March 29, 2024

InteractiveTop brings tabletop gaming to SIGGRAPH, doubles as Inception token (video)

MoleTop a little too passive for you? Fret not, as a team from The University of Electro-Communications popped by this year's installment of SIGGRAPH in order to showcase something entirely more vicious. It's air hockey meets bumper cars, and the InteractiveTop demo was certainly one of the stranger ones we came across here in Vancouver. Put … [Read more...]

Sony’s Face-to-Avatar blimp soars through SIGGRAPH, melts the heart of Big Brother (video)

Telepresence, say hello to your future. Humans, say hello to the next generation of Chancellor Sutler. All jesting aside, there's no question that Big Brother came to mind when eying Sony Computer Science Laboratories' Face-to-Avatar concept at SIGGRAPH. For all intents and purposes, it's a motorized blimp with a front-facing camera, microphone, a … [Read more...]

Vection Field controls traffic at SIGGRAPH, fictional cities from the future (video)

So, let's set the stage. You're walking down a semi-busy street in a semi-foreign city. You're curiously hanging close to the middle of the sidewalk. You bust out your smartphone and figure out that your so-called engagement just got "Complicated." Your gait has an irregularity. You look up and spot what appears to be a local, eerily perturbed and … [Read more...]

Researchers demo 3D face scanning breakthroughs at SIGGRAPH, Kinect crowd squarely targeted

Lookin' to get your Grown Nerd on? Look no further. We just sat through 1.5 hours of high-brow technobabble here at SIGGRAPH 2011, where a gaggle of gurus with IQs far, far higher than ours explained in detail what the future of 3D face scanning would hold. Scientists from ETH Zürich, Texas A&M, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, … [Read more...]

Perceptive Pixel shows world’s largest projected capacitive display at SIGGRAPH, we go hands-on (video)

Perceptive Pixel wasn't kidding around when it launched the planet's biggest projected capacitive display here at SIGGRAPH -- all 82 inches of it were here on display, and naturally, we stopped by to give it a look. While 82-inch panels aren't anything new, this one's particularly special. You see, the company actually procures the panels from … [Read more...]

Thousands gather for Siggraph convention in Vancouver

Thousands of digerati gather in Vancouver this week at SIGGRAPH 2011, the annual convention for the leading edge of digital gaming, film and video. The convention, which wraps up Thursday, is a ... Vancouver News latest RSS headlines - Big News Network.com … [Read more...]

SIGGRAPH

Now in its 38th year, the SIGGRAPH conference is the premier international event on computer graphics and interactive techniques. SIGGRAPH 2011 is expected to draw an estimated 25,000 professionals from five continents to Vancouver, British Columbia. Start: Sun, August 7, 2011 8:00 AM End: Thu, August 11, 2011 1:00 AM Location: Vancouver … [Read more...]