A Virtual Room of Your Own: IKEA Immerse at Real-Time Live!
IKEA Immerse Interior Designer © 2018 Demodern GmbH IKEA (the brick and mortar store) sets up fully furnished rooms for you to wander, complete with the rugs, coffee tables, and place settings of a real home. But, too often, what … Continued
In the Foreground: SIGGRAPH 2017 Posters Graduate Winner
In partnership with Microsoft, the ACM Student Research Competition — presented annually at the North American SIGGRAPH conference — is a unique forum for undergraduate and graduate students to present their original research before a panel of judges and attendees. … Continued
SIGGRAPH Spotlight: Episode 17 – Independent Storytelling & Innovation
In an all-new episode of SIGGRAPH Spotlight, SIGGRAPH 2018 Production Sessions Chair Emily Hsu (associate producer, Blizzard Entertainment) sits down with a panel of independent creators in production and animation to chat about what led them to go “independent.” The … Continued
VR Pioneer Carolina Cruz Neira
Dr. Carolina Cruz Neira will be part of the Generations panel at the SIGGRAPH 2018 Business Symposium, 11-12 August in Vancouver, British Columbia. A virtual reality (VR) pioneer and leading expert in Cave Automatic Virtual Environment (CAVE) technology, Dr. Cruz … Continued
Experiential Wonderlands: The Experience Hall and Immersive Pavilion at SIGGRAPH 2018
Image: AutoFocals: Gaze-Contingent Eyeglasses for Presbyopes, courtesy Nitish Padmanaban, Robert Konrad, and Gordon Wetzstein, Stanford University An exciting change to SIGGRAPH 2018 is reflective of a larger shift taking place in the industry: the rapid development of virtual and augmented … Continued
Appy Hour: 4 Creations You Don’t Want to Miss
Image: “MaseSTrO: Mobile-Style Transfer Orchestration Using Adaptive Neural Networks” © 2018 Hasso Plattner Institue for Digital Engineering gGmbH, Digital Masterpieces GmbH The SIGGRAPH 2018 Appy Hour line-up is one that you shouldn’t pass up. Appy Hour Co-Chairs Jesse Barker and … Continued
New Method Enables High Quality Speech Separation
Figure: Courtesy of Authors/Google Video stills: Courtesy of Team Coco/CONAN People have a natural knack for focusing on what a single person is saying, even when there are competing conversations in the background or other distracting sounds. For instance, people … Continued
SIGGRAPH 2018 Research Highlight: New Tool for Sketching Faces
Photo credit: Tiziano Protenier Across popular social media platforms, users are posting countless images every day. On Instagram alone, there are more than 40 billion uploaded photos – a figure that’s skyrocketing by 95 million daily. This presents a clear need … Continued
Improving the VR Experience with a Blink of an Eye
In the burgeoning world of virtual reality (VR) technology, it remains a challenge to provide users with a realistic perception of infinite space and natural walking capabilities in the virtual environment. At SIGGRAPH 2018 in Vancouver this summer, a team of … Continued
SIGGRAPH Spotlight: Episode 16 – CG’s Next Generation with Canada’s Natalia Freitas (Part 2)
In part two of the ACM SIGGRAPH International Resources Committee‘s (IRC) “next generation” series, Rebecca Ko (founder, Rooftop Animation) sits down with 3D artist and Brazil native Natalia Freitas (independent animator based in Vancouver) to discuss Freitas’s experience with renowned studios, … Continued