SIGGRAPH and Access Grid
According to Wikipedia:
SIGGRAPH is the name of the annual conference of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery). It stands for Special Interest Group on GRAPHics and Interactive Techniques. It draws thousands of people from companies and schools in the areas of engineering, video gaming, graphics, and motion pictures. In 2008 SIGGRAPH Asia held a conference in Singapore. Highlights of the conference include the Animation Theater and Electronic Theater presentations where recently created CGI movies are played.
According to Access Grid.org
"The Access Grid is an ensemble of resources including multimedia large-format displays, presentation and interactive environments, and interfaces to Grid middleware and to visualization environments. These resources are used to support group-to-group interactions across the Grid."
I find it interesting that technology has moved so quickly. It was not long ago that video conferencing was cutting edge. Now it's gotten to the point where entire immersive multimedia experiences can be shared with people across the globe.
SIGGRAPH is the name of the annual conference of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery). It stands for Special Interest Group on GRAPHics and Interactive Techniques. It draws thousands of people from companies and schools in the areas of engineering, video gaming, graphics, and motion pictures. In 2008 SIGGRAPH Asia held a conference in Singapore. Highlights of the conference include the Animation Theater and Electronic Theater presentations where recently created CGI movies are played.
According to Access Grid.org
"The Access Grid is an ensemble of resources including multimedia large-format displays, presentation and interactive environments, and interfaces to Grid middleware and to visualization environments. These resources are used to support group-to-group interactions across the Grid."
I find it interesting that technology has moved so quickly. It was not long ago that video conferencing was cutting edge. Now it's gotten to the point where entire immersive multimedia experiences can be shared with people across the globe.
I liked what was said in the video shown during class: "While Bush was wagging his finger at North Korea, we were dancing with South Korea." Technology definitely moves quickly, and most of us are oblivious to this. I find it very interesting that the news media focus mainly on political relationships, whereas, with technology, we have formed these impressive bonds all across the world...
ReplyDeleteSo basicaly, a for of an Access Grid is the 5-projector display in Norman Gym? Technology is relly going above and beyond!!
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