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Day 4:

I thought I had a shift today but it somehow disappeared – less work for me, yay. I went to the Mobile3D course in the afternoon and the talk wasn’t as interesting as I thought it would be. They were talking about M3G and how to use it – things which I can easily learn from reading docs online. I’m beginning to think that the technical courses that I went to weren’t worth it because:

• They give a good overview and they’ll also go into very technical details which at this point wouldn’t sink in since I haven’t started using them yet
• They tend to be long and there’s so much more to see at SIGGRAPH than listening to a lecture”.

The Exhibition Hall opened today, which was really cool too. The Exhibition Hall reminds me of all the E3 pics in the gaming mags, minus the booth babes… although I think I did see one or two of them. I didn’t get a chance to go to every booth there though, only half way.

The Emerging Technologies area was also interesting where different groups of people show cased their latest prototyped devices. Microsoft was there with their Surface device and I got a chance to play with it. It’s pretty nifty even though it’s V1.0.

Also, I think I lost my USB SD card reader.

But here’s a good news: I won a copy of The Sims 2 Deluxe from the EA booth during a Q/A session.

Day 5:

Worked at the store and animation theater shifts, both of which were easier than what I expected. The store had all the M sized t-shirts sold out, which sucked because I wanted to get one myself. Theater was great since I got to watch most of the 3D animated films submitted to SIGGRAPH. Also went to the Electronic Theater which was also similar to the animation theater but had different clips.

One really cool thing I liked at the beginning of the Electronic theater was that they had some old folks in the gaming business (I think) play some vector graphics-based games like Asteroids, and Star Wars. They mentioned something about using lasers and running it via emulation on a 1Ghz machine.

Tomorrow:
Visit the job fair, hand my resume to a few game companies, and visit the Guerrilla studios. I’m also going to be working at the store again.