by SIGGGRAPH 2010
Trip Report of Cool Things Aleksey Saw in the Exhibition Hall
(Coolest stuff at the top.)
– FusionIO had the coolest demo!! 1500 DVD-quality videos streaming
from a single Fusion IO (RAM-based) 640 GB drive displayed onto a large
virtual screen (composed of 16 – that’s 4×4 large displayes). all 1500
videos were displayed simultaneiously in tiny little rectangles.
– Digital Double Agency – a French company (www.adnda.com) used to capture
your face (three sessions of 4 hours each) and a wide variety of facial expression; and capture your voice; and then the double can talk and interact — so you can capture a celebrity’s likeness and have the digital double act in movies; or so you can have an avatar online.
– Lots of 3D scanners and 3D printers. There was a 3D scanner booth
next to a 3D printer booth – so you could scan something, take the
files next door, and print a plastic replica!
– Mixed Reality demos by Canon. Augmented Reality is additonal information
being overlayed onto the physical universe. Mixed Reality is reality overlayed
over a basic block in the physical universe. This can be used to make mockups
of houses, boats, skyscrapers, landscaping, etc. You have to view it through
computer goggles.
– A virtual world navigation interface from UCSD / King Abdullah University consisting of about 10 screens arranged at an angle forming roughly a hemisphere, you can stand near it and be surrounded by images of the virtual world, and walk around in it using a special controller — and it’s all in 3D, by the way! (You have to wear the 3D glasses).