Hubert Nguyen

Hubert Nguyen is the co-founder and editor of Ubergizmo. He has a passion for technology and enjoys sharing it.

He is a retired computer graphics engineer who programmed special-effects such as real-time fire or hair rendering, for NVIDIA. Hubert also managed the NVIDIA developer education program and edited “GPU Gems 3“, a best-selling 3D programming book.

Before joining NVIDIA, Hubert was at 3dfx interactive. Prior to that, he worked on 3D-Engines in various video games.

Hubert started to program computer graphics in 1991 when he was involved in the underground European DemoScene. In 1994, his “Impact Studios” team won the world’s largest PC demo competition: The Party, in Denmark.

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Recent stories this author

Ubergizmo’s Best Of K-Startup @ CES

01/15/2023, At CES 2023, Korea had what seemed like the second-largest startup presence after the French contingent. There were an impressive number of Korean startups in different locations, and the K-Startup area was probably the busiest. We had a chance to visit...

Ubergizmo’s Top 3 MIK Products @ CES 2023

01/14/2023, Ubergizmo was a media partner of the Global Online Meetup, Best of MIK Award @ CES 2023, an award that rewards the best startups that have already passed several drastic selections before arriving at this culminating point.MIK stands for “Made in...

NVIDIA Broadcast 1.4 Brings AI-Driven Eye Contact

01/14/2023, NVIDIA Broadcast is getting an update that brings the “eye contact” feature to the public. With it, NVIDIA RTX users can appear to be looking directly into the camera’s lens while they are really looking in a slightly different...

Alienware 500Hz Gaming Monitor (AW2524H)

01/03/2023, In all the excitement of CES, it’d be easy to overlook a product as we look at thousands of pitches. However, it is uncommon, but not unheard of, to see 500 and Hz together in monitor specifications, so we had to take a closer look.Dell/Alienware...

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 Series, Now Mobile

01/03/2023, NVIDIA has had an incredible run with its RTX 30 Series for mobiles, and the company is poised to double down with the new RTX 40 Series, which features higher peak performance and better performance per Watt, a dream combination for mobility...

Acer X45 45-Inch OLED Gaming Monitor

01/03/2023, CES is typically where many fantastic gaming monitors are revealed for the year’s first half, while IFA Berlin is the equivalent for the second half. This time, Acer introduces the Acer X45, a new OLED curved 21:9 gaming monitor.Since it uses the...

Acer Predator Helios 18 and 16 New Gaming Laptops

01/03/2023, At CES 2023, Acer introduced new Predator Helios gaming laptops, and the 18-inch model caught our attention. As computer technology and manufacturing improves, it becomes possible to build reasonably mobile laptops with this enormous display size, and we...

Dell UltraSharp 43 4K USB-C Hub Monitor

01/03/2023, Dell announced several Ultrasharp monitors at CES 2023, covering a large spectrum of the professional market. That said, most people with enough room for a very large computer monitor should look at the new Dell UltraSharp 43 4K USB-C Hub (model...

Dell Alienware Concept NYX Controller for Future Gaming

01/03/2023, Dell/Alienware introduced many future concepts under the NYX brand in 2022. Now we’re getting more details at CES 2023, and the Concept NYX Controller is probably the most interesting and potentially pragmatic part of NYX.Unlike its 2022 equivalent,...

Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Benchmarks and Performance

12/18/2022, Qualcomm has recently launched its new Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 platform, and you can read our complete Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 overview to learn the key functionalities and new features.We also had a chance to run some benchmarks on development handsets Qualcomm...

trinamiX Live Skin Face Authentication Boosts Security

12/04/2022, Unlocking a smartphone securely with one’s face is a very convenient and highly sought-after feature. However, it is not as secure as fingerprints or long passwords because of the technologies involved in various face ID implementations.Looking at...

MediaTek T800 and T830 5G Modems for Extreme Speeds

11/12/2022, Along with the Dimensity 9200 SoC, MediaTek has released the MediaTek T800 5G Modem that accompanies the Dimensity 9200. It is slated to be utilized beyond the smartphone market and may find itself in future industrial, IoT, Laptops, and...

MediaTek demonstrates WiFi 7 At Multi Gb Speeds

11/12/2022, At its recent Executive Summit, MediaTek talked about its Filogic 880 and Filogic 330 WiFi 7 solutions (announced in May 2023) and, more importantly, showed live demonstrations of both the router and client sides. One of the demos features a speed of...

Ubergizmo’s Best of ITS 2022

10/29/2022, The 23rd Innovative Technology Show (ITS) was held last week in the COEX center in Gangnam, Seoul. Like last year, Ubergizmo was an ITS Awards jury member (via video conferencing). We carefully reviewed and rated the value proposition and technical...

MediaTek Dimensity 1080: 200MP cameras for all

10/15/2022, MediaTek introduced its Dimensity 1080 system on a chip (or SoC), which will power affordable smartphones (mid-range). These phones have much higher sales volumes than your high-end, expensive handset and can affect the balance of power of various...

Ubergizmo’s Best of Korea-US Startup Summit

09/21/2022, Ubergizmo was invited to be a jury member of the Global Media Awards of the Korea-U.S. Startup Summit (aka, Korea-US SMEs go TOGETHER) innovation event held in New York City on September 20 and 21, 2022, and we obliged. For an overview of the event, read...

Korea-U.S. Startup Summit 2022 in NYC

09/21/2022, It’s been three years since I’ve met with my friends in the Korean innovation scene, and I couldn’t miss the Korea-U.S. Startup Summit (aka, Korea-US SMEs go TOGETHER) innovation event held in New York City on September 20 and 21,...

Backbone One PlayStation-Licensed iPhone Game Controller

07/29/2022, Backbone and Sony have collaborated to create an officially licensed Backbone controller that looks like the PS5 DualSense controller.It makes PS Remote Play (streaming games from the PS to another device) on iPhone (via the iOS app) as close as possible...

Chess-Playing Robot Breaks 7-Year-Old Finger

07/26/2022, We all know that machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) have made considerable strides in recent years, and robots could take over our jobs someday. Still, we don’t often consider them dangerous (sci-fi aside). Unfortunately, a chess...