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A collision detection talk from 2001, i love it! If you want to get an HTML5/WebGL game up and running, the solutions used in 3D games over a decade ago are invaluable.
To be fair, collision detection isn't something that dates as quickly as say, rendering. There are plenty of modern games that use collision techniques that were used in realtime games in the 80s. Many AAA next-gen games are probably using techniques that aren't too far off from this talk for character collision.
Ugh... It doesn't matter if these techniques are "probably" still in use or not, people don't talk about them anymore. Where else are you going to hear about using a special BSP tree just for the Minkowski Sums to detect player collision with level geometry? These days talks about collision detection default to generic physics engine solutions. Presentations like these are gems.
