Nvidia encourages new generation of visual computing startups
I can remember the first interview I did with Jen-Hsun Huang, chief executive of Nvidia, back when the company was coming out of stealth in 1995. Since 3-D games didn’t exist back then, Huang described his graphics chip as the ideal “Windows accelerator.” And if you remember those days, Windows needed a lot of help. Then came no less than 50 3-D graphics startups. They all came and went. Nvidia remains.
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Right Hemisphere raises capital, to sell 3D collaboration tools to businesses
Right Hemisphere, a Fremont, Ca. company that sells visual technology that began by letting you touch up animated characters in movies, said it has raised money from SAP Ventures, the venture capital arm of large German software firm, SAP.
We wrote about the company three years ago, when it first moved to the Bay Area, from New Zealand.
Munich Venture Partners, a German venture firm, also participated in the investment, which was characterized as an appendage to… Continue Reading