ACM SIGGRAPH Blog
Screams in the Virtual Night: Exploring Immersive Haunted Houses
Image Credit: Brown Wooden Stair Beside Brown Wooden Panel © Pexels As the leaves fall and the nights grow longer, the Halloween season creeps upon us with its spine-tingling tales and eerie ambiance. In the age of digital innovation, haunted houses have found a new...
‘Best of’ Real-Time Winner on Using iPhone X to Produce Stunning Mocap
Image from "Bebylon Battle Royale" © 2018 Kite & Lightning In August, SIGGRAPH attendees were wowed by some of the industry’s greatest minds in real-time production during Real-Time Live! One project in particular stood out among the rest: "Democratising Mocap:...
Computer Graphic Market Forecast
Ever since it came into being during 1970s, the computer graphics (CG) industry has been a mixed bag of technologies, users, and applications, and has had for the most part a consistent (and lumpy) growth record.
SIGGRAPH Spotlight: Episode 20 – Rianti Hidayat
SIGGRAPH Spotlight is back with an all-new episode! Join International Resources Committee member Bektur Ryskeldiev and SIGGRAPH Asia 2018 Student Volunteer (SV) Lead Rianti Hidayat, as they discuss working on the SV committee and working internationally. Listen on...
VR Theater: Celebrating The Evolution of a New Medium
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...
The 4 Arms of Adaptive Technology
photo by Andreas Psaltis © 2018 ACM SIGGRAPH With each SIGGRAPH conference, attendees get to see new technology and sometimes even new programs or focus areas … and SIGGRAPH 2019 is no different! Meet the newest focus area to grace the SIGGRAPH “stage”:...
My Vision for SIGGRAPH 2019: A Letter from Conference Chair Mikki Rose
photo by John Fujii © 2018 ACM SIGGRAPH Hello there! My name is Mikki Rose, and I’m your SIGGRAPH 2019 Conference Chair. I’m very pleased to share some of the exciting ideas we’re working on for the conference, but before we dive into that, it might help you to know a...
SIGGRAPH Asia: Computer Animation Festival
This article contains excerpts from an interview with the SIGGRAPH Asia 2018 Computer Animation Festival Chairs, originally published on CG World, Japan. Be sure to mark your calendars for SIGGRAPH Asia 2018, taking place at the Tokyo International Forum, 4-7,...
25 SIGGRAPH 2018 Stories You May Have Missed
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...
Throwback Thursday: SIGGRAPH 2018 in Videos
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...
Celebrating Generations at SIGGRAPH 2018
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,...
VR @ 50: Ivan Sutherland’s 1968 Head-Mounted 3D Display System
photo by Jim Hagarty © 2018 ACM SIGGRAPH “I never thought much about the future. I couldn’t imagine what people would do with this thing. I just did it because it was interesting and seemed possible.” So thought Ivan Sutherland about his Head-Mounted 3D Display System...
What is the Academy Software Foundation?
Last Friday, ahead of SIGGRAPH 2018, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and The Linux Foundation announced the formation of the Academy Software Foundation (ASWF). ASWF provides a neutral forum for open source software developers in the motion picture and...