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The first partially computer-generated main character and the first blockbuster movie to feature multiple morphing effects. [36] First use of a personal computer to create major movie 3-D effects. Inducted to the National Film Registry in 2023. Pentagon: First use of photorealistic CGI architectural fly-through.
Roku, Inc. (/ ˈ r oʊ k uː / ROH-koo) [2] is an American technology company. [3] [4] Founded in 2002 by Anthony Wood, it produces Roku-branded streaming players and TVs, distributes streaming services and operates an ad business on its platform. Roku is the U.S. market leader in streaming video distribution, [5] [6] [7] reaching 120 million ...
A TCL Roku TV. Roku announced its first branded smart TV and it was released in late 2014. These TVs are manufactured by companies like TCL, LG, Westinghouse and Hisense, and use the Roku user interface as the "brain" of the TV. Roku TVs are updated just like the streaming devices. [77]
[2] [3] It was first used in a computer game by the 1979 PLATO role-playing game Avatar. In Norman Spinrad's novel Songs from the Stars (1980), the term avatar is used in a description of a computer generated virtual experience. In the story, humans receive messages from an alien galactic network that wishes to share knowledge and experience ...
Produced by Netflix in partnership with Nickelodeon, Avatar: The Last Airbender is a live-action adaptation of the first series by Albert Kim. [6] Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko , originally set to be the showrunners, abandoned the project due to creative differences. [ 7 ]
John Whitney Sr. (1917–1995) was an American animator, composer and inventor, widely considered to be one of the fathers of computer animation. [1] In the 1940s and 1950s, he and his brother James created a series of experimental films made with a custom-built device based on old anti-aircraft analog computers (Kerrison Predictors) connected by servomechanisms to control the motion of lights ...
Carl Sassenrath (born 1957 in California) is an architect of operating systems and computer languages.He brought multitasking to personal computers in 1985 with the creation of the Amiga Computer operating system kernel, [1] and he is the designer of the REBOL computer language, REBOL/IOS collaboration environment, the Safeworlds AltME private messaging system, and other products.
The oldest known recordings of computer generated music were played by the Ferranti Mark 1 computer. The Mark 1 is a commercial version of the Manchester Mark 1 machine from the University of Manchester. The music program was written by Christopher Strachey. 1951: US EDVAC (electronic discrete variable computer). The first computer to use ...