PocoAgitato

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been waiting on this for awhile now, the GPU Audio team just released an SDK for creating audio applications like VSTs, etc that can run entirely on the GPU this has huge implications for CPU intensive audio processing tasks like ambisonic spatialization, anything involving machine learning, room simulations, any complex form of synthesis like modal/concatenative, physical modeling, etc. here's a demo of their Neural Amp Modeler plugin running in 100+ instances entirely on the GPU
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Image of a website screenshot that reads: (1) They visualized notes and task cards inside the game itself, which meant you could all easily get on the same page and helped prevent doubled-up work. I imagine it was also a boon for their QA team as well if a tester encountered a problem, they could just mark-up the game world and document the issue right there in the game. This way, theyve sort of decentralized the whole task database as a sort of in-game AR Wiki. (2) For the cases when you don't want to run around the world to literally hunt for a bug report hidden in a cave, they also built a custom dashboard that helped them visualize the game world and project management. I think it's a great testament to the power of good tools, and the value of investing deeply in tool development. We should probably stop using colossal wikis for coordinating and sharing knowledge within design teams that's a last resort for systems that don't have clear spatial metaphors. Meanwhile, in video game land, we're building huge spatial metaphors all the time, so why not use it? It's easier to literally "construct" and annotate that knowledge within the game world itself, as game data.
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