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Fix your Motion sickness or kinetosis with VR devices

Few months back, I started to work on exploring usage of the Kinect with Maya, but lately was asked to worked on many of the Autodesk Cloud Services implementation and a WEBGL implementation for the Autodesk 3D viewer. While working on this project, I had the chance to try few others things, like a VR experience using the 3d viewer (source code posted here). The 3d viewer technology was not design for VR, nor it was intended to be in... Read more →

Technical Evangelist Intern WANTED.

Are you currently pursuing a bachelor’s or master’s in Computer science or a discipline with a strong computing component? Are you looking for a life changing Internship experience during your summer? Look no more, Autodesk Developer Network is looking for an enthusiastic intern evangelist for this summer in the Bay Area. If you’re excited by design, and by working with 3D on the web then keep reading. You will start by learning the API and developing a plan for writing... Read more →

Still not registered for the free developer conference?

ADN Hunter If you are attending the Free ADN developer conference at AU next week, Photograph these rare animals at DevDay and AU for a chance to win an iPad Mini We’d love to meet you and talk to you about the amazing things you are doing with Autodesk technology so to encourage you to say “hi” and to make it fun, we’re running a small competition. The rules are simple: Download the AU Mobile App Track down as many... Read more →

Taking a break

I’m up in the USA enjoying 3 weeks of hiking in the National Parks, and unfortunaly will not have any computer with me to play with programing. I'll start at Yellowstone for a week, and will then go south through Zion, Bryce, Arches, Grand Canyon, and few others... The last time, I went to Zion and Bryce it was at my honeymoon trip 20 years ago. I should be back in August and post here again. This one is real... Read more →

It works on my machine

It isn't great, but... I'll give it the classic dev guarantee of "it works on my machine". http://www.thenetworkadministrator.com/top20.htm Read more →

Autodesk OrgOrgChart

For something completely different than usual, here is an interesting graphical representation of the organisational changes Autodesk has been through in the last couple of years. The OrgOrgChart (Organic Organization Chart) project looks at the evolution of a company structure over time. A snapshot of the Autodesk organizational hierarchy was taken each day between May 2007 and June 2011: This representation is reminiscent of the Disk Tree visualization technique developed at Xerox Parc (Chi E.H., S.K. Card, 1999, Sensemaking of... Read more →

Merry Christmas, Joyeux Noël, Fröhe Weihnachten, Buon Natale, 圣诞快乐, メリークリスマス

I've just started an extended break with my family, so it's time for me to sign off and wish you all a very Merry Christmas (or Happy Holidays for those of you that are non-denominational in your festive activities) and the very best for 2013. I'll be back online on January 9th (unless I end up having trouble keeping away from the computer :-) Read more →

Heading for London

I have a couple of posts, presentations, projects to finish up before going to AU in a couple of weeks, but this week I am travelling to London to visit DNeg and work with these folks on improving their in-house plug-ins and workfloa. DNeg is The Dark Knight Rises, Man of Steel, The Bourne Legacy, Skyfall, Snow White and the Huntsman, Rush, Battleship, Total Recall maker. I have to admit have seen them all :) That will be a very... Read more →

Happy Bastille Day!

With Kristine we found interesting that Canadian, Americans, and French have all their national day early July. I know different reasons, but still... 'Bastille Day' is the name given in English-speaking countries to the French National Day, which is celebrated on the 14th of July each year. In France, it is formally called 'La Fête Nationale' (The National Celebration) and commonly le quatorze juillet (the fourteenth of July). It commemorates the the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille on... Read more →