The UEFA Champions League Final Opening Ceremony presented by Pepsi was rendered with Octane Render!

The US DJ and producer Marshmello helped set the mood at the Estádio do Dragão as Selena Gomez and Khalid joined him for a spectacular immersive performance before kick-off between Manchester City and Chelsea.

Some production insights: The virtual production stages for the 6 minutes show were all rendered with Octane Render and all in 4K@50fps HDR, which made it very challenging to put out that many frames in time. To make it even more challenging, the stadium for the performance got changed, just 10 days before delivering.

Just one of the countless use cases for RNDR. 💪

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https://twitter.com/RenderToken/status/1398745397896658946

Full quality now available on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiFMBLFzk_U

Today NVIDIA announced the Geforce RTX 3080 Ti GPUs at Computex 2021.

They used OTOY's OctaneBench.com with RTX ON for comparing rendering performance to last gen Ti variants.

Tl;dr thanks to the number of CUDA cores and identical memory bandwidth, we expect basically the same performance as the RTX 3090, but with half as much VRAM.

The latest version of this industry standard benchmark is also used for calculating $RNDR payouts for node operators.

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Apple holds their worldwide developer conference #WWDC21 and unveiled their brand new landing page for the 3D graphic and compute shader Metal API, featuring OTOY's Octane X!

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Octane X is available for free, including up to 1 year access to the $RNDR network.

👉 The iPad version is currently being tested!

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A great interview with RNDR advisor Beeple done by Sriram Krishnan, a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk7MXQr1k50

His mindset when asked about his future after the 69 million art sale on Christie's:

"I honestly look at it more like a tech company. Especially at that level of money, to me that's an investment. I wanna see them to get a return on that investment. I wanna see it go up. I really look at this like I'm gonna take that money and use it to do more ambitious more resource intensive projects that I couldn't do before."

#RNDR CEO Jules Urbach spoke to Fast Company about helping Hollywood navigate the #NFT universe.

OTOY, in many ways, sits at the nexus of the NFT explosion. The company serves as an Adobe-like software provider for NFT creators.

Among its board members are director J.J. Abrams; former Google CEO Eric Schmidt; former Lucasfilm CTO Richard Kerris; Mike Winkelmann (aka Beeple); and Ari Emanuel, CEO of Endeavor, whom Urbach says he talks to “every day about where the space is headed.”

Urbach also talks to Emanuel in more specific terms. He says OTOY’s collaboration with Endeavor “is to take everything that they touch . . . and provide digital representation of that. For example, we scan actors or athletes. That could become an NFT. Similarly, for UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship), which Endeavor owns, we’re in discussions about providing a 3D pipeline blockchain for that.”

Beyond an #NFT, what happens when an artist like Beeple might take it, with rights attached, and use it, do something with it, and create a royalty flow?

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Apple loves OTOY!

Watch the World Wide Developer Conference 2021 where Apple was showcasing the all-new professional GPU renderer Octane X from OTOY.

💻 bit.ly/OTOY-WWDC21

OTOY is proud to offer Octane X on the Mac App Store - bringing it to millions of macOS users - available for free and with support for distributed rendering on $RNDR!

🔥 The iPad version for Octane X is currently being tested!

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⚠️ Spoiler ⚠️ In the interview #RNDR advisor Beeple says he's not even remotely done and looking for ways to use these resources to do BIGGER and more ambitious projects...

"and obviously, working with @RenderToken is a huge piece of that!" 🚀🚀🚀

On the Decrypt Daily podcast Matthew Diemer had a chat with artist Beeple and RNDR CEO Jules Urbach which were talking about the future of digital art and #NFT's with Render Token.

🎙 soundcloud.com/user-792539118-188863837/june-16-a-chat-w-beeple-rndr
🎙 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/june-16-a-chat-w-beeple-rndr/id1520762610
🎙 open.spotify.com/episode/0zaVvNyQ92YhyyRPIvsKcQ

Decrypt article: https://decrypt.co/73756/beeple-interview-69m-ethereum-nft-sale

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RNDR is coming to Apple‘s iPad!

Octane X is already available free of charge for macOS. The first videos have now surfaced on Twitter showing successful tests on iPad Pro's running on M1 Apple Silicon.

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Join us on Jul 8th at 14:00 UTC+8, we will talk about infrastructures of the NFT ecosystem

The Big Shots Show by Bitalk News Live with

Jules Urbach from
Render Token

Amie from
Flow Blockchain

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Hot off the press. RNDR Newsletter July 2021 is out!

🔥 Polygon Network L2 migration completed!!
🔥 RNDR coming to Apple's iPad
🔥 Jules Urbach and Beeple on Decrypt Daily podcast
🔥 RNDR in Fast Company article
🔥 New RNDR Creator 🎨 spotlight campaign

Want to be featured as a RNDR Creator? Fill out this form to let us know you’re interested:
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Read more in our archive:
http://bit.ly/RNDR-Newsletter

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We are honored to have RNDR and OTOY to be part of this exciting vanguard of fine art and digital art on Frieze.

To launch Frieze Viewing Room Los Angeles Edition with the brand new digital art section, Frieze Director of Americas and Content Rebecca Ann Siegel talked to RNDR CEO Jules Urbach.

Watch the video:
https://www.frieze.com/video/watch-exclusive-preview-frieze-viewing-room-los-angeles-edition

Read the article:
https://www.frieze.com/article/what-expect-frieze-viewing-room-los-angeles-edition

All of the NFT's for Frieze are minted and sold using new RNDR Network NFT features and tools coming online later this year for all RNDR artists, creators, publishers, marketplaces and collectors to use themselves. RNDR leverages Layer 2 technology to reduce carbon emissions.

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RNDR's Jules Urbach was speaking as part of an Financial Times x Frieze Weekend panel on the future of digital art and eco friendly NFT's.

Financial Times x Frieze

Is it the art world's responsibility to be eco-friendly?

Thursday, July 29 at 11am PST | 2pm EST | 7pm BST

Join us for a free panel moderated by Financial Times’ editor, Jemima Kelly, focusing on the art world and its ecological impact.

Panelists:

- Jules Urbach, Founder and CEO, OTOY and RNDR
- Haley Mellin, Artist and Founder, Art to Acres
- Klaus Biesenbach, Director, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Los Angeles
- Victoria Siddall, Board Director, Frieze

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https://vimeo.com/580913503

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Essential read by Matthew Ball, Managing Partner of Ball Metaverse Research Partners which launched the Metaverse ETF (NYSE:META) last month.

"The availability and development of computing power will constrain and define the Metaverse."

"OTOY hit on the idea of tapping a network of idle GPUs by creating the Ethereum-based RNDR network and [Render] Token."

Read the essay:
http://matthewball.vc/all/computemetaverse

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'Star Trek' creator Gene Roddenberry's life, legacy and creative work will be memorialized by the #RNDR Network for future generations to use on the blockchain.

🖖♾ https://home.otoy.com/roddenberryarchive

Using RNDR, the Roddenberry Archive will capture deep 3D asset metadata from show original assets, blueprints and models.

"What goes into the RNDR archive is a special NFT that is a zero edition - it’s never ever for sale, it’s a root NFT intrinsic to the creator or artist’s work or concept or sourced material (ideally in a way we can render on demand to produce a viewable asset) - using this, Beeple can link any past or future NFT to the root version in his archive and can make secondary or tertiary monetization by controlling what the RNDR archive version grants to NFTs based in that work or IP." - Jules Urbach

Watch the full video:
https://roddenberry.x.io

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RNDR is coming to Apple‘s iPad - Part II

https://youtu.be/Akpv_ziwPJg

Iconic artist Mike “Beeple” Winklemann takes the USS Enterprise for a spin on M1 iPad! Octane X is already available free of charge for Apple's macOS. The iPad version is currently being tested as seen in this video with Beeple.

Beeple wrote art history this year with the first purely digital artwork NFT ever offered at auction house Christie's Inc. The auction closed with a bid of over $69 million, making him the third-most-valuable living artist. He is joining OTOY's Roddenberry Archive project as a creative consultant, and, alongside legendary Marvel and DC Comics star illustrator Alex Ross, will help commemorate the Roddenberry Archive and cross-link it to both the Alex Ross and Beeple RNDR Archives announced earlier this year.

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