Sheldon Brown, author of Scalable City, is the Director of the new Center for Next-Generation Digital Media which will focus on developing a different kind of virtual world which proposes to be visually richer and more flexible than existing virtual worlds.  The center is in a partnership with IBM and will use their new platform based on ‘System Z’ mainframes.
I actually just saw Scalable City (in stereo!) at the Stereo Displays and Applications conference in San Jose.  It was definitely one of the better clips shown during the 2 hour …

Inlakesh Alaken, an event organized by Joanna Ambrosio, one of our Masters students, was a resounding success. The event linked 3 sites – Vancouver, Guadalajara and Los Angeles – in an evening of shared video feeds, tandem graffiti and laser tagging. Photo documentation for the event can be found on flickr.

Rick Overington, our motion capture technician, pointed me to this interesting article on stereoscopic production in Hollywood.

Example XSI scene with stereoscopic camera rig.

3rd Anniversary Mátika Magazine
March 11th, 2009, 6pm-11pm
ECUAD / IDS 2nd Floor – live video broadcasting + graffiti + fun – Vancouver + Guadalajara + Los Angeles – Joanna Ambrosio, one of our Masters students is organizing this event in the IDS.

During reading week, Dr. Seok-Hyung Bae from the University of Toronto came to Emily Carr to give a two day workshop on ilovesketch, a software program that he developed to help designers sketch ideas in 3D.

A workshop in the mocap studio all about stereoscopic projection.