Hi al, I thought I would start this thread since I can not find any Java SIGGRAPH news anywhere.
OpenGL 2.0 is out, many interesting things there besides the shading language. www.opengl.org
Anyone else?
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As soon as we get drivers I’m sure that LWJGL will be supporting 2.0…
Cas 
No comments from JCD? I guess he doesn’t have net access there?
Kev
Net access was close to useless at Siggraph. Theoretically we had wireless throughout the whole conference centre, but nobody I know could get a decent connection. Constant dropouts, poor signal strength etc.
Siggraph was really interesting this year. For a typical LA event, which is mainly movie-industry dominated, there was an awful lot of realtime work. In fact, it felt like most of the conference was about shaders and taking the previous non-realtime work and turning into realtime. It’s the first time in the 9 years I’ve been attending that I was so busy that I barely got to see either the animation theatre or exhibition floor. Most of the time was in courses, sketches and papers. Some really interesting courses this year (eg a whole day on realtime shadowing, and another whole day on volume rendering techniques). Really got a lot out of it professionally this year and plenty of business contacts. Expect Aviatrix3D and Xj3D to sprout volume rendering capabilities shortly 
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Btw I was given an internship with Nvidia for next summer (off buying a 6800 GT :D)