Web3D at Siggraph 2009
Overview
SIGGRAPH 2009 the biggest graphics industry gathering is just weeks away! and Web3D Consortium is geared up to showcase innovative X3D content and applications and wow the 3D graphics community. Use of X3D systems has increased steadily throughout the world, delivering durable applications in industry, science, medicine, culture, entertainment and education. Indeed, worlds and scenarios authored over ten years ago still run today and are faster than ever.
We will have our best ever tech talk with over 10 presenters showcasing their innovations. Attend our informative Tutorials and BoFs. Take a break from the show floor and join us at our reception and network with leading Web3D technologist. Vist our booth #2029 and meet our member companies and see their X3D product demos. A must attend event!!! SEE YOU AT SIGGRAPH 2009.
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Table of Contents
Tech Talk
X3D Interoperability Showcase
Booth #2029
Member Sponsors
Birds of a Feather
SIGGRAPH Floor Map
Web3D Tech Talk
Wednesday, August 5 from 3:30 - 5:30 PM   Location:
X3D: The Real-Time 3D Solution for the Web
Siggraph 2009 Web3D Tech Talk Podcast
The Web3D Consortium celebrates a decade of innovation and interoperability in Web3D technology. This year at SIGGRPAGH 2009 in New Orleans, the Web3D Tech Talk will showcase Web3D Consortium’s standard X3D, the only open, royalty-free and ISO-certified technology available today for interactive 3D graphics on the World Wide Web. Join a large innovative community of content and application developers who see this standard as the future for deployment of real-time 3D graphics applications. The Web3D Tech Talk is always a popular event at Siggraph, attended by over 300 conference attendees. Last year we had standing room only. Use of X3D systems has increased steadily throughout the world, delivering durable applications in industry, science, medicine, culture, entertainment and education. Indeed, worlds and scenarios authored over ten years ago still run today and are faster than ever.
If you have incredible and innovative cross platform X3D or VRML content, you may be invited to be a speaker to discuss and demonstrate your products at this Web3D Tech Talk on Wednesday, August 5 from 3:30 - 5:30 PM at the New Orleans, Ernest N. Morial Convention Center - Exhibit Hall floor. You will have 10 minutes to present your work and the tools used going from your concept to the final product. Send your proposal to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) by July 17, 2009.
Participation is open to all consortium members. Prospective presenters are invited to submit their proposal for review to the Web3D consortium selection committee. Submission must include:
- Brief abstract of your presentation.
- One page summary of your X3D content/innovation.
- Link to your X3D content or screen shots.
- Preliminary slide set of your presentation not exceeding 10 minutes.
Important Dates:
- July 17: Submit your X3D content and Presentation to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
- July 17-23: Formal jury selection by a select panel of X3D experts and judges.
- July 24: Acceptances announced to submitters.
- July 27-30: Final Preparations and virtual rehearsals.
- August 4: Rehearsal in New Orleans (evening).
- August 5: Talk Time!
2009 Presenters:
Details to follow
Our 2006, 2007, and 2008 Web3D Tech Talk events were a big success. Check out our Siggraph 2007 Web3D Tech Talk podcast. We plan to build a podcast this year too.
X3D Interoperability Showcase
Details to follow.
Come join X3D vendors in showcasing X3D browser interoperability. This event during our Tech Talk will showcase how browsers are playing the same content.
<Web3D Consortium Booth #2029 - X3D Technology Exhibit
Meet the Web3D Consortium team in booth #2029 at SIGGRAPH 2009 and become a part of this emerging standard. Come see our X3D innovators show off their latest real-world 3D applications and content, and find out how you can use X3D for your real-time 3D graphic needs. Web3D consortium will also host member companies to exhibit their X3D based technologies in our booth (#2029). Technologies to be exhibited are Medical imaging, Scientific visualization, Geospatial, 3D education and CAD.
- Bitmanagement will showcase textured 3D models of complete cities constructed automatically and visualized with the high performing BS Contact GeoVRML/X3D viewer interactively on the web.
- Fraunhofer will amaze you with its augmented reality demonstration using pre-computed radiance transfer to simulate reflection of surrounding real light on the virtual object that is merged into the real scene.
- Yumetech will be demonstrating applications developed using its Xj3D and ChefX3D toolkits, see several new applications being developed using these toolkits including domain specific editors for mass market 3D printing.
Web3D Booth Partners and Sponsors
SIGGRAPH 2009 Floor Map
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Web3D BOF’s
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| Tuesday 4 August 10:30 am-12:00 Noon |
X3D, MIDI and Sound Description: Focus on interfacing X3D and MIDI for interchange of MIDI data between MIDI applications and X3D browsers; with lesser emphasis on traditional embedding of audio via the X3D Sound node. |
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| Tuesday 4 August 12:30 pm- 2:00 pm |
ACM SIGGRAPH Carto BOF Annual Meeting Description: ACM SIGGRAPH Cartographic Visualization Project Birds of a Feather Meeting* The ACM SIGGRAPH Cartographic Visualization (Carto) BOF explores how viewpoints and techniques from the computer graphics community can be effectively applied to cartographic and spatial data sets. |
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| Tuesday 4 August 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm |
X3D Medical Working Group Description: The X3D Medical Working Group (MWG) focuses on developing a standard for 3D medical images on the web based on the X3D standard, and has proposed a draft extension to the X3D specification to include volume rendering capabilities to view these images. Join us for a discussion and demonstration of MedX3D (the proposed X3D profile for viewing 3D medical images), the MWG’s activities with the DICOM standards organization, a review of the volume rendering extension to X3D and the future projects of the MWG. |
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| Tues 4 August 3:30 pm-5:00 pm |
Web3D User Interface Working Group Description: In Industry, Entertainment, and Academia, the durability and portability of Web3D content is being tested in new frontiers of computing and interface paradigms. From immersive systems to game-stations to hand-helds, affordable hardware and devices are enabling new metaphors for 3D, ergonomically valid interfaces. In order to tap the rich potential for networked virtual spaces, content designers need standards that provide better capabilities to access, manage, and use a wide range of input devices, as well as more expressive power to describe novel interaction techniques. Come and help define the next agenda and roadmap for Web3D UI. |
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| Wednesday 5 August 10:30 am-12 noon |
Web3D CAD Working Group Description: The Web3D Consortium’s CAD group will hold a BOF meeting at Siggraph to update the community on recent developments in the X3D standard. These include a pipeline from Collada to X3D that preserves BREP structures. Several routes from popular CAD tools will be demonstrated to show how to get your CAD data to the web. If you care about how to get CAD data to web visualization systems then join this group to see the latest updates from the consortium. |
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