SIGGRAPH 2020: 47th Annual Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques

Chair(s):
- Kristy Pron
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- Walt Disney Imagineering
Location:
United States of America
Dates:
August 17-28, 2020
Website:
https://s2020.siggraph.org/
Conference Theme:
Think Beyond
Conference Overview:
The 47th annual, and first fully virtual ONLINE SIGGRAPH Conference was originally meant to take place in Washington, D.C. before the COVID-19 epidemic hit.
Explore the latest innovations in your field and connect with a global community of creators and thought-leaders at SIGGRAPH 2020. Experience this year’s top advancements in computer graphics and interactive techniques from the comfort of your home or office.
Conference Committee Chairs:
ACM SIGGRAPH Frontiers Chair: MK Haley, Walt Disney Imagineering
Adaptability Focus Area Co-Chair: Christine Holmes, Blue Sky Studios
Adaptability Focus Area Co-Chair: Natalie Rountree
Art Gallery Chair: Nik Apostolides, Johns Hopkins University
Art Papers Chair: Andres Burbano, Universidad De Los Andes
Attendee Experience Manager: Corinne Price, ICF
Courses Chair: Susan Reiser, Unc Asheville & Vassar College
Creative Development Director: Larry Bafia, Centre For Digital Media
Electronic Theater Director: Munkhtsetseg Nandigjav, Savannah College of Art And Design
Education Liaison: Andrew Duchowski, Clemson University
Emerging Technologies Chair: Dani Belko, Facebook
Games Focus Area Chair: Carlos Gonzalez-Ochoa
General Submissions Chair: Ginger Alford, SMU Lyle School of Engineering
Graphicsnet Chair: David Spoelstra, Mediamachine LLC
Immersive Pavilion Chair: Chris Redmann, Unity Technologies
International Resources Chair: June Kim, University of New South Wales
Posters Chair: Ana Cecilia Balliache Liendo, Schell Games
Production Sessions Chair: Derrick Nau, Dreamworks Animation
Real-Time Live! Chair: Marc Olano, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
SIGGRAPH Executive Experience Co-Chair: Thierry Frey, Reel FX Animation Studios
SIGGRAPH Executive Experience Co-Chair: Joanne Green, University of Pittsburgh
SIGGRAPH Labs Co-Chair: Erik Brunvand, University of Utah
SIGGRAPH Labs Co-Chair: Forrest Lucas, Two Bit Circus
Student Volunteers Chair: Sarah Rust, Rooster Teeth
Technical Papers Chair: Szymon Rusinkiewicz, Princeton University
VR Theater Director: Monica Cappiello, Cogswell Polytechnical College
SIGGRAPH 2021 Conference Chair: Pol Jeremias-Vila, Pixar Animation Studios
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Acknowledgements and Awards Announced During the Conference:

SIGGRAPH 2020 Best Art Paper: Xiang, Zhu, Wang, Maher, Liu, et al. …
Type: [Best Art Paper]
Awarded Work: []
Awardee(s): [Xiang] [Zhu] [Wang] [Maher] [Liu] [Zhu] [Chen] [Liang]
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SIGGRAPH 2020 Computer Graphics Achievement Award: Bala
Type: [Computer Graphics Achievement Award]
Awardee(s): [Bala]
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SIGGRAPH 2020 Distinguished Artist Award: Shaw
Type: [Distinguished Artist Award]
Awardee(s): [Shaw]
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SIGGRAPH 2020 Distinguished Educator Award: Greenberg
Type: [Distinguished Educator Award]
Awardee(s): [Greenberg]
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SIGGRAPH 2020 Electronic Theater Audience Choice: Meacham
Type: [Electronic Theater Audience Choice]
Awarded Work: [To: Girard]
Awardee(s): [Meacham]
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SIGGRAPH 2020 Electronic Theater Best in Show: Milsom
Type: [Electronic Theater Best in Show]
Awarded Work: [Loop]
Awardee(s): [Milsom]
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SIGGRAPH 2020 Electronic Theater Best Student Project: Faure
Type: [Electronic Theater Best Student Project]
Awarded Work: [Gunpowder]
Awardee(s): [Faure]
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SIGGRAPH 2020 Electronic Theater Jurys Choice: Schelbli
Type: [Electronic Theater Jurys Choice]
Awarded Work: [The Beauty]
Awardee(s): [Schelbli]
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SIGGRAPH 2020 Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award: Li
Type: [Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award]
Awardee(s): [Li]
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SIGGRAPH 2020 Outstanding Service Award: Frey
Type: [Outstanding Service Award]
Awardee(s): [Frey]
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SIGGRAPH 2020 Practitioner Award: Baron
Type: [Practitioner Award]
Awardee(s): [Baron]
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SIGGRAPH Videos Reviews Containing Conference Content:

It's all graavy!
Studio(s): [European Securities and Markets Authority]
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[SVR Issue #194, Track #01]

Overwatch 2: Zero Hour
Studio(s): [Blizzard Entertainment]
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[SVR Issue #100, Track #02]

Worlds Beyond Earth
Studio(s): [American Museum of Natural History]
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[SVR Issue #100, Track #03]

MAVEN Explores Mars to Understand Radio Interference at Earth
Studio(s): [Conceptual Image Lab at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center]
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[SVR Issue #100, Track #10]

Cinesite's VFX for 'Avengers: Endgame'
Studio(s): [Cinesite]
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[SVR Issue #194, Track #11]

World of Warcraft: Shadowlands
Studio(s): [Blizzard Entertainment]
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[SVR Issue #100, Track #12]

OEIL Pour OEIL
Studio(s): [ESMA (Ecole Supérieure des Métiers Artistiques)]
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[SVR Issue #100, Track #13]

For a Fistful of Toffees
Studio(s): [ESMA (Ecole Supérieure des Métiers Artistiques)]
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[SVR Issue #194, Track #14]

Apollo 13 Views of the Moon in 4K
Studio(s): [NASA Scientific Visualization Studio]
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[SVR Issue #194, Track #16]
Animations Shown at the Conference:

1st Step - From Earth to the Moon
Director(s): [Courtial]
Studio(s): [Faber Courtial]
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It's all graavy!
Studio(s): [European Securities and Markets Authority]
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[SVR Issue #194, Track #01]

Overwatch 2: Zero Hour
Studio(s): [Blizzard Entertainment]
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[SVR Issue #100, Track #02]

Worlds Beyond Earth
Studio(s): [American Museum of Natural History]
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[SVR Issue #100, Track #03]

MAVEN Explores Mars to Understand Radio Interference at Earth
Studio(s): [Conceptual Image Lab at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center]
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[SVR Issue #100, Track #10]

Cinesite's VFX for 'Avengers: Endgame'
Studio(s): [Cinesite]
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[SVR Issue #194, Track #11]

World of Warcraft: Shadowlands
Studio(s): [Blizzard Entertainment]
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[SVR Issue #100, Track #12]

OEIL Pour OEIL
Studio(s): [ESMA (Ecole Supérieure des Métiers Artistiques)]
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[SVR Issue #100, Track #13]

For a Fistful of Toffees
Studio(s): [ESMA (Ecole Supérieure des Métiers Artistiques)]
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[SVR Issue #194, Track #14]
Art Show Entries:
Experience Entries:

Type: [Appy Hour]
Explore NASA: An Augmented Reality Tour of the NASA Glenn Research Center
Developer(s): [Mindek]
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Type: [Studio (SIGGRAPH Labs)]
3D Sketching for Multi-Pose Products: An Interactive Showcase
Organizer(s): [Lee] [Ham] [Kim] [Bae]
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Type: [Studio (SIGGRAPH Labs)]
Human-in-the-Loop Differential Subspace Search in High-Dimensional Latent Space
Organizer(s): [Chiu] [Koyama] [Lai] [Igarashi] [Yue]
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Type: [Studio (SIGGRAPH Labs)]
Immersive Dome Projection Media
Organizer(s): [Jushchyshyn] [Mones-Hattal]
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Type: [Studio (SIGGRAPH Labs)]
Immersive Light Field Video With A Layered Mesh Representation
Organizer(s): [Broxton] [Flynn] [Overbeck] [Erickson] [Hedman] [DuVall] [Dourgarian] [Busch] [Whalen] [Debevec]
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Type: [Studio (SIGGRAPH Labs)]
MagneLayer: Force Field Fabrication for Rapid Prototyping of Haptic Interactions
Organizer(s): [Yasu]
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Type: [Studio (SIGGRAPH Labs)]
One Shot 3D Photography
Organizer(s): [Kopf] [Matzen] [Alsisan] [Quigley] [Ge] [Chong] [Patterson] [Frahm] [Wu] [Yu] [Zhang] [He] [Vajda] [Saraf] [Cohen]
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Type: [Studio (SIGGRAPH Labs)]
REACH: Building the Volumetric Future
Organizer(s): [Peña]
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Type: [Studio (SIGGRAPH Labs)]
Robot Telekinesis: An Interactive Showcase
Organizer(s): [Lee] [Kim] [An] [Bae]
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Type: [Studio (SIGGRAPH Labs)]
Story-Go-Round: Augmented Reality Storytelling in the Multidisciplinary Classroom
Organizer(s): [Berreth] [Polyak] [Fitzgerald]
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Type: [Studio (SIGGRAPH Labs)]
XNect: real-time multi-person 3D motion capture with a single RGB camera
Organizer(s): [Mehta] [Sotnychenko] [Mueller] [Xu] [Elgharib] [Fua] [Seidel] [Rhodin] [Pons-Moll] [Theobalt]
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Learning Entries:
Animated Robotic Sculptures: Using SMA Motion Display to Create Lifelike Movements
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Artistic License in Heritage Visualisation: VR Sydney Cove Circa 1800
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Body RemiXer: Extending Bodies to Stimulate Social Connection in an Immersive Installation
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Cacophonic Choir
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Cultural Viz: An Aesthetic Approach to Cultural Analytics
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Enhanced Family Tree: Evolving Research and Expression
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Hybrid Embroidery: Exploring Interactive Fabrication in Hand Crafts
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Inverse-rendering Based Analysis of the Fine Illumination Effects in the Salvator Mundi
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Pixel of Matter: New Ways of Seeing With an Active Volumetric Filmmaking System
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REALational Perspectives: Strategies for Expanding Beyond the Here-and-Now in Mobile Augmented Reality (AR) Art
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Resonant Waves: Immersed in Geometry
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Rilievo: Artistic Scene Authoring via Interactive Height Map Extrusion in VR
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Stepping Inside the Classification Cube: An Intimate Interaction With an AI System
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The Unknown Person
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Visual Indeterminacy in GAN Art
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Paper

Type: [Courses]
A Whirlwind Introduction to Computer Graphics
Organizer(s): [Bailey]
Presenter(s): [Bailey]
Entry No.: [16]
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Type: [Courses]
Advances in Monte Carlo Rendering: The Legacy of Jaroslav Krivanek
Organizer(s): [Keller]
Presenter(s): [Gautron] [Vorba] [Georgiev] [Šik] [d’Eon] [Grittmann] [Vevoda] [Kondapaneni]
Entry No.: [22]
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Type: [Courses]
Automatic 3D Reconstruction of Structured Indoor Environments
Organizer(s): [Pintore]
Presenter(s): [Mura] [Ganovelli] [Fuentes] [Pajarola] [Gobbetti]
Entry No.: [15]
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Type: [Courses]
Color Basics for Digital Media and Visualization
Organizer(s): [Rhyne]
Presenter(s): [Rhyne]
Entry No.: [21]
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Type: [Courses]
Computational Time-Resolved Imaging, Single-Photon sensing, and Non-Line-of-Sight Imaging
Organizer(s): [Lindell]
Presenter(s): [O’Toole] [Narasimhan] [Raskar]
Entry No.: [20]
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Type: [Courses]
Deep Optics: Joint Design of Optics and Image Recovery Algorithms for Domain Specific Cameras
Organizer(s): [Peng]
Presenter(s): [Veeraraghavan] [Heidrich] [Wetzstein]
Entry No.: [18]
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Type: [Courses]
Dynamic Deformables: Implementation and Production Practicalities
Organizer(s): [Kim]
Presenter(s): [Eberle]
Entry No.: [02]
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Type: [Courses]
Eye-Based Interaction in Graphical Systems: 20 Years Later Gaze Applications, Analytics, & Interaction
Organizer(s): [Duchowski]
Presenter(s): [Duchowski]
Entry No.: [07]
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Type: [Courses]
Fundamentals of Color Science
Organizer(s): [Ferwerda]
Presenter(s): [Ferwerda]
Entry No.: [17]
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Type: [Courses]
Intelligent Tools for Creative Graphics
Organizer(s): [Shamir]
Presenter(s): [Mitra] [Umetani] [Koyama]
Entry No.: [10]
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Type: [Courses]
Introduction to Cinematic Scientific Visualization
Organizer(s): [Borkiewicz]
Presenter(s): [Christensen] [Wyatt] [Wright]
Entry No.: [05]
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Type: [Courses]
Introduction to the Vulkan Computer Graphics API
Organizer(s): [Bailey]
Presenter(s): [Bailey]
Entry No.: [24]
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Type: [Courses]
ML/DL Roundup
Organizer(s): [Glassner]
Presenter(s): [Glassner]
Entry No.: [03]
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Type: [Courses]
Moving Mobile Graphics
Organizer(s): [Barker]
Presenter(s): [Martin] [Guy] [Munoz-Lopez] [Kapoulkine] [Chang]
Entry No.: [23]
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Type: [Courses]
Physically Based Shading in Theory and Practice
Organizer(s): [McAuley] [Hill]
Presenter(s): [Belcour] [Earl] [Harrysson] [Hillaire] [Hoffman] [Kerley] [Patry] [Pieké] [Skliar] [Stone]
Entry No.: [14]
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Type: [Courses]
Physics-Based Differentiable Rendering: From Theory to Implementation
Organizer(s): [Zhao]
Presenter(s): [Jakob] [Li]
Entry No.: [11]
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Type: [Courses]
RTX Accelerated Ray Tracing With OptiX 7
Organizer(s): [Wald]
Presenter(s): [Parker]
Entry No.: [19]
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Type: [Courses]
Seeing Around Corners Using Time of Flight
Organizer(s): [Raskar]
Presenter(s): [Velten] [Bauer] [Swedish]
Entry No.: [13]
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Type: [Courses]
The Taichi Programming Language
Organizer(s): [Hu]
Presenter(s): [Hu]
Entry No.: [04]
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Type: [Courses]
Troubleshooting and Cleanup Techniques for 3D Printing
Organizer(s): [Winkel]
Presenter(s): [Winkel]
Entry No.: [08]
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Type: [Courses]
Understanding AR Inside and Out --- Part One: A Solid Grounding
Organizer(s): [Billinghurst]
Presenter(s): [Stannus] [Tsotsos] [Turner] [Ma]
Entry No.: [06]
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Type: [Courses]
Understanding AR Inside and Out --- Part Two: Expanding Out and Into the World
Organizer(s): [Ventura]
Presenter(s): [Billinghurst] [Zollmann] [Stannus] [Driancourt]
Entry No.: [12]
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Type: [Courses]
Virtual Hands in VR: Motion Capture, Synthesis, and Perception
Organizer(s): [Jörg]
Presenter(s): [Ye] [Neff] [Mueller] [Zordan]
Entry No.: [09]
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Type: [Courses]
What We Talk About, When We Talk About Story
Organizer(s): [Caldwell]
Presenter(s): [Caldwell]
Entry No.: [01]
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Type: [Educator’s Forum]
An Interactive Introduction toWebGL
Presenter(s): [Angel] [Shreiner]
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Type: [Educator’s Forum]
Arts, Journalism, and Computer Science: Collaborations that advance our community
Presenter(s): [Cole] [Moser] [Scoy]
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Type: [Educator’s Forum]
Best Practices in Computer Classroom Layout
Presenter(s): [Biggs] [Leckman] [Raymond]
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Type: [Educator’s Forum]
Deploying VR in a Science Museum: Lessons Learned
Presenter(s): [Rehnberg] [Alford] [Roberts] [Boulton] [Hofbauer] [Stubbs]
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Type: [Educator’s Forum]
Educating the Next Generation of Animation Professionals
Presenter(s): [Biggs] [Oropallo] [Raymond] [Hall] [Reichenbach]
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Type: [Educator’s Forum]
GROOVY ASSIGNMENT: Immersive Dome Projection Media
Presenter(s): [Jushchyshyn] [Mones-Hattal]
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Type: [Educator’s Forum]
Interactive Web-Based Programming through Game-Based Methodologies
Presenter(s): [Kenwright]
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Type: [Educator’s Forum]
School to Industry: Preparing for Change
Presenter(s): [Goldman] [Berridge] [Lainas] [Tichenor]
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Type: [Educator’s Forum]
Story-Go-Round Augmented Reality Storytelling in the Multidisciplinary Classroom
Presenter(s): [Berreth] [Polyak] [Fitzgerald]
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Type: [Educator’s Forum]
XR for Everyone, Everywhere
Presenter(s): [Layng] [Herscher] [Perlin]
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Type: [Panels]
Bringing VFX to the Table
Presenter(s): [Hanlin] [Holmes] [Sayed] [Teich]
Entry No.: [03]
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Type: [Panels]
Electronic Theater Director's Panel
Presenter(s): [Nandigjav]
Entry No.: [05]
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Type: [Panels]
NYIT Computer Graphics Lab Then and Now
Presenter(s): [Grebe] [Catmull] [Smith] [Hanrahan] [Rygiel] [Hopen]
Entry No.: [04]
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Type: [Panels]
PDI - The Beginning: Reflection on the Inception of PDI 40 Years Ago
Presenter(s): [Rosendahl] [Chuang] [Entis]
Entry No.: [06]
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Type: [Panels]
Technologies In Immersive Experiential Marketing
Presenter(s): [Curley] [Cawsey] [Canning] [Perea] [Conlogue] [Moshasha]
Entry No.: [01]
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Type: [Panels]
VR Theater Director's Panel Part 1
Presenter(s): [Cappiello]
Entry No.: [02]
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Type: [Panels]
VR Theater Director's Panel Part 2
Presenter(s): [Cappiello]
Entry No.: [07]
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Type: [Talks (Sketches)]
Auto-Adaptivity: An Optimization-Based Approach to Spatial Adaptivity for Smoke Simulations
Presenter(s): [Nielsen] [Stamatelos] [Bojsen-Hansen] [Bridson]
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Type: [Talks (Sketches)]
QuickETC2: How to Finish ETC2 Compression within 1 ms
Presenter(s): [Nah]
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