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- A Snapshot of Community Engagement in India
- 1,000 Products Now Support NVIDIA 3D Vision
- We’re Going to BlizzCon 2010
| A Snapshot of Community Engagement in India Posted: 18 Oct 2010 03:00 PM PDT India is home to almost 1,000 NVIDIA employees in Pune, Hyderabad and Bangalore – three rapidly changing, dynamic cities that are among the centers of India's technology industry. Our employees there are passionate about tackling some of India's toughest social issues through organized charitable activities In Pune and Bangalore, the employees have adopted schools for visually-impaired youth. They've used their own funds (matched by the NVIDIA Foundation) to provide school supplies and support teacher salaries. And this year in Bangalore employees connected the Snehadeep Trust for the Disabled with one of our 2008 High Impact Grant recipients (Sankara Eye Institute) to provide eye exams, corrective lenses and even cataract surgery that helped a blind teacher regain partial vision.
Jagriti School for Blind Girls in Pune recently kicked off a fundraising campaign to rebuild their school, boarding facility and vocational training center. NVIDIA employees in Pune have raised enough money to fund a classroom, which should be completed within the next two years, and plan to do a second round of fundraising during the upcoming Diwali holidays.
Our products give us a lot of connections in the animation and gaming industries. So we've reached out to this ecosystem by asking executives in these industries to meet with Jagriti School to see if there are vocational opportunities for the girls to explore. Some possible careers that look promising include work in office administration or sound-quality assurance. In Hyderabad, the employees adopted a government primary school five years ago. Employees started by providing backpacks, books and sanitation supplies. Two years ago they took a big leap and pooled their funds with the NVIDIA Foundation and the (Jen-Hsun and Lori) Huang Foundation to completely demolish and rebuild the two room school, which had become unsafe. When the state government of Maharashtra learned of our activities, they offered additional financial support, and two years later the school is a two-story structure with six rooms. Now that the infrastructure has been greatly improved, the employees focus on supporting the salaries of three teachers in the school as well as teaching aids for several children of migrant workers.
There's tremendous opportunity in all these projects to improve the lives of underprivileged youth, and it's exciting to see them come out of the partnership between the NVIDIA Foundation and local employees. |
| 1,000 Products Now Support NVIDIA 3D Vision Posted: 18 Oct 2010 01:49 PM PDT We couldn't let a milestone like this go unnoticed. Less than two years after the introduction of 3D Vision at CES 2009, there are now 1,000 products in its ecosystem, including notebook and desktop PCs, displays, TVs, projectors, GPUs, video applications, cameras and games. Industry adoption of 3D Vision has outpaced even our best expectations. Certainly we've benefited from the huge trend towards 3D in everything from Hollywood movies to sporting events to digital photography. (You can even buy 3D toothpaste of all things!) But we've also worked hard with game developers and partners to ensure that consumers have a great 3D experience out of the box. That's reflected in the many stories and awards lauding 3D Vision, and also in the diverse companies which now offer 3D Vision-Ready products:
What's more, 3D Vision supports a wide variety of 3D content including more than 475 games, Blu-ray 3D movies, 3D photos and streaming Web video. We support more games than any other 3D technology, including the most popular game franchises: Call of Duty, Civilization, StarCraft, StarCraft II, World of Warcraft, and more. We also support a growing number of 3D video/photo editing and playback applications, including:
Later this month, we'll bring 3D Vision application support to an entirely new market, with NVIDIA 3DTV Play. 3DTV Play will allow consumers to attach their PC or notebook to 3D TVs and HDMI 1.4-capable TV and enjoy all the latest 3D content in the comfort of their living rooms in full HD 3D, and HD surround sound audio. 3DTV Play will enable users to view 3D video trailers, videos, sports, shorts, and more at NVIDIA's 3D Vision Live, the world's first 3D streaming Web channel. I'm really proud of our team for achieving this milestone, and I can't wait to see what amazing innovations they'll make in the future to drive the next evolution of 3D. |
| Posted: 18 Oct 2010 01:20 PM PDT This is the year to be at BlizzCon! If you've been refining your StarCraft II strategy or getting ready for the latest WoW expansion pack – Cataclysm, you won't want to miss BlizzCon 2010. And the NVIDIA team has just the stuff to make your time at the show unforgettable.
V3 Gaming PC, Digital Storm and NVIDIA also have great prizes lined up for attendees with the best strategy to keep the galaxy from getting Zergified. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter for the most up to date happenings at the show, and bookmark our BlizzCon event page for more details. |
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