One Guy’s Take on What’s Happening in His Kid’s Imagination

Kids are weird. They run around screaming at nothing, haphazardly waving sticks at things, and have emotional responses to doorknobs and pavement. They’re like tiny lunatics with poor hand-eye coordination. What’s going on with the way they interact with the world is a product of very active imaginations that haven’t yet been hampered by societal expectations and pragmatism. That said, if you’re screaming at the bubble dragon, you might not get out of the way of that biker coming up behind you unless a parent moves you first.

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This guy filmed his kid being a kid, and then promptly added in some CGI that makes all of these actions make sense to the average viewer. Who wouldn’t want to collect giant, shiny, gold coins, and shoot things with a magic fire stick? The narrative is there.

Imagination goes ‘all out’ with bigger PowerVR graphics cores: the G6230 and G6430

Imagination goes 'all out' with bigger PowerVR graphics cores: the G6230 and G6430

Imagination Technologies has launched two new variants of its Series6 "Rogue" GPU, giving manufacturers more choice for the loadouts of next-gen mobile devices, TVs and dash systems. The PowerVR G6230 and G6430 differ from the earlier Series6 cores in one single respect: they're bigger, which means they're designed for those who want to go "all out" for better performance. At this point it's not clear just how much extra juice they'll deliver, but in general the Rogue architecture is all about being "scalable" -- Imagination can simply add more "compute clusters" to boost frame rates at the expense of power consumption and it says "further cores will be announced" that will extend the eye-candy possibilities even further.

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