Autodesk builds on cloud-based platforms at event

摘要

A newcomer to Autodesk University might have thought they walked into a techno music concert at the event's opening festivities. A disc jockey playing dance music at concert-level volumes welcomed attendees to the software giant's Nov. 15-17, 2016, user conference at the Venetian casino-resort on the Las Vegas Strip. But since last year's event opened with "Star Wars" Storm- troopers and dancers looked like they had come from a Vegas Cirque de Soleil show, longtime attendees may not have raised an eyebrow. Autodesk University-"AU" as the San Rafael, California-based company prefers to call it-is an event on a much larger scale than most similar events. Its trade show has featured robotic bartenders and full-scale model cars made by 3-D printers and at times resembles a high-end video game arcade with virtu- al-reality software demonstrations.