Together with realtime systems, infrared sensors, video cameras and motion sensitive floor pads they delivered a unique performance every evening. This playful contact represents the change that has taken place in the area of computer graphics during a quarter of a century. In the 80's the conference already experienced a significantly higher interest. Since then between twenty and thirty thousand visitors have attended every year to gather information about the newest developments and trends in computer graphics. One reason for this was certainly the vicinity to the film studios.
Children growing up today see computers as something quite ordinary.
The SigKIDs initiative that presented computer graphics applications from kids and for kids underlined this development. During a live connection students of a Californian school had the chance to meet and interact with people at the convention center in Orlando via the Web in a virtual 3D space. Besides the demonstrated online communities and education across spatial boundaries NTT Soft, a subsidiary of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, sees the general area of operation for their Web software in online games, scientific visualization and e-commerce. The company uses two libraries for the communication between the clients and the server cluster. Movement and interaction of the users happen on the client side per mouse-click.