Nvision

So last week I attended the Nvidia driven Nvision graphics conference in downtown San Jose. It was an interesting conference and it definitely has got me thinking whether computer graphics (and related) would be a cool career path...

Anyway I got to see Buzz Aldrin at the premier of an animated movie specifically made for 3D viewing. In case there are people who don't know who Buzz Aldrin is, he was the second man on the moon. The movie was called "Fly me to the moon" and featured some flies that hitched a ride on the Apollo 11 mission to the moon. The 3Dness was cool, however I did leave the theatre with a headache. The movie itself is for five year olds, so needless to say I was a little bored. However the 3D glasses technology was interesting, as they were like spherically polarised lenses or something...


Some of the other things that I saw were at the exhibit hall. There were many stalls and some of them were by companies that were selling/doing lots of cool stuff. For instance I got to see what the latest developments with facial recognition technology were and play around with them; there were stereoscopic 3D LCDs, ones with glasses, the others without; graphics card manufacturers galore; unreleased games that you could play; etc.

There were also workshops and presentations that I could attend. So I went to one about how NASA is using graphics recognition for unmanned space station docking prototypes; SPORE (it's a game) and how they did some graphics stuff; some sessions on how to do cool stuff with photoshop; and a meet and greet with the guys from myth busters.

The conference I think was cool and well worth the $10 price of admission. Especially since I won a graphics card. It just so happened that the guy doing the photoshop presentations was from New Zealand, and he had free stuff to give away, and one of the questions was whether people were from out of the country. So I got given a graphics card since I was from New Zealand as he thought that was cool... :D