According to Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang, the main reason for creating Nvision was that there was no industry event for the visual computing eco-system. When I asked him about Siggraph, here's what he answered:

"People who go to Siggraph are researchers and we'll still do that. But the end-markets don't go to Siggraph... Some of the hard core programmers will go but there, but there are a lot of visual artists that don't go. Obviously there are a lot of gamers who don't go. A lot of the actual car designers that don't go. But the people who create the tools for the car designers go. We think we need to create an industry event for visual computing that goes far beyond than just internal core.

Siggraph is fabulous... but we need something bigger than that. We also wanted to define the industy. Like Cisco defines the networking industry. So a lot of the companies can say 'Hey, we're in the visual computing business'. And people would understand what that meant", Huang said.

I think that the Siggraph 2008 organisers and the 28K+ artists, research scientists, gaming experts, developers, filmmakers, students, and academics from 87 countries, plus, more than 230 international exhibiting companies would beg to differ with Huang's view. So if you're one of them, please rush to the comments section below!