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  • yeeeeman - Monday, March 2, 2020 - link

    What is the problem of doing it online? Why spend tons of money of moving lots of people to a place to write basically the same things on different web sites?
  • limitedaccess - Monday, March 2, 2020 - link

    Products can be launched at conferences and the press/media can have access to conferences. The above is not the only function nor even primary reason for conferences in general.

    Nvidia's keynote speech with the speculated product launch is only a scheduled 2 hours of a planned 5 day conference. You can see the schedule of all the other activities that form the bulk of - https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/gtc/session-catalog-d...
  • Yojimbo - Monday, March 2, 2020 - link

    GTC is a conference. People can meet other people at a conference. They can hear and have conversations. They can make personal connections. Interacting with an actual audience is much more exhilarating and pleasing than watching an online feed and typing in a scrolling chat. There can be workshops where people get hands on explanations. There is an opportunity for interest in an upcoming presentation to spread by word of mouth. People overall will be more focused and immersed by the environment. There are many things that can be done and communicated more effectively in person than on a web site or through a video lecture.
  • jordanclock - Monday, March 2, 2020 - link

    I completely agree. I've been to a few conferences and the most significant sources of value to me were not the talks that ended up on YouTube a week later but from interacting with other industry professionals, businesses and workshops.
  • PeachNCream - Monday, March 2, 2020 - link

    We may be able to emulate some of the lost interpersonal interaction via various smaller meetings using online tools. There will still be a loss of spontaneous conversational benefits because of the need to schedule web conferences after the fact, but given COVID-19, it is not worth the risks right now.

    On top of that convention crud has been a thing for as long as we have been gathering in large, close-proximity groups so perhaps there are other ways of sharing information that we can develop or even cultural shifts that mitigate the loss of face-to-face interaction to make up some of the difference.
  • AshlayW - Monday, March 2, 2020 - link

    Just because you live in your mum's basement, doesn't mean everyone else has to.
  • Threska - Monday, March 2, 2020 - link

    Multilevel Universal Meeting Sensorama (MUMS) technology will be the next big thing.
  • Threska - Monday, March 2, 2020 - link

    The Matrix had it right.
  • drexnx - Monday, March 2, 2020 - link

    looks like this really puts the kibosh on the "Ampere at GTC" rumors that had been floating around
  • p1esk - Monday, March 2, 2020 - link

    Pretty sure Ampere is going to be announced. Hopefully we'll also take a peek at Hopper.
  • drexnx - Monday, March 2, 2020 - link

    without Jensen on stage, in jacket? I have serious doubts.
  • p1esk - Monday, March 2, 2020 - link

    He might still be talking from a stage, and in his jacket. Nothing would change for those who planned to stream the keynote, and those are the vast majority of his audience.
  • Yojimbo - Tuesday, March 3, 2020 - link

    Well they aren't going to delay a product introduction indefinitely because they can't get an audience together because of the virus. So if they were planning on announcing Ampere before, I am sure they will still do it. It'll be interesting to see what form they choose for the keynote. Can Jensen present with the same amount of energy without a live audience? Is he gonna be on a stage running around or will he be standing in a smaller room or even seated? One thing is for sure, he's gonna be wearing the jacket.
  • A5 - Tuesday, March 3, 2020 - link

    It will get announced some time in Q2 because that’s when they’ll start making money from it. They don’t have any other real opportunity to do so.
  • dk404 - Sunday, March 8, 2020 - link

    So the article says "SARS-CoV-2", what an irony.

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