I think I have seen a presentation of their rendering tech at the Softimage
Ubertage 2010.
What was cool was that they could raytrace NURBS directly without having to
tesselate first. Super smooth
and artefact-free reflections all the time. It was quite fast too.
Their presentation was a bit in vain though, as the market they seem to be
catering too is mostly
the product design and automotive industry, and in addition right after their
talk, Marcos and Borja would enter the stage and give us a presentation of
Arnold and SiToA, and nobody ever thought of PIVR again.
I had never heard of them before.
If you look at the new features of v6, they now support animation and editing
them. Of course this is far from what Softimage users expect from an animation
package but it is interesting nonetheless.
I guess their biggest competitor around the corner will be TeamUp!
Cheers,
MAC
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[mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Ben Houston
Sent: 9 janvier 2013 09:07
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
Subject: Re: Autodesk acquires Pi-VR
I notice though that this is likely more related to their engineering side of
their business. Although I keep seeing VRED advertisements in 3D World, I've
never heard of anyone using it in visual effects production.
-ben
On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 8:52 AM, Marc-Andre Carbonneau
marc-andre.carbonn...@ubisoft.com wrote:
Interesting move on the part of Autodesk.
http://www.pi-vr.de/en/company/news/news-detail/article/autodesk-acqui
res-pi-vr.html
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