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This SIGGRAPH Frontiers Workshop brought together esports developers and competitive esports athletes for an expert panel on esports rendering needs. The workshop explored how industry practitioners design rendering pipelines and how competitive players perceive and interact with visual information …

This workshop examined whether SIGGRAPH should pivot since “esports players turn off many of the rendering techniques” because they fail to improve competitive performance. The agenda covered alternatives to photorealism and trading off temporal and visual accuracy. Organizers aimed to …

Graphics research has historically prioritized photorealism, yet competitive players routinely disable these features to maximize frame rates. This workshop explored how the computer graphics community can better support the expert performance esports athletes seek, tackling technical hurdles across …

This SIGGRAPH panel presented esports as a driving problem in computer graphics — challenging the field’s long-standing focus on photorealism and opening new directions in performance-driven rendering, human perception, and interactive systems.

The panel gathered esports experts in …