We are excited to expand our Mali graphics portfolio with the new Arm Mali-G57 GPU, bringing a range of new features and immersive experiences to the mainstream market. Mali-G57 is the first mainstream GPU based on the new Valhall architecture, following…

You might have noticed that around this time of year we start to talk about our latest high end GPU. Well, 2017 is no different and we in the Arm Mali team are delighted to welcome Mali-G72 to the High Performance GPU roadmap.

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In my previous blog, I discussed the enormous potential of a Virtual Reality World Cup after the BBC Sport launched a Virtual Reality (VR) app for this year's tournament. As a big football fan, I thought I would try out the app for myself and see what…

2019 sees Samsung celebrating the release of the tenth version of the successful Galaxy S series of smartphones. The recent launch of four Galaxy S10 mobile devices (the S10, S10+, S10e and S10 5G) the week before Mobile World Congress in February proved…

Having just attended GDC 2019, I finally understand why augmented reality (AR) games are so much fun. I never got into anything that hit the mainstream gaming market like Pokemon Go, but at Google's booth they had a square area that was completely empty…

“Otherworldly”, “amazing” and “life changing” are three of the most popular terms used by consumers to describe the first time they try Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR). A report from TECHnalysis Res…

In a previous blog, I introduced the SLAM technology, explaining what it is and how it works. As I mentioned, I believe that SLAM has the potential to be truly transformative across a number of different devices and technologies from mobile to autonomous…

In my previous blog on the history (and future) of augmented reality, I introduced SLAM – Simultaneous Localization and Mapping. SLAM is one of a number of key areas that will be made possible or further innovated through Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual…

Moving Mobile Graphics is a recurring half-day course at SIGGRAPH providing a technical introduction to the state of the art in mobile graphics from practitioners at the forefront. It first ran at SIGGRAPH 2015, then 2016 and 2018 and we aim to return…

Introduction

Reflections are an important element in how we visualize the real world and developers therefore use them extensively in their games. In a previous blog I discussed how to render reflections based on local cubemaps and the advantages of this…

The announcement by the BBC that it will be showing the 2018 football World Cup in virtual reality (VR) has understandably got people excited. Unfortunately, football fans will not be able to watch the tournament in the middle of the action alongside…

Earlier this year Arm collaborated with my company SensoMotoric Instruments to enable foveated rendering on a mobile virtual reality (VR) platform. The device was demoed at GDC'17 in California, a joint-showcase that proved to be a great success.

At Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2018, one of the main themes for this year’s show was the important role Arm played in shaping the last 25 years of the mobile gaming and handheld entertainment industry. One of the ideas our team came up with during our…

Mobile gaming is now the largest and most valuable segment of the global gaming market. Porting your game to mobile is not straightforward however, as there is a range of constraints and considerations that are required for an optimal experience due to…

Update: 7 November 2018: Roberto has added new information to help run SLAM indoor tracking using a newer version of ARCore. He also explains the use of Points of Interest (POIs), and how to implement them in the app. POIs have many practical applications…

Introduction to Skullfish Studios

Greetings! My name is Rafael Ferrari, and I'm the CEO of Skullfish Studios, a company from Brazil that develops content for virtual reality devices. I’m writing this guest blog on the Arm Community about the work…

Introduction

VR is all about immersion, and the ability to track the user's position in space is a key element of it. However, to date, this has only been available in desktop and console VR, even though modern smartphones already incorporate the essential…

Monday morning in Taipei and the public holiday for the Dragon Boat Festival doesn’t slow the momentum of the technology industry. Computex opens tomorrow but first we’ve gathered the best and brightest of Asia’s tech industry to announce the release…

Introduction

Reflections have always been an important topic in video game graphics, given how much they add to the realism of a scene and how expensive they tend to be in terms of computations, when aiming for quality. Mobile virtual reality pushes both…