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[robbat2]

Ok, so this morning I ran out of the house at 9.10am, and made it to the stop for the #151 just in the nick of time as the bus was pulling up. I went to NewMIC downtown. I was supposed meet Gordon & Tom (my boss) there at 10am. I was there 9.55am. Tom didn't turn up till 10.05am (he had another meeting in the same building before this tho). We waited until 10.15am for Gordon, and since he wasn't showing up, we went to NewMIC on our own. We had just got in, and started discussing things with Brian when Gordon showed up. The doors in the first skytrain he was on got jammed, then they cut the power between Broadway and Joyce for a while so he was stuck for a bit. Anyway we discussed the Onyx systems and software packages to use for the 3D work, then we went to see NewMIC's cave setup.

Their display setup puts ours at TechBC to shame. Their onyx has an extra graphics pipe, and they have 4 projectors (3 wall, 1 floor). They can also change their screen configuration a lot easier than us, as theirs is designed to flip between a theatre mode (3 screens together) and a cave setup. (cube with 2 faces missing). They also have proper head and controller tracking systems, which we haven't purchased yet. With their tracking stuff, you can do demos and really point to the thing in 3D that you want people to see. But using the cave mode in 3D with tracking is really impressive. The one thing that really got me, was caveQuake3. I can literally peak around the corner and see just that bit 8-)! I would really like to get the guns and multiplayer going in that, as then I can really whip some rear end properly. No more turning around to check your rear, I can just look over my shoulder. Plus ducking and jumping would become literal movements making it a lot easier for me to dodge missiles 8-).