#rtradvances ACM SIGGRAPH part II session began with Activision ‘s Michael Vance announcing a release of the Call of Duty Caldera OpenUSD dataset for academic and non-commercial use

Wow! 🤩 New production USD dataset “Caldera” from Activision revealed at #rtradvances #SIGGRAPH2024. Four square miles! Natalya Tatarchuk 🇺🇦

We are so excited to be sharing this milestone with the industry at large hoping to spur innovation and learning from real-world production datasets! Michael Vance just shared more details about this massive dataset at ACM SIGGRAPH #rtradvances

If you are watching the presentations in #rtradvances ACM SIGGRAPH 2024 right now, you can discuss the talks and ask questions to the speaker in our Advances Discord server: discord.gg/Ns2K8arfHA

#rtradvances from ACM SIGGRAPH 2024: talk by Simon Taylor from Electronic Arts FrostbiteEngine on "Flexible and Extensible Shader Authoring in Frostbite with Serac" slides are shared: advances.realtimerendering.com/s2024/index.ht… Enjoy!

If you attended #rtradvances at ACM SIGGRAPH 2024 in person, would love to know your thoughts - send in: forms.gle/9QkRoeZG9eEXkG… In particular, next year it'll be 20 years since Advances started. Would love to hear your thoughts on what you'd like to see (if SIGGRAPH invites us!)

All keynotes and talks at EGSR 2024 are now available on the YouTube channel: youtube.com/@egsr2024

My SIGGRAPH 2024 slides (with speaker notes) are now available in ARM's website. Moving Mobile Graphics: Transitioning HypeHype to Physically Based Rendering community.arm.com/arm-community-…

The talk from Michał Iwanicki from Activision Central Tech on Neural Light Grid: Modernizing Irradiance Volumes with Machine Learning is online - check out its insights as well as learnings on ML in rendering at runtime #rtradvances ACM SIGGRAPH 2024 tinyurl.com/advances24-nlg

This year I did a more in-depth talk on trend from gaming, including players' perspectives trends, technology and platforms in the #rtradvances ACM SIGGRAPH 2024 intro - the talk is now online advances.realtimerendering.com/s2024/index.ht… Enjoy!

Michael Vance's presentation on the Call of Duty Open-Sourcing a USD data set from Call of Duty: Warzone Caldera Map) from ACM SIGGRAPH 2024 #rtradvances is now posted - enjoy! advances.realtimerendering.com/s2024/index.ht… See our blog for more: blog.activision.com/activision/202…

The Neural Light Grid: A Scalable Production-Ready Learned Irradiance Volume is an excellent write up on this topic, check it out! research.activision.com/publications/2…

This team has always been incredible at accomplishing poignant and beautiful experiences, harnessing real-time tech to the utmost. It was an honor to help them along the way. Well done, Ves and team! <3

Cheat dev economy is complex and sprawling, and teams like our TeamRicochet are fighting this relentless fight to make the game safer and more enjoyable to play for our players and all. Here's their Progress Report 👊 callofduty.com/blog/2024/10/c…

Real-time audio in games these days has an incredible amount of complexity, whether it's about advanced spatial reverb accounting for physics of the materials, or live mixing to prioritize crucial sounds - learn more here about our approach in Call of Duty callofduty.com/blog/2024/10/c…

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THANK YOU to our entire community around the world for making #BlackOps6's launch the biggest Call of Duty opening weekend to date. Black Ops is back!

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