Will Eastcott is an entrepreneur and veteran technologist of the games industry with experience at EA, Sony, and Activision. He has been credited in many AAA game franchises such as GTA, Call of Duty and Max Payne. He is best known for co-founding PlayCanvas, the web graphics creation platform. As CEO, he has championed the company's mission to make graphical web app development more accessible and collaborative through open-source technologies and cloud-based tools.
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Greetings, PlayCanvians! It's time to update you on all the cool things we've deployed recently. Let's get started!
On May 13th, San Francisco played host to 3D Web Fest.
It's been another busy week for the PlayCanvas team. Here's a quick run down of the coolness we've deployed for you!
At GDC 2015, ARM and PlayCanvas unveiled the Seemore WebGL demo. If you haven’t seen it yet, it takes WebGL graphics to a whole new level.
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PlayCanvas is passionate about education and many universities throughout the world are already using PlayCanvas to teach videogame development skills. One such school is ENTI, which is attached to the University of Barcelona in Catalonia, Spain.
GDC is here again. What better time to announce our newest demo, built to show the awesome power of the ARM Mali family of GPUs. It's called Seemore, and it showcases the next evolutionary step in PlayCanvas' Physically Based Rendering (PBR) technology.
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If you're working with real-time 3D, chances are that you want your scenes to look physically accurate. For many years, graphics engines have relied on a non-physical approximations without respect to energy conservation and had problems with properly decoupling lighting from the actual material properties. In recent times, huge advances have been made to formulate more accurate shading approaches as well as provide sensible material inputs, which could approximate many types of surfaces without using hacks and tweaks for each scene and lighting conditions. This is a collection of techniques and art-producing approaches often referred to as Physically Based Rendering, or PBR.
Last Thursday, Intel staged one heck of an awesome event in London: 'The Buzz Workshop: Be Mobile'. It was essentially a mini-conference that consisted of talks given by industry experts, a panel and even an indie game pitch event.