Graphics, Gaming, and VR blog

This blog is based on a recent article written by Geomerics for the publication Making Games. For more information on any of the techniques outlined in this blog, read more here.Lighting is the most fundamental…

ARM®’s newest high performance GPU, the Mali™-T880, delivers better than ever graphics performance whilst remaining well within the energy constraints of a mobile platform. The exciting possibilities this…

As discussed in our virtual reality (VR) intro blog, whilst the VR industry is moving from strength to strength, there are still a few key issues which often stand in the way of developing a truly successful…

In this blog series we’ll be looking at the current status of Virtual Reality with a special focus on mobile VR, where it’s heading in the future and what ARM® can do to help us get there. We’ll be covering…

It's been a while since my last performance blog, but one of those lunchtime coffee discussions about a blog I'd like to write was turned into a working tech demo by wasimabbas overnight, so thanks…

This blog was written by Kapileshwar Syamasundar during his summer placement at ARM in the ARM Mali Graphics demo team. Kapil did some great work at ARM porting the Ice Cave demo to VR using Unity, we…

Vertex interleavingRecently we were asked via the community whether there was an advantage in either interleaving or not interleaving vertex attributes in buffers. For the uninitiated, vertex interleaving…

This blog post refers to the public ARM Mali Midgard r6p0 user-space binary drivers for GNU/Linux. The fbdev variant now has support for dma-buf using a standard ioctl, which I explain in detail.

Yesterday, the Media Processing Group at ARM announced a new highly-efficient graphics processing unit (GPU), the ARM® Mali™-470, to enable smartphone-quality visuals on wearable and IoT devices: …

Hello all,My name is Dale Whinham, and I’m an intern within the Media Processing Group at ARM. I have been working with ARM over the summer to produce some additional sample code for the Mali SDK, which…

Achieving the icy wall effect in the Ice Cave demoIce Cave is ARM’s latest demo. It shows that great graphical quality can be obtained in mobile devices with the use of conventional highly optimised rendering…

When creating an animation, it is paramount to have a very clear objective and vision of the asset and its function. How much is the object going to deform? How visible is it going to be in the scene?…

Starship was formed to use our extensive experience developing software for games & simulations and apply it to market segments that hadn’t yet been exposed to the transformative power of digital technology…

Following the strategic partnership announcement at GDC 2015 which was held in San Francisco from 2nd to 6th March : “ARM and Tencent Games collaborate to advance mobile gaming”, we have worked with…

At a recent press event in China, Huawei announced their latest flagship smartphone, the Honor 7. This device is special. It marks a major milestone in the use of innovative heterogeneous computing technologies…

In the first part of this series we used ARM® DS-5 Streamline to profile the Epic Citadel demo in order to understand the workload on CPU and GPU, and the bandwidth usage. In this article we are going…

Chinese version中文版：百视通/ARM HTML5技术论坛顺利举行（附资料下载）Dear All, good day. HTML5 is really one of the hottest word now in Internet technology area. I believe most of you heard it before. These years HTML5 commercial…

ABSTRACTThis guide will show how to get ARM® DS-5™ Streamline™ support working on a production Samsung Galaxy SIII device, with minimal modifications.The resulting files generated will be a gatord, gator…

Machine Vision is perhaps one of the few remaining areas in technology that can still lead you to say “I didn’t know computers could do that”.  The recent pace of development has been relentless.  On the…

Introduction Have you ever heard about the Taoyuan effect in reflections? Probably not, so I invite you to read this blog to learn about this effect and the application of local cubemaps in graphics.Several…

My last blog looked at some of the critical areas which an application has to implement efficiently to get best performance out of 3D content, such as broad-brush culling of large sections of a scene…