Michael T. Jones (mtj++at++babar.asd.sgi.com)
Tue, 13 Aug 1996 06:54:45 -0700
First, the Friends of Performer event Wednesday evening (7-9pm) was
really fun. We had a good turnout (including old friends, new users,
and the curious), all but one of the Performer team was there, we had
our InfiniteReality and disk array so we could show new features, and
the questions people asked were great. (perhaps inspired by the gifts
we offered for good questions.)
We also had three product roadmap sessions on the SGI products Open
Inventor, IRIS Performer, and Cosmo 3D. These covered release
schedules, development plans, future directions, portability, and
related topics.
The show was big but seemed (to me) slightly more quiet than in
previous years. As ususal the SGI booths were crowded. There was a
3-pipe InfiniteReality system in the front of one booth and a very
large projection screen (50 feet wide) in the other. These ran demos
during the whole show, all but one of which are based on Performer. The
demos (and the iR) looked good.
Several of the technical papers mentioned Performer, and one (from
Stanford on texture compression) used Performer-town as it's test
database. Our friends from Walt Disney Imagineering and the V.R.
Studio gave a paper on the Aladdin ride (EPCOT, Disneyland) and
spoke about some of the lessons learned from that effort.
Between the three barcos, the big screen, and the Friends of Performer
meeting, I think most performer-savvy people got a chance to see what
InfiniteReality can do, what the many new features of Performer enable,
and what the Performer team is like in person.
In summary, it was a very enjoyable week thanks to all of you who we
had the chance to meet at the show.
Michael
P.S. We're back home, so if we promised to do something for you
upon our return, now's a good time to remind us via email.
P.P.S. We flew home, rather than taking the bus. ;-)
Be seeing you, Phone:415.933.1455 Fax:415.965.2658 M/S:8U-590
Michael T. Jones Silicon Graphics, Advanced Systems Division
mtj++at++sgi.com 2011 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mtn. View, CA 94039-7311
"Du musst Amboss oder Hammer sein" -- Goethe
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