Once again, Ben and I are headed off to SIGGRAPH, this time in sunny Vancouver BC.  Same as before, we’ll send back reports on anything we find interesting.  This time, however, Ben has the shiny new blogging phone.  If you’re going (or you’re a Vancouveran) and would like to meet up, let us know.  I’ll be the one with the SIGGRAPH t-shirt and a laptop.

Want.  Sony showed off a new display device in the Emerging Technologies exhibit with can show 360 images in a cylindrical projection and allows for a “hand waving” interface to virtually spin the cylinder around.  Expected to be on the market in 2 years.

Some great sessions yesterday, including some research in preattentive vision memory and seeing some advances in medical dataset visualization.  Two talks on bat physiology too.  No time to write a full report, but here’s some links…

www.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/doi/10.1109/MCG.2006.44

www.neuroconstruct.org/

www.wholebraincatalog.org/

www.gensat.org/retina.jsp

cellimagelibrary.org/

smallworldexplorations.org/

And the quote of the day “The gain in the brain comes mainly from the stain.”

If you close your eyes, it’s lovely here at LAX.  Weather is simply perfect, maybe a slight chill in the shade. Should be a comfortable week, too bad we’ll be inside for much of it.