Innatera Secures $21M to Drive Neuromorphic AI to 1 Billion Devices by 2030

Innatera, the trailblazer in ultra-low power neuromorphic processors, has announced the successful closure of an oversubscribed Series A funding round, attracting a cumulative $21 million. This substantial investment includes the initial $16 million secured in March 2024 and an additional $5 million from new investors. Leading…

Go Live Anywhere with LiveU Solo Pro – Videoguys

Step 1: Select your LiveU Solo PRO Encoder
Solo PRO joins the LiveU Solo family of plug-and-play encoders for on-the-go live content. Now with 4K and HEVC video quality and the reliability of 5G connectivity

Step 2: SoloConnect Modem Kits Give You Cellular Connectivity
LiveU Solo Pro is compatible with the new SoloPro Modem Kits for North American and International Streaming Capabilities. The SoloPro Modem Kit are available in a 2 modem pack and a 4 modem package for those who require even more cellular connections.

The LiveU Solo PRO has two USB inputs for the 2 modems. No extra cables needed! Designed for robust performance, LiveU Net modems offer the highest reliability compared to other carrier-branded USB modems. Equipped with LiveU’s managed SIM cards, the modems inherently support multiple cellular carriers and have been successfully tested with all LiveU units.
For the LiveU Solo Pro with the North America or Traveler plans.

A complete bundle for your Solo PRO device with belt pack, modems, and cables. This bundle includes:

  • 4x LU Net 4G Modems
  • 4x Sims U.S. version 
  • LiveU Solo PRO Belt Pack
  • 2x Y Cables
  • HDMI Extension Cable
  • HDMI Tension Clip
  • Getting started card
  • LiveU Solo PRO (HDMI/SDI) Encoder must be purchased separately

Step 3: Activate your Unlimited Data Plans with LiveU using SoloConnect Services
The LiveU Solo PRO Connect 2 Modem Kit must be activated with a North American plan that includes United States, Mexico, and Canada for $295/month. For International usage there is also a Travelers plan for $520/month.

The LiveU Solo PRO Connect 4 Modem Kit must be activated with a North American plan that includes United States, Mexico, and Canada for $435/month. For International usage there is also a Travelers plan for $750/month.


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Plus FREE SoloConnect 2 Modem Kit Bundle – $450 value!

Go Live Anywhere with LiveU Solo Pro – Videoguys

Designed for you to support clients of all sizes and budgets.

Whether it’s a single or multi-cam production, a fixed per unit cost will provide you with the flexibility to build a solution, by paying only for the events you produce.

You stay in control of your own costs and can scale up or scale down as required, giving you a risk-free way to expand your production capacity. 

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Choose the right encoder. Between the LU300S or the LU800, you’ll get the high-quality solution you need

Massive Savings

It’s simple. Pay when you use it. This cost-effective solution allows you to save costs on every production

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Dragon Age Cover Story And Shadow of the Erdtree Review | GI Show

Dragon Age Cover Story And Shadow of the Erdtree Review | GI Show

In this week’s episode of The Game Informer Show, the crew discusses our recent trip to Bioware for our Dragon Age: The Veilguard cover story, our Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree review, PS5-bound multiplayer shooter, Concord, a new battle royale from former League of Legends developers, atmospheric horror title Still Wakes the Deep, Dustborn, Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD and even more! It’s a packed show, y’all. 

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The Game Informer Show is a weekly gaming podcast covering the latest video game news, industry topics, exclusive reveals, and reviews. Join us every Thursday to chat about your favorite games – past and present – with Game Informer staff, developers, and special guests from around the industry. Listen on Apple PodcastsSpotify, or your favorite podcast app.

The Game Informer Show – Podcast Timestamps:

00:00:00 – Intro

00:02:42 – Cover Story: Dragon Age: The Veilguard

00:21:48 – Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree Review

00:42:20 – Concord Preview

00:59:04 – Supervive Preview

01:11:59 – The Plucky Squire

01:24:37 – Magic: The Gathering – Assassin’s Creed

01:35:01 – Still Wakes the Deep

01:45:52 – Dustborn Preview

01:55:06 – Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD Review

01:58:26 – Housekeeping

Redefining the CFO: Navigating the AI Revolution in Finance

A 2024 survey by Gartner indicates a striking trend: 71 percent of CFOs plan to increase their investments in AI by 10 percent or more compared to 2023. The rapid advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is ushering in a new era for CFOs, presenting them with…

From Prompt Engineering to Few-Shot Learning: Enhancing AI Model Responses

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has witnessed rapid advancements over the past few years, particularly in Natural Language Processing (NLP). From chatbots that simulate human conversation to sophisticated models that can draft essays and compose poetry, AI’s capabilities have grown immensely. These advancements have been driven by significant…

AI’s Game-Changing Impact on Corporate Real Estate

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming industries worldwide, and the corporate real estate (CRE) sector is no exception. The “Colliers Global AI in CRE Report 2024” provides an in-depth exploration of how AI is reshaping CRE, offering significant breakthroughs and long-term benefits. The report covers various aspects…

MRMC New Technology for Worship – Videoguys

MRMC New Technology for Worship – Videoguys

The blog post “MRMC Updates Prestonwood Baptist Church In Plano, TX” by Ellen Lampert-Greaux for LiveDesignOnline details the recent upgrade of broadcast and streaming technology at Prestonwood Baptist Church. Bryan Bailey, director of media at the church, and Paddy Taylor, head of broadcast solutions at MRMC, discuss their collaboration on this significant update completed in January 2024.

Extent and Goals of the New Install: The church, with a mission to impact the world through effective means, found its existing broadcast setup outdated. The new installation aimed to enhance the church’s ability to deliver dynamic and immersive broadcasts to its audience, which includes 15,000 weekly online viewers.

New Gear Installed:

  • Audio: A d&b Soundscape system replaced the old audio PA, enhancing the audio experience.
  • Stage: Paragon360 redesigned the stage, adding more square footage and better cable management.
  • LED Walls: Upgraded with denser-pitched ReveLux products, increasing the digital scenery canvas.
  • Lighting: UVLD introduced new LED moving light fixtures, and Ayrton’s 32 Huracan LT and 50 Eurus fixtures provided improved stage and audience lighting.
  • Video: The entire video system was updated from a 1080i setup, including a Sony XVS 6000 switcher, Evertz routing, Boland monitors, TBC furniture, and Riedel intercom.

Enhanced Service Experience: The upgrade from nine cameras to 18, including various Sony models on MRMC heads, significantly improved camera angles and movement, making the broadcast more engaging for viewers. The discreet MRMC robotics allowed operators to control cameras remotely, increasing creative freedom without disturbing the congregation.

Holiday Productions: The church hosts “The Gift of Christmas,” a large-scale production involving 1,500 volunteers, 14 performances, and 70,000 attendees. The AVL design work took this annual event into account, ensuring the new technology supports its immersive nature.

Challenges and Solutions: Adapting the technology for a church environment posed unique challenges. MRMC’s discreet camera placements and volunteer-friendly software were crucial solutions, setting a precedent for other churches to enhance their worship and teaching environments with robotic cameras.

Read the full article by Ellen Lampert-Greaux for LiveDesignOnline HERE


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A Deep Dive Into Dragon Age: The Veilguard’s Expansive Character Creator

As BioWare prepared to show me the character creator for Dragon Age: The Veilguard in its Edmonton, Canada, offices, I expected something robust – it’s 2024, character creators have come a long way, and Bioware has a rich history of good customization. Despite my expectations, I was not prepared for how robust it actually is in Veilguard. Robust enough, even, that BioWare used it to create most of the NPCs in the game, save for mainline characters like companions. Setting hyperbole aside, it is a staggeringly rich creation system, and I look forward to seeing player-created near-replicas of celebrities and monstrous creations that’d be more at home in a horror game. 

But I’m also looking forward to the community’s reaction to the Dragon Age series’ best character creator yet. At the heart of it is inclusivity, Veilguard game director Corinne Busche tells me before letting me guide her through creating my own character. 

A Deep Dive Into Dragon Age: The Veilguard’s Expansive Character Creator

As is usual, there are four races to choose from: Elves, Qunari, Humans, and Dwarves. After selecting Qunari, Busche pages through various presets, explaining the game allows for more detailed looks at each and the ability to choose pronouns with she/her, he/him, and they/them separately from gender, select different body types, and more. You can view your character, referred to as Rook in-game, in four different lighting scenes at any time, including The Veilguard’s keynote purple hue, a bright and sunny tropical day, and a gothic night. 

I joke with the team that after spending upwards of an hour creating my Dragon Age: Inquisition character in 2014, I immediately restarted the game after seeing him in the first cutscene; the in-game lighting made my hair color look terrible amongst other issues I had with my Inquisitor. Veilguard creative director John Epler says the team is aware of countless stories like that with Inquisition and its green-hued character creator, adding BioWare worked hard to squash that concern in Veilguard. 

Head and body presets can be selected individually and customized to your liking with 40 different complexions that include smooth, rugged, youthful, and freckled skin tones, skin hues ranging from cool to neutral to warm, undertones to those skin tones, and even a melanin slider. Busche tells me BioWare relied on consultation to represent all people authentically. There’s a Vitiligo slider (where you can adjust the intensity and amount of it) and sliders for your forehead, brow, cheeks, jaw, chin, larynx, and scalp. You can select your undergarments, with nudity as well because “this is a mature RPG,” Busche adds, and use the “Body Morpher” to select three presets for each corner of a triangle and then move a cursor within it to morph your body or head into a mix of these presets. It’s an impressive technology I’d like to see adopted in other games. 

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I can keep going: You can adjust height, shoulder width, chest size, glute and bulge size, hip width, how bloodshot your eyes are, how visible cataracts are, the sclera color, how crooked your nose is, how big its bridge is, the size of nostrils and the nose tip, and there are as many sliders, if not more, for things like Rook’s mouth and ears. On ears alone, I see you can adjust asymmetry, depth, rotation, earlobe size, and even add cauliflower ear to your Rook. Busche says makeup blends modern stylings with the fantasy of Dragon Age with more than 30 options, including eyeliner intensity, color, glitter, eye shadow, lips, and blush.

Tattoos are just as customizable alongside options for scars and paint. Tattoos, scars, and paint are very culturally relevant to some lineages, BioWare tells me, with unique tattoos for elves, for example. You can add tattoos to Rook’s face, body, arms, and legs, and you can adjust things like intensity, too. 

Im most impressed, however, by the hair options on display; there are a ton, and as someone with long hair, I’m especially excited about the fun selections I can make. You can finally dye your hair with non-traditional colors, and it’s gorgeous. EA’s Frostbite engine uses the Strand system to render each style fully with physics. “The technology has finally caught up to our ambition,” Dragon Age series art director Matt Rhodes says.

After customizing all of that and selecting our Qunari’s horn type and material (of which there are more than 40 options to choose from), it’s time to pick a class out of the Rogue, Mage, and Warrior – read more about Veilguard’s classes here. Since we built a Qunari, we went with Warrior. For the penultimate step of the character creator, at least during the demo BioWare shows me, we select a faction. Out of the six options, we select the pirate-themed Lords of Fortune. 

“Rook ascends because of competency, not because of a magical McGuffin,” BioWare core lead and Mass Effect executive producer Michael Gamble tells me in contrast to Inquisition’s destiny-has-chosen-you-characterization.

“Rook is here because they choose to be and that speaks to the kind of character that we’ve built,” Busche adds. “Someone needs to stop this, and Rook says, ‘I guess that’s me.'”

Ready to begin our Rook’s journey, we select a first and last name and one of four voices out of English masculine, English feminine, American masculine, or American feminine options. There’s a pitch shifter for each voice, too, allowing you to tweak it to your liking further.

Don’t stress too much about locking in your character creations before beginning the game – the Mirror of Transformation, which is found in Veilguard’s main hub, The Lighthouse, allows you to change your physical appearance at any time. However, class, lineage, and identity are locked in and cannot be changed after you select them in the game’s character creator. 

From here, we’re off to Minrathous, and you can read more about that famed city in our cover story, which is available here.


For more about the game, including exclusive details, interviews, video features, and more, click the Dragon Age: The Veilguard hub button below. 

US clamps down on China-bound investments

In a move that has further strained the already tense US-China relations, the Biden administration has advanced plans to restrict American investments in key Chinese technology sectors. This decision, announced by the US Treasury Department, has sparked a swift and sharp rebuke from Beijing, highlighting the…