Thanks for the info, someday i'll get around to digging into hlsl enough to actually understand...
It's already old news but I just came across it. Boy, there are many acquisitions lately!!
Some RealViz products will be discontinued. One of them is Matchmover of which we have a license… 
I guess if it gets integrated into 3ds max, we won't mind at the end.
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Autodesk intends to develop and sell REALVIZ’s Stitcher Unlimited, Stitcher Express, ImageModeler and Movimento software as standalone products. Matchmover, Retimer and VTour will no longer be available as standalone products; core technology from these REALVIZ products will be integrated into future versions of Autodesk’s existing products, enabling customers to bring the real world into design environments.
The following REALVIZ offerings have been discontinued: Stitcher Pro, Stitcher Unlimited DS, StoryViz, and hardware and software product bundles. Education versions of ImageModeler and Stitcher continue to be available. Student versions of ImageModeler and Stitcher are no longer available.
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Also take note of the part I highlighted. This probably means image-based modeling/lightning and pathfinding+traffic modules for Max, Maya etc.
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where it's easy to build 3D environments or virtual sets by stitching pictures together or derive 3D models very quickly from set photos using image-based modeling. Games now require a lot of facial animation. Animators can rough out facial animations using a webcam and optical motion capture.
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We have plans to use these technologies across a wide spectrum of industries… Every country in the world is starting to model their cities in 3D, and the Kynapse technology offers some very relevant potential for these applications. The path-finding and AI technology can be used to do simulations of crowds inside of buildings or stadiums or to model and simulate car traffic in digital models of cities.
[...] in the same house. Autodesk keeps repeating about a secret plan for gaming …. talked about it here, too. So now we will get a mega-dcc-solution-suite? … [...]
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