Dave Burke, engineering director, is now giving a demo of Project Butter, improvements in the OS that include triple buffering.

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In that post, a commenter of ours -- aardWolf -- made the genius suggestion that people do their own "demo" videos of Project Natal.

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One company I spoke with, Atlassian, has an impressively granular system where employees can graduate their project from hackathon demo to a multi-day prototype, which requires sign off from coworkers, to a short-term project, which requires sign off from a manager, to a major project, which requires signoff from an executive.

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Giles Martin said that for him, the project all started with a demo tape he put together, adding percussion to Here Comes the Sun and I Am the Walrus.

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Hiding in the back of the SIGGRAPH Emerging Technologies demo area -- exactly where such a project might belong -- is a dark wood chair that looks anything but innocent.

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Software firm Autodesk is sponsoring some of the aspects of the research and Autodesk Research codesigned the demo app in collaboration with the Knight Lab and the Personal Genome Project.

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Epic Games' first internal initiative to produce an Unreal Engine 3 project on Android is complete, nearly three years after a similar initiative produced the Epic Citadel demo.

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