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IDF 2008 Taiwan's mega venue - in HDR

By David Stewart (Intel) (177 posts) on November 5, 2008 at 7:02 pm

I was totally blown away by the venue at the 2008 Intel Developer Forum (Taiwan). The keynote sessions were held in an auditorium that would seat 3000 easily. Surprises:

• Just to get into this massive room, you had to go up a floor or two. I just don't expect big spaces like this to be above ground floor.
• The vertical lift between rows. It made the job of finding a seat like climbing a mountain.
• For all of the skill and technology, the slide projectors were not mounted someplace permanent or
  suspended from the ceiling. They were propped up in some of the rows of seating. (Which cut out some of the seats from a view of the stage.) It is amazing that such a high-tech place would not have room for rear projectors or the like.
• For all of the size and humbling scale, the place was actually comfortable to sit in and had great views of the stage. Audio was great and not too loud. I wish the Moscone could say the same!

The photo is a High Dynamic Range (HDR) composite of multiple photos, shot at different exposures and knit together using Photoshop CS3 on my Sony VAIO Centrino Pro processor based laptop.

They really know how to build things big in this neighborhood, where they have the highest building in the world, TAIPEI 101.

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