I too have an interest in real-time rendering, but I had no idea that this was the nature of academic research vs industry research. I'm applying to become a student volunteer at this year's SIGGRAPH hoping to get more insight in the field. I guess most if not all the research will be geared towards offline techniques? It will be awesome nonetheless! *EDIT* I take that back, SIGGRAPH has featured quite a bit of real-time work.

I too have an interest in real-time rendering, but I had no idea that this was the nature of academic research vs industry research. I'm applying to become a student volunteer at this year's SIGGRAPH hoping to get more insight in the field. I guess most if not all the research will be geared towards offline techniques? It will be awesome nonetheless!