Excalibur (XBR) public unveiling took place on January 27th, 2010 via 3 webinars. Over 450 people joined us to review how we plan to go about the restructuring of 3ds Max and tackling some core issues to ensure that 3ds Max remains the workhorse of the industry for a long time to come. Some statistics:

  • 93% of attendees said the presentation was good or excellent
  • 88% said that the XBR initiative was important, 86% said that we are tackling the core issues that they think exist
  • Attendees were asked to pick one thing for us to focus on, 30% gave equal weight to Stability and Performance, 18% said Features and 16% said Usability, 9% said Interop
  • XBR Graphics was the most important as 42% said we should focus on that if they had to pick one thing; new UI was second at 19% followed by Diet, Doc views and Simulation at around 11-14%
  • Ratings by core area (1-not useful, 4-excellent) shows that everything rates between a “Definitely useful” and a “Excellent! That will make a big difference for me”
    • XBR Graphics: 3.6
    • XBR Docs: 3.3
    • XBR Simulation: 3.3
    • XBR Diet: 3.2
    • XBR UI: 3.2
    • XBR Data: 3.1

Public link to view one of the sessions: http://adinc.na4.acrobat.com/p23782361/

Thanks to all of you that joined the webinars and gave us some of your time to discuss the future. We learned a lot, I hope you did too.