The Eureka Park section at CES 2025 in Las Vegas is an exhibition area dedicated to thousands of startups and early-stage products from across the globe. Our reporting team visited the space organized specifically for Japanese startups and discovered a few that are developing innovative technologies that could potentially be applied to 3D computer graphics modeling, XR, and gaming. Among the standouts were Tokyo-based CalTa that developed the digital twin platform Trancity — and Japanese telecom giant NTT Docomo’s exhibit of its ongoing Feel Tech system. Continue reading CES: Japanese Startups Showcase 3D Modeling, XR, Gaming

Nvidia has taken the wraps off Omniverse Blueprint, a real-time physics engine designed to create digital twins. The software is optimized for computational fluid dynamics (CFD), allowing virtual exploration and refinement of objects that must function in the real world — things like automobiles, airplanes, ships — that are put to everyday use and tasked for production in the field and on set. One of the first use cases is a virtual wind tunnel that lets users simulate and visualize fluid dynamics at interactive speeds, even when changing the vehicle model as it navigates the tunnel. Continue reading Nvidia Unveils Omniverse Blueprint Real-Time Physics Engine

D-ID has launched two new types of AI-powered avatars: Premium+ and Express. The company’s video-to-video avatar tools aim to provide personal look-alikes that can sub for their creators in uses ranging from instructional videos to business presentations, offloading on-camera duties in areas including sales, marketing and customer support. “Premium+ Avatars can generate hyper-realistic digital humans that are indistinguishable from real people and will serve as the foundation for fully interactive digital agents revolutionizing how brands communicate,” while Express Avatars can rapidly generate serviceable avatars “from just one minute of source footage.” Continue reading D-ID’s New Business-Use Avatars Can Converse in Real Time