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A powerful processing unit synchronizes, stores, and wirelessly transmits the data, all in a tiny wearable design. A head-mounted camera device captures the nuances and contours of facial activity for signature performances applied to digital imagery. Combined, these technologies enable new ways to unobtrusively capture highly accurate performance and movement data while eliminating the restrictions and confi ne- ments of a motion-capture stage. Nvidia's Project Maximus. While not really a brand-new offering, Maximus is more like integrating two current tech- nologies into one, with the end result being multi-GPU computing for the masses. Maximus, which will be offered on workstations, mates a Quadro 6000 graphics card with a Tesla GPU. Think of it like right-brain/left-brain functional- ity: Graphics and modeling processes will be tasked to the Quadro graphics card, while fi nal rendering and anima- tion (compute) tasks will be handled by the Tesla GPU. 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