Both native apps and Web apps will be powered by increasingly sophisticated and pervasive cloud resources: storage, computation, collaboration, transactions, location services, content distribution, and remote 3D video rendering.
On top of that, the site allows educators to create original lessons for any YouTube video, rendering the video on a new link where teachers can monitor student progress.
The ioFX is also designed to accelerate video playback and rendering, video and image editing and compositing, encoding and transcoding as well as other data-intensive activities required in contemporary digital production.
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Its 800MHz processor provides horsepower to support a range of mobile applications, game-play and video-rendering, and its 1250mAh Li-ion battery powers up to five hours' talk time.
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The top of the line 2.33GHz Intel Core 2 Duo MBP with 2GB of RAM, as expected, was the leader of the pack, coming in with a Speedmark score of 226 ("19 percent faster than the older model"), and bested its companions in every category ranging from running Unreal Tournament 2004 to video Cinema 4D rendering.
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It also features full support for HTML5, offering developers a chance to create features like WebM and HD video, 3D graphic rendering with WebGL, hardware acceleration and the Mozilla Audio API to help create visual experiences for sound.
He mentions use cases like batch processing, scientific computing, video and image processing and rendering, testing and Web crawling.
Adobe's Flash software, the standard for rendering graphics and video online, is taking a p.r. beating by Apple, which refuses to use it in its phones and tablets.
The game engine is the core component of a video game because it handles graphics rendering, game AI, and how objects behave and relate to each other in a game.
Curiously enough, on both the streaming and downloaded video, audio was noticeably out of sync, rendering the couch potato on-the-go viewing experience a trifle annoying.
He then used the Unity graphics rendering engine - commonly used by independent video games developers - and Vuforia - an AR app development platform made by the chip maker Qualcomm - to allow a smartphone to interact with his creation.
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Switching to software rendering mode in the editing program shows a night-and-day difference: video playback is extremely choppy, and processing moves at a crawl.
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