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SIGGRAPH Asia 2011 Announces Inaugural Symposium on Apps

Jun 28 2011 07:00 AM | Events For Gamers in Siggraph

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 15 September 2011 (23:59 UTC/GMT)

The increased power, portability and ubiquitous connectivity of smart phones and tablets are causing a fundamental shift in how most of humanity interacts with computing. Some mobile devices already deliver the visual computing power of desktop machines of just a few years ago and the rate of mobile silicon innovation is accelerating. Increasingly sophisticated development environments, almost frictionless market access through application stores and widespread device availability are creating new opportunities for a wide range of developers to participate in a global market that will soon be worth more than $35 billion annually.

Symposium on Apps is an inaugural program at SIGGRAPH Asia 2011 in Hong Kong to introduce the opportunities and challenges of mobile applications development to the global graphics community. The program will educate and explore how visual and animation techniques can be used on mobile devices to create compelling end user experiences and to drive the use of advanced graphics capabilities on billions of new devices.

Mobile platforms are democratizing the development of applications and encouraging the active participation of budding young developers and entrepreneurs; for instance, many teenagers can now develop applications for the market. Indeed the mobile lifestyle, the open media computing environment and social networks provide a unified network, a level playing field and an almost friction-free marketing channel to deliver apps to their targeted users. In this ecosystem just about everyone can have a chance to create revenue-generating applications.

Read more about the program at the ACM SIGGRAPH website.