For over 40 years, SIGGRAPH has been the place to gather knowledge and spark collaboration between diverse disciplines—because our vast, robust industry becomes stronger and healthier when leaders converge.
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LearnFrom the latest visual effects and animation technology to VR and game design, SIGGRAPH 2019 offers courses, talks, and panels that make for a crash course in the latest research and techniques.
CreateFuel your creativity with cutting-edge tools when you demo the latest in mixed reality or new technologies in the Experience Hall, and then create works of art, whether functional or novel, in the Studio.
DiscoverAt the exhibition, explore the latest technology that’s changing the workplace for CG and VFX professionals, and throughout the conference see how visionaries are pushing positive change with presentation of adaptive technologies.
ConnectJoin artists, researchers, students, and pioneers who come from all over the world to forge bonds between ideas—and each other. SIGGRAPH provides many fun networking opportunities that foster creative relationships between passionate people.
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From Previs to Final in Five minutes. Epic Games teamed up with Ninja Theory, Cubic Motion, and 3Lateral to create the world's first believable human driven live by an actress within an Unreal Engine game world.
A tactile feedback device that delivered effective and expressive tactile sensations in free air, without requiring the user to wear a physical device. Combined with interactive graphics and applications, AIREAL enabled users to feel virtual objects, experience free-air textures and receive haptic feedback with free-space gestures.
Birdly was an installation that explored the experience of a bird in flight. Unlike a common flight simulator, users do not control a machine. Instead, they embody a bird, the Red Kite. To evoke this embodiment, the system relied on sensory-motor coupling. Participants controlled the simulator with hands and arms, and a head-mounted display provided a first-person perspective of a bird.
