SIGGRAPH Asia 2024

12/3 (Tue) ~ 12/6 (Fri), 2024 at Tokyo International Forum in Tokyo, Japan

SIGGRAPH Asia 2024 is an annual international conference focused on computer graphics and interactive techniques. This event attracts technical and creative professionals from around the world who are passionate about research, science, art, animation, gaming, interactivity, education, and emerging technologies.

Sony is proud to be the Creative Visionary Sponsor of SIGGRAPH Asia 2024.
We look forward to connecting with the SIGGRAPH community in person to discuss our research activities and share content creation technologies.

　

- Keynote

Co-Creating Worlds with Game Designers, Animators, and Filmmakers

- Date/Time:
Thursday, December 5, 2024, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM (JST) at Tokyo International Forum Hall C

- Live streaming available: https://youtube.com/live/VPASKrgAQSE

- Speaker:

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  Hiroaki Kitano

  CTO, Sony Group Corporation
  
  

  

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  Nicolas Doucet

  Studio Director, Team ASOBI,
  Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
  
  Originally from France, Nicolas Doucet joined PlayStation in 2004 where he directed games aimed at casual audiences. After moving to Japan in 2011, he founded TEAM ASOBI, the SIE-owned game studio responsible, for the 2024 game “ASTRO BOT” freshly released for PlayStation®5.

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  Ben Aguillon

  DFX Supervisor,
  Sony Pictures Imageworks Inc.
  
  Ben Aguillon brings over 20 years of experience to his role as DFX Supervisor at Sony Pictures Imageworks. His recent credits include the Academy Award-winning Spider-Man™: Into the Spider-Verse, The Mitchells vs. The Machines and Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire.

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  Rey Jarrell

  Pipeline Supervisor and FX Technical Director, Torchlight,
  Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc.
  
  With a background in theater and dance, Rey Jarrell’s first foray into real-time took the form of computer vision-driven immersive installations and interactive technologies. They continue to flow between the technical and creative, using code to empower artist workflows, create visual effects, and architect bespoke tools.

< Overview >
Sony Group CTO Hiroaki Kitano will be joined by creators from across Sony to share how game designers, animators, and filmmakers are embracing technology to build intricate worlds while keeping artists at the center of the creative process. Dr. Kitano will share how technical breakthroughs are opening up new possibilities for storytelling, from PlayStation’s 30-year technical evolution to the convergence of cutting-edge production techniques in film and animation at Sony Pictures Entertainment.

　

- Organizing Committee & Jury

Real-Time Live!
Session Chair - Takahiro Tejima, Polyphony Digital Inc.

Art Gallery
Jury - Asako Tomura, Sony Group Corporation

　

- Sony Exhibition Booth

Visit our booth in the exhibition hall to explore our latest technology firsthand and engage with our team.

- Date/Time
Wednesday, December 4 | 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM (JST)
Thursday, December 5 | 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM (JST)
Friday, December 6 | 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM (JST)

- Location
Tokyo International Forum B2F Hall E (Booth #G-13)

< Overview >
Sony Group companies will showcase technologies that support creativity. The exhibition will feature cutting-edge projects from across Sony, including spatial reality technologies and demonstrations related to PlayStation®VR2.

Exhibit Contents

Towards larger human-size 3D object reproduction with Spatial Reality Display
(Sony Corporation)

< Demonstration >
- Stereoscopic and lifelike video of human with super fine details, on 55inch Spatial Reality Display prototype.
- Filling whole horizontal Field of View with 3x Spatial Reality Displays to experience a natural bird-eye view of Shibuya crossing.

Applications for Spatial Reality Display
(Sony Corporation)

< Demonstration >
Viewtify®: A next-generation medical image (DICOM image) viewer that can instantly synthesize high-quality 3DCG in real time from CT / MRI images by SCIEMENT, Inc.
Presented live on "Real-Time Live!".

Spatial Reality Display Player v2.0: With a new capability for more realistic rendering and improved usability enabled by the latest update (v2.0), please experience real-time 3D visualization with this new version by bringing your own 3D model* to the booth.
*3D model format supported by Spatial Reality Display Player: FBX, STL, GLTF, GLB and OBJ

3D Capture Solution: Related to prior "3D Chakaiki Project" by Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc., 3Dmodels of "Kyogashi" (traditional Kyoto sweets), captured and created with higher precision and resolution by taking advantage of Sony’s technology, are being exhibited on Spatial Reality Display. Please check the meticulous artisanal works to feel the beauty and the essence of Japanese tradition.
Exhibition cooperation: Kyogashi Exhibition 2024 / Yuuhisai Koudoukan Public Interest Incorporated Foundation

Portable Eye-sensing Light Field Display Prototype
(Sony Corporation)

< Demonstration >
Eye-sensing Light Field Display is a display that reproduces realistic three-dimensional objects in space, allowing users to look around and view three-dimensional space from any viewpoint. The realistic expression of "there" that is pursued by the commercialized 15.6 inch and 27 inch Spatial Reality Displays is retained, but it is housed in a small, hand-held device. A prototype that allows users to view realistic three-dimensional images with the naked eye will be exhibited.

360° Transparent Light Field Display: Next-generation 3D display technology for enjoyment by multiple users
(Sony Corporation)

< Demonstration >
The 360° transparent light field display offers a new visual experience with a high sense of reality that makes you feel like "it is right there." By projecting 3D images that can be viewed from all around, 360°, an unlimited number of people can enjoy 3D images from anywhere. In addition, the HOE (Holographic Optical Element) screen allows for both high transparency and brightness of 3D images even in bright lighting environments, creating a floating feeling and providing a high sense of reality.

PlayStation®VR2 Hand Tracking Demo
(Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.)

< Demonstration >
You can experience intuitive operation in a game that uses a low-latency hand tracking function for PS VR2. This feature is available with the latest development kit of PlayStation®5.

Nishijin NCA: a design tool to support Kyoto's traditional weaving industry
(Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc.)

< Display >
In the Nishijin district of Kyoto, artisans put a lot of work in designing patterns to weave kimonos and other garments. We have developed a method called Nishijin NCA (Neural Cellular Automaton), where a neural network assists designers by learning their design choices when modifying part of an image, and applying those choices everywhere else on the image. Nishijin NCA learns from only one original and one modified image; there is no pre-training on existing datasets. Nishijin NCA significantly accelerates the rote tasks of color reduction and shape correction, leaving the artisan free to focus on creating textile patterns that look aesthetically pleasing when woven.

Hacking of Mechanical Properties
(Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc.)

< Demonstration >
By utiilizing "mechanical metamaterials", whose mechanical properties and functions can be turned by their internal shape, we can design and manufacture a wide vairiety of curved surfaces. Exhibition of flexible structures that deform from planar-to-3D curved surfaces due to exotic mechanical phenomena induced by their specific geometory.

Introduction Video : Team ASOBI / Sony Pictures Imageworks / Torchlight

Team ASOBI (Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.)
Team ASOBI is an award-winning PlayStation Studio located in Tokyo, developer of the ASTRO BOT series.

Sony Pictures Imageworks (Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc.)
Sony Pictures Imageworks is an award-winning visual effects and animation studio known for photoreal live-action visual effects, dynamic creature and character animation and full-CG features. Having created visually stunning images for more than 100 live-action and animated productions over its 30-year history the studio is also a leader in technology, developing software and tools that have helped solve industry-wide challenges and deliver spectacular visuals to the big screen.

Torchlight (Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc.)
Torchlight is a groundbreaking advanced visualization facility for creativity that allows filmmakers to explore, play, and develop their vision within a virtual environment utilizing the latest advanced technologies.

　

- Technical Programs at SIGGRAPH Asia 2024

- Recruiting Information

We look forward to working with highly motivated individuals to fill the world with emotion and to pioneer future innovation through dreams and curiosity. If interested, please access to our career site and/or consider visiting the Sony Information Desk at Sony booth #G-13 at the SIGGRAPH Asia 2024 exhibition hall (Hall E) to know more about Sony Group.

Career Site
https://www.sony.com/en/SonyInfo/Careers/japan/