Well it's day 2 at GDC 2010. The first day went well. Maya 2011 is getting great feedback. Aside from that I had a brief chance to walk around the expo floor. The coolest thing I saw was this giant virtual track ball thing...

You step inside, grab a weapon, strap on a head mounted display, then start walking around shooting aliens. It looked pretty fun but I didn't try it. I'm thinking it might be a little disorienting.

So... Friday at 2:30 pm PST / 5:30 pm EST, I'm going to be doing a live webcast presentation of some of the other new Maya 2011 features. There will be other presentations as well of Maya, Max, Motion Builder, Mudbox, etc... all day long.  BTW - The new Mudbox features are killer!! The vector displacement stuff is -super- cool.  You can come check it all out here...

http://area.autodesk.com/gdc2010

Otherwise here is the second installment of my "What's new in Maya 2011" demo series. The new Viewport 2.0 is an optional viewport renderer that is designed for performance. It allows you to navigate large, dense scenes (e.g.  game levels) that you simply couldn't before.  Side note... The frame rates I show in the video are actually deceiving... I realized after the fact that the screen recording software was slowing me down... and the fact that I was on a laptop. I've been getting almost twice the frame rate that you see here on a workstation with a high-end graphics card.

Quick plug...  thank you A2M - Artificial Mind and Movement, for providing the content from their hit game Wet for this demo.