technique called backlight strobing. However, neither ULMB nor ULMB2 works with a variable refresh rate (VRR). VRR is a feature that syncs a monitor’s refresh rate and a graphics card’s output. It is offered in many forms, including AMD FreeSync, Nvidia G-Sync, and VESA Adaptive Sync. Well, to solve that issue, Nvidia has…

Oppenheimer is ending the 2024 Golden Globes with a whopping five awards! The Christopher Nolan-directed film won the award for Best Motion Picture – Drama at the 2024 awards show Sunday. “Can you hear my heart beating? Because it’s a go crazy,” said Emma Thomas, the film’s producer, who accepted the award on behalf of the cast and crew during the last award of the evening. “This was just an incredible experience making this film. This is just the smallest portion of the many people that made the film what it…

Parmy Olson / Bloomberg: A profile of Midjourney founder David Holz, who co-founded Leap Motion in 2008 before a $30M sale in 2019, as the AI art tool prepares for the 2024 US elections — David Holz built a tool for human imagination. What happens if that turns into a propaganda engine in 2024? Parmy Olson / Bloomberg: A profile of Midjourney founder David Holz, who co-founded Leap Motion in 2008 before a $30M sale in 2019, as the AI art tool prepares for the 2024 US elections …

Donald Trump’s former lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, accidentally gave his lawyer phony legal citations — which were then used in a motion given to a federal judge — conjured by Google’s artificial intelligence chatbot, Google Bard. Per The New York Times, Cohen pulled the citations when trying to aid his lawyer with a motion related to his 2018 guilty plea for campaign finance violations. Cohen spent just over a year in prison (he was released early in 2020 due to Covid-19) but remained under court supervision.…

The defamation trial will begin in January after an appeals court rejected Trump's presidential immunity defense and a motion to stay that ruling E. Jean Carroll’s defamation trial against Donald Trump will go ahead in January after an appeals court rejected the former president’s motion to stay a previous ruling denying his attempt to use presidential immunity as a defense. Trump’s legal team filed the motion last week, seeking a 90-day stay to consider other appellate court options, or…