The Future of Rendering - Jules Urbach

[@imagesh1]

I was fortunate to attend this talk at NAB last month! Great meeting Jules in person, along with Rod Roddenberry and the Lytro folks!

[@TheThebeep]

I think Otoy should incorporate new tagline for Octane Render - "To boldly go where no render engine has gone before" ;)

[@midphase]

...eventually....4-5 years later than they originally stated....by which point everyone else has been doing it for years.

[@tripledad2004]

I think awesome technilogy comes to us in the near future

[@StalkedByLosers]

Seeing the potential of star trek flushed down the toilet... RIP Star Trek 🙏 😔

[@jarabito001]

awesome!!

[@BlackStudiosXR]

Otoy, the company that tries to do everything. Tell me a movie that have been rendered in octane.

[@sabatheus]

16 GPUs per panel! :O

[@ilikeithardcoretv3367]

free cloud rendering.. when can we use it

[@sammedia3d]

So how would you solve the ability to interact with objects inside the Holodeck just like they can in ST

[@brettcameratraveler]

Thats either feedback gloves or - eventually - a neural implant.

[@tiagotiagot]

Advanced sonic levitation would possibly be a potential approach; but I'm not sure we will ever get it strong and detailed enough you could hang from a branch in the forest that could hold your weight and have detailed enough texture to feel like wood against your skin We might not have the technology for the tactile/haptics yet. Though, I guess to some extent, if you're wearing a VR headset or something of the sort to hide the trickery behind smoke and mirrors; it wouldn't be completely out of the realms of possibility to have a bunch of robotic arms with micropins piston arrays for texturing and such, that swipe around you to apply any contact required dodging your body as needed. Making solid holograms will likely require technology we have not inventented yet, and possibily even physics we have not discovered yet. And there's also the issue of bending light, which would be essential unless you're wearing something like a VR glasses or whatever; a screen behind your hand can't make light appear in front of your hand. Perhaps if sonic levitation gets advanced enough it might be doable with billions of miror-like nano-glitter particles floated at right spot and the right time; but even if we had the physical side of the tech existed already, I don't think we would have the computing power right now too coordinate the airflow at such granularity level as to essentially assemble a screen out of shiny dust and bounced laser lights suspended in air (actually, now I'm thinking about it, I remember seeing a prototype like that in a video some time ago; IIRC the whole device was about the size of a shoe, and it could only do line-based drawings smaller than your finger-nail; wasn't the full thing though, it just lit dust particles that would look bright from all directions and blend with the light of other particles, so only ghost images, nothing that you could hide behind even if it was made big enough; and there was also a more dangerous example that instead of manipulating dust with sound, it skipped that step altogether and just focused a dangerously strong laser in the air to the point of creating tiny plasma dots you would not wanna touch or even look too close; this one could draw biggger stuff, but still just points of light, seethru, and because the light came not from directly fromt he laser but from exploding the air, there was not even control over color)

[@justsomeguy1074]

Otoy wants to know their place in AI. Is there one?

[@vkstudio6722]

I have been pressing 'SIGN IN" button on otoy offpage for a week already, getting 'Unable to connect' message. Is otoy dead?

[@brettcameratraveler]

16 GPUs...per panel...In 5 years? Everywhere?

[@TDVL]

Nvidia doubles GPU speed every 2 years, add some nifty AI acceleration and probably one per panel can do it by then.

[@brettcameratraveler]

@TDVL If anyone can do it, it's OTOY and who they choose to partner with. Nevertheless we are still only talking about 1 panel, which is often only 19" x 19". To scale that up to an entire 4 walled room is surprisingly high.

[@RT-qi7rn]

Does anyone think this actually looks good?

[@BrnoBastos]

i dont think so

[@kallegutta4849]

what a load of crap - here is the guy that spends millions of dollars to protect his software and now he is trying to get some sort of mitigation in place with the only free 3d software on earth - how pathetic

[@M.FranckDaniel]

then build your own and show us the difference.