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There’s a fear that virtual reality (VR) will turn us into antisocial loners who too regularly escape into immersive fantasies on our own. But with “CoGlobe: A Co-Located Multi Person FTVR Experience,” the VR experience is a shared one — much like playing a board game...
Derek Ham, an assistant professor and affiliate assistant research professor with North Carolina State University, shares the journey and production story for “I Am A Man.”
photo of the VR Theater by Andreas Psaltis © 2018 ACM SIGGRAPH We are still in a high-fashion stage of VR where the experimentation and far-out art being presented at festivals like Sundance have yet to inspire the "ready to wear" market we are all waiting for. Since...
Image credit: Amazon Sumerian hosts © 2019 Amazon Web Services At SIGGRAPH 2018, Leo Chan taught two, hands-on workshops in the Studio that walked developers through how to create a virtual host and immersive scene, respectively, with Amazon Sumerian. We sat down with...
Photo of Stefen Fangmeier (left) and Steve ‘Spaz’ Williams (right) introducing "Jurassic Park" by Jim Hagarty © 2018 ACM SIGGRAPH As we get ready for SIGGRAPH 2019, it's hard not to think back on what made last summer so special. Read on for some of our favorite...
photo of the SIGGRAPH 2016 Art Gallery © ACM SIGGRAPH Traveling internationally over the holidays or in the new year? Don’t skip the art! In honor of the approaching SIGGRAPH 2019 Art Gallery submissions deadline (on 29 January 2019), we've curated an around-the-world...
SIGGRAPH Asia Tokyo is fast approaching, Bektur Ryskeldiev from the SIGGRAPH International Resources Committee interviewed Yoichi Ochiai who provides a great insight into the culture behind computer graphics in Japan. Yoichi, who has a background in computer science,...
Image credit: MagicLeap.com At SIGGRAPH 2018, we connected with Blake Taylor, head of graphics at Magic Leap, and Aleissia Laidacker, interaction director at Magic Leap to learn more about their careers, SIGGRAPH history, and Magic Leap One. Taylor, who was on-hand to...
photo by Jim Hagarty In 2017, Pol Jeremias, the founder of SIGGRAPH’s VR Theater, had a bold vision. A new way to tell stories was emerging from small teams of pioneering visionaries, similar to what was happening in computer graphics in the 1970s. Recognizing that...
photo by Jim Hagarty © 2018 ACM SIGGRAPH Our recent trip to Vancouver yielded a wealth of new ideas, new experiences, and new innovations. ...And plenty of writers were there to capture it! We hope you enjoy this roundup of some of the biggest stories out of SIGGRAPH...
Still reeling from last week's SIGGRAPH 2018 conference? Perhaps you missed Vancouver altogether? There's a video for that! In addition to the ability to re-watch any of our live-streamed sessions, check out this collection of bonus videos, published daily during our...
Photo by Jim Hagarty © 2018 ACM SIGGRAPH SIGGRAPH 2018 concluded in Vancouver, BC, with over 16,500 attendees from around the world. Attendees hailed from Canada and 87 other countries worldwide, including the United States, China, France, Germany, Japan,...