The GDC 2015 hype Thread

Mr_SquarePeg · February 20, 2015, 5:22am

What is thread about?

thread is about GDC 2015 and all of the awesome tech, hardware, companies, and people that is confirmed or speculated to be there.

Disclaimer these are arranged in no particular order.

All that said lets the get the proverbial ball rolling.

Voxel Farm

Status - Confirmed

When - March 4th - 6th 2015

Where - Booth #2320

What - They will be showing off Voxel Farm and giving details on their upcoming Creator, Indie and Pro licenses.

Oculus -

Status - Confirmed

When - March 2nd - 6th 2015

Where - In between the Unreal Engine and Crytek Booths.

What - Showing off the Oculus Rift.

Crytek

Status - Confirmed

When - March 4th - 6th

Where - Booth #1424

What - Showing off Cryengine for Android and VR.

Epic Games

Status - Confirmed

When - March 4th - 6th

Where - Booth #1024

What - Showing off Unreal Engine 4 and Giving talks on OpenGL next

Valve Software

Status - Confirmed

When - March 2nd - 6th

Where - Booth #1902 and #2002

What - Promoting Steam OS, Steam Machines, Giving talks about OpenGL next, Physics, and VR.

Agog Labs

Status - Confirmed

When - March 4th - 6th

Where - Booth #141

What - Promoting SkookumScript for UE4 and other platforms.

Popcorn FX

Status - Confirmed

When - 4th - 6th

Where - Booth #631 (Near IGF)

What - Promoting Popcorn FX for UE4 and other platforms.

Technical illusions Inc.

Status - Confirmed (Reached out for more info)

When - ?

Where - ?

What - Showing off CastAR their AR Glasses that they kickstarted back in 2013

Intel

Status - Confirmed

When - March 2nd - 5th

Where - ?

What - Tech Talks, Games Showcase and Tech Labs

Nvidia

Status - Confirmed

When - 2nd - 6th

Where - Next to the Unreal Booth

What - Showing off Nvidia GRID, Nvidia Shield, DirectX 12, and GeForce.

Khronos Group

When - March 5th

Where - Various (See Valve Software and Epic Games Booths)

What - OpenGL Next

Mixamo

When - ? (Reached out for more info)

Where - Booth #310

What - Showing off Mixamo Autorigger, Mixamo Fuse and other cool products.

Allegorithmic

When - 4th - 6th

Where - Booth #212

What - Showing off Substance Designer 5 and Substance Painter.

People from the Unreal Community going to GDC 2015.

Unreal Engine games at GDC 2015

Do you know of any other awesome companies, people, or tech going to GDC 2015? Let me know so I can Update list!

EDIT: Added Agog Labs Inc.

EDIT: Added PopcornFX

EDIT: Added Technical Illusions Inc.

EDIT: Updated Popcorn FX entry

EDIT: Added Intel and Nvida

EDIT: Added the Khronos Group

EDIT: Added Mixamo and Allegorithmic

Allar · February 20, 2015, 5:37am

PopcornFX.

Mr_SquarePeg · February 20, 2015, 5:52am

Added Popcorn FX - I reached out to them via twitter for more details

Allar · February 20, 2015, 6:49am

Nvidia, right next to Epic. Intel.

Mr_SquarePeg · February 20, 2015, 7:07am

Added Nvidia and Intel.

anonymous_user_b9fdc589 · February 20, 2015, 8:41am

You can add Allegorithmic.
We will showcase our new version of Substance Designer and Substance Painter, alongside all our integrations which include UE4. (I will be there by the way !)

FrankieV · February 20, 2015, 8:47am

Man wish I could go.

I request the first ever Epic Plaid Count (EPC).

The mission.

Count every Epic employee that shows up in Plaid and for everyone you find you have to take a shot.

Luos · February 20, 2015, 3:25pm

as for awesome people coming to gdc: Community Members at GDC - Unreal Engine

Mr_SquarePeg · February 20, 2015, 6:42pm

Just got up for the day. Now back to work on thread.

Already got you guys I should probably move the link near the top

What booth and what days will you guys be there?

Luos · February 20, 2015, 10:04pm

Ooh, imma high 5 you then

anonymous_user_b9fdc589 · February 21, 2015, 3:25pm

We will be there from 4, 5 to 6 march. Our booth number is 212.

Yeah !

Demolition_Man · February 21, 2015, 4:27pm

Mixamo is going to be there. I believe that Tyler, Jeanette and Chantel will be operating the booth during the show. They are across from Allegorithmic in Booth 310 if I remember correctly. I’ve been told that they will have some interesting things to show off at GDC.

Mr_SquarePeg · February 21, 2015, 7:11pm

Awesome! Looking forward to seeing Mixamo at GDC. I added them to the list.

Added to the list

Moss · February 21, 2015, 8:19pm

I would love to be there but it’s a trip not all of us can do

anonymous_user_0df12f74 · February 21, 2015, 10:38pm

Have a quick look here if you want to see all of the companies at GDC, is a floor plan showing where each booth will be. is the main (south hall) exhibit floor, the other one is meant for GDC Play / Career Center etc.

is the floor that matters:
http://www.gdconf.com/pdf/floorplans/2015/GDC_2015_SouthHall.pdf

Wish I could have joined you guys there, would have been a lot of fun! Maybe next year

sarfios · February 22, 2015, 4:06pm

Perception Neuron are going as well! $500 000+ successfully funded kickstarter campaign focused on MoCap and VR

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1663270989/project-perception-neuron/posts

Steve_T · February 22, 2015, 4:19pm

is the 'Murican GDC?

anonymous_user_0df12f74 · February 22, 2015, 4:24pm

Yes is the actual GDC in San Francisco. The one in Cologne, Germany is GDC Europe. So you got that a little backwards…

Mr_SquarePeg · February 23, 2015, 5:39am

Hey thanks for the info

I have been keeping my eye on Priovr and other mocap solutions

That said - I will look into

anonymous_user_b0f27895 · February 23, 2015, 6:37am

Can we watch live stream of GDC?