In the first Bitesize Bifrost blog we introduced you to our new GPU architecture, Bifrost, and looked specifically at the extensive optimization and power saving benefits provided by clause shaders. This…
Optimizing Virtual Reality: Understanding Multiview
As you may have seen, Virtual Reality (VR) is getting increasingly popular. From its modern origins on desktop, it has quickly spread to other platforms, mobile being the most popular. Every time a new…
The Mali GPU: An Abstract Machine, Part 4 - The Bifrost Shader Core
I introduce the block-level architecture of a stereotypical Bifrost shader core and explain what performance expectations application developers should have of the hardware when it comes to content optimization…
IndieDev innovation leads the VR revolution
As a graphics blogger I’m always interested in the next big thing in tech and particularly, VR, so when I saw a news item about a guy cycling the length of the country from the comfort of his living room…
Nibiru’s next-generation VR headsets harness the power of Mali
In the first of my Mali™ Power & Efficiency blogs we looked at the inbuilt flexibility and scalability of the Mali range of GPUs. It’s this that allows ARM® partners to target exactly the right…
Pokemon Go-es to show the power of AR
Ok I did it. I downloaded Pokemon Go. Yes I was trying to resist, yes it was futile, yes it’s an awesome concept. Whilst a strong believer in Virtual Reality as a driving force in how we will handle much…
ARM Mali GPUs: Striking the perfect balance of power & efficiency
Some devices, applications or use cases require the absolute peak of performance capability in order to deliver on their requirements. Some devices, applications or use cases however, need to save every…
Linley mobile chip report: Mali-G71 enables coherent computing
We recently launched our highest performance GPU to date, Mali-G71. Based on our brand new Bifrost architecture it represents a new era of graphics processing and is designed to support next generation…
Vulkan & Validation Layers
Why the validation layers?Unlike OpenGL, Vulkan drivers don't have a global context, don't maintain a global state and don't have to validate inputs from the application side. The goal is to reduce CPU…
Stereo Reflections in Unity for Google Cardboard
IntroductionDevelopers have used reflections extensively in traditional game development and we can therefore expect the same trend in mobile VR games. In a previous blog I discussed the importance…
Bitesize Bifrost 1: The benefits of clause shaders
The recently released Mali™-G71 GPU is our most powerful and efficient graphics processor to date and is all set to take next generation high performance devices by storm. The Mali family of GPU…
Mali Midgard Family Performance Counters
Tools such as ARM DS-5 Streamline provide developers access to the GPU hardware performance counters. This blog doesn't explain how to use the tools but focuses on what the counters mean to a system integrator…
Pint of Science – Quenching Your Thirst for Knowledge
Late May sees the annual Pint of Science events take place in pubs (and other somewhat unusual venues) around Cambridge, the UK and indeed the rest of the world. Designed to combine the city’s love of…
Happy 10th Birthday Mali!
Mali, the #1 shipping family of GPUs in the world, is celebrating 10 years with ARM this month! In honour of the occasion I’m going to take a look at some of the key milestones along the way and how Mali…
Depth testing : Context is everything
I just lost a few hours trying to play with the Z index between draw calls, in order to try Z-layering, as advised by peterharris in my question For binary transparency : Clip, discard or blend ?.However…
[Quick tips] Use ffmpeg to convert pictures to raw RGB565
Here's a quick tip to convert pictures to raw format with FFMPEG, in order to use them as a texture in OpenGL, with no extra conversion :BMP filesffmpeg -vcodec bmp -i /path/to/texture-file.bmp -vcodec…
Eye Heart VR
Welcome to the next installment of my VR blog series. In previous VR blogs we’ve considered the importance of clear focus to a VR experience, as well as the essential requirement to keep ‘motions to photons…
Stride argument in OpenGL ES 2.0
I'm putting this information here, as it took me way more time than it should to understand how the stride argument works in glVertexAttribPointer.This argument is extremely important if you want to pack…
Mali-G71: ARM's Most Powerful, Scalable and Efficient GPU to Date
Mali-G71 is the latest and greatest offering in the Mali high-performance family of GPUs. Built on new Bifrost architecture, Mali-G71 represents a whole new level of high-end mobile graphics capabilities…
Seeing the Future With Computer Vision
Chinese Version中文版：展望计算机视觉的未来 The Internet of Things began to mature in 2016 and we started to see evidence of how technology can help us to engage more powerfully with our world. By allowing machines…
The Hardware Requirements of VR Today
The hardware requirements of VR seemed to be an unknown quantity, there was always the argument that more GPU performance and CPU performance would translate to better VR. This has turned out to be partially…