Siggraph Production Session, The Yellow Brick Road
July 23, 2013, Siggraph, Anaheim, CA—The production of "OZ, the Great and Powerful" involved a lot of visual effects work to merge the live and CG characters. Visual effects supervisor, Scott Stokdyk...
View ArticleSeven Billion Personalized Futures
September 12, 2013, Intel Developer Forum, San Francisco—Genevieve Bell, director of interactivity, described one view of the future that differs considerably from the clean, high-technology look of...
View ArticleChurchill Awards 2013
September 26, 2013, Churchill Club, Santa Clara, CA—Geoffrey Moore acted as the master of ceremonies and occasional interviewer for the awardees at this event. Following some light entertainment, the...
View ArticleInfinity and Chashu Ramen Review
This film depicts the encounters of a pair of other-world spirits in San Francisco. Kerwin Berk directed the film and stars Hiroshi Kashiwagi as Tenshi, an obnoxious 400-year-old spirit from old Japan...
View ArticleNAMM Honors Smokey Robinson
January 23, 2014, Anaheim—the National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) honored Motown artist Smokey Robinson with the “Music for Life” award. Robinson is recognized for his five decades of...
View ArticleAR in Art and Museums
May 28, 2014, Augmented World Expo, Santa Clara, CA—A series of speakers talked about implementing or adding AR to art projects. The people had to overcome both technical and artistic challenges to...
View ArticleWhat is the Metaverse?
May 7, 2015, Neurogaming Conference, San Francisco—Phillip Rosedale from High Fidelity talked about the changing nature and perceptions of the VR and real worlds, and the things happening at their...
View ArticleDiversity Panel
August 19, 2015, Intel Developer Forum, San Francisco—A panel discussed the issues and implications of diversity in the workplace. Roz Hudnell from Intel acted as moderator with panelists Tim Bajarin...
View ArticleChurchill Club Magical Team Award
September 24, 2015, Churchill Club Awards, Redwood City, CA—The Churchill Club presented their magical team award to Pixar Animation Studios for collaborative breakthroughs that resulted in an...
View ArticleChurchill Club Game Changer Award
September 24, 2015, Churchill Club Awards, Redwood City, CA—The Churchill award for game changer: for indispensable technology and business innovation was presented to LinkedIn. Susan Lund, Partner,...
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