Upcoming Events
On January 14, 2026, at 8:00 pm Eastern, the ACM SIGGRAPH Pioneers will present the next in our year-round series of panels on topics of importance to the computer graphics and interactive techniques communities.
Panelists have been selected to provide a diverse overview on how computer graphics, 3D printing, AR, VR and AI have evolved and are being used today in the medical profession. Topics vary from the earliest work in molecular visualization to creating animation for surgical techniques for Abbot, Medtronic, and Johnson & Johnson using software like Maya, ZBrush, V-Ray and Unreal, to the 3D design and manufacture of prosthetic limbs, to developing video games for physical therapy, interactive training for nurses, and AI-powered immersive platforms and technical standards for XR in healthcare.
The Panel is open to all ACM/SIGGRAPH Pioneers and their associates, you can register at this zoom link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/
The Ethics of AI + XR: An Evening with Alvin Wang Graylin
As narrated by the tagline of the last AWE Conference in Long Beach, CA, and since followed up by the daily news stories about the future of Hollywood and public social media AI usage and what's real and what's not, the AI+XR Medium and it's fall out is now here.
Join us for a Presentation and Discussion with Alvin Wang Graylin, Author of "Our Next Realty" and the current Chairman of the Virtual World Society. With over 35 years in AI and Immersive technologies and as the past Global Vice President of HTC, Alvin is a perfect guide to take us on a discussion into AI and XR and the ethical larger issues that we now face.
Alvin has been writing and lecturing globally about the civic and cultural challenges we face with a possible "Age of Abundance" due to the mixing of AI and XR arriving forming a new medium with new creative and business possibilities. He's assembled a presentation using elements of his most current talks and writings that focus on the ethical challenges and requirements we all will face as these powerful mediums become mainstream and we face our choices of how to benefit or not from their usage.
They'll be plenty of Q and A time for audience discussion and this will be the LA ACM SIGGRAPH Meeting of 2026 on AI that you wont want to miss!
Hosted and moderated by XR/media veteran and LA ACM SIGGRAPH Vice Chair, Larry Rosenthal.
