It had been an interestingly busy past 2 weeks, when 2 groups of rather prominent people in the VR and computer graphics field were scheduled to visit us on the same day. We had to brush up most of our works that we intended to put up as fast as possible. But due to another project in progress, we were kind of shorthanded and ended up with me being the only one scrubbing up the project to put on show for the 2 visits. And hell was it tedious to clean up that model we did. Basically it was ported from another modeling software, so many of the objects got kinda screwed up. (think of a screwed up teleporter and you can get a pretty good idea) Well, okay it’s not THAT bad. A wall is still a wall… juz that the finer details got well, finer than we needed them to be.
Anyway, the 2 distinguish visitors were namely:
- Jaron Lanier
- 2 high ranking dudes from LucasFilms (Singapore)
- So who is Jaron Lanier? Basically he is a genius, ‘nuff said. He was the one who coined the term ‘Virtual Reality’ and got the whole world interesting in developing stuff for the VR world.
Besides that, he is a music composer, artist, author and a public speaker. And no juz any music composer mind you. He writes chamber and orchestral music. Anyone interested to know more about him juz do a search on Google with his name…
- I remembered it’s the CEO (Singapore office?) and one of the directors of the software dev team who came to visit. Unfortunately, there was no need for us small fries to be at the presentation so I din really get to see who they were. But then our works were showcased so I guess it wasn’t that bad.
The only bad thing was the rush job to clean up the project we wanted to show so naturally it wasn’t 100% perfect, but well, it was good enuff. There’s always room for improvements.
Jaron Lanier and me. (Hmm.. how do i center this text?)
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