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I3D 2026 Fireside Chat with Naty Hoffman and Eric Haines

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I3D 2026 Fireside Chat with Naty Hoffman and Eric Haines is the YouTube recording from the ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games at Lucasfilm, San Francisco, 13-15 May 2026. It follows Hoffman's Friday keynote on lessons from game and film graphics.

Hoffman and Haines discuss careers spanning Intel SIMD work, Naughty Dog and Santa Monica Studio engines, Activision and 2K R&D, Lucasfilm virtual production, Meta avatars, and writing such as Real-Time Rendering, with moderator Omer Shapira steering an informal retrospective.

The session suits practitioners wanting industry context rather than paper math. Familiarity with modern shading and studio pipelines is enough.

I3D released the video free after the event alongside other keynote recordings. Hoffman and Haines remain among the most cited educators in real-time rendering, and this joint chat is regarded as a notable archival conversation in the graphics programming community.