From: "Leslie E. Schlecht" Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds Subject: CONF: IEEE 1996 Virtual Reality Annual International Symposium Date: 2 Mar 1996 00:21:18 GMT Organization: NAS/NASA Ames Research Center Message-ID: <4h849u$d17@cnn.nas.nasa.gov> From: "Leslie E. Schlecht" ** VRAIS '96 ** IEEE Virtual Reality Annual International Symposium March 30 - April 3, 1996 Santa Clara Marriott Santa Clara, California, USA (San Francisco Bay Area) Sponsored by The IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Computer Graphics The Virtual Reality Technology Committee of the IEEE Neural Networks Council ************************ EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MARCH 8, 1996 ! ************************ ** PROGRAM INFORMATION ** REGISTRATION AND HOUSING FORMS ** ** PAPERS ** PANELS ** TUTORIALS ** EXHIBITS ** A formatted WWW version of the advance program is available at http://www.eece.unm.edu/eece/conf/vrais ************************ ==== INVITATION FROM THE GENERAL CHAIR ==== I invite you to take part in the IEEE 1996 Virtual Reality Annual International Symposium (VRAIS '96), which will mark the third entry in the VRAIS series. Taking place in the heart of Silicon Valley in the San Francisco Bay Area, VRAIS '96 promises to be the premiere venue in 1996 for the presentation of research and development in virtual reality. Over the last two years, the field of virtual reality has seen something of a maturation. We are no longer the "hot hype" field (that distinction now belongs to the World Wide Web), and serious applications of virtual reality are appearing. Reflecting this trend, one of the major themes of VRAIS 96 is applications, beginning with the keynote presentation on the impact of virtual reality on the industrial enterprise. We have a major emphasis on the application of virtual reality to medicine, with an invited talk, an invited panel, a technical paper session and a tutorial. There are several application areas spread throughout the technical program. Virtual reality is still an unsolved problem, however. We continue to be dogged by hardware limitations, new and difficult software requirements, and the mysteries of how humans operate in VR. While great progress has been made, there is still a great deal of research to be done. Some of the technical issues that need to be resolved are introduced in the tutorials presented on Saturday and Sunday. The research itself is directly addressed in the technical sessions on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. There are 30 high-quality, peer-reviewed papers in these sessions (chosen out of 84 submissions), providing a comprehensive survey of ongoing work. In order to better communicate this work, this year the video proceedings are included in the registration package. In the evening we have several events. After the CyberEdge Journal product of the year award on Monday night, we have a dinner panel on new horizons in virtual reality. Tuesday night we will have an informal panel discussing the various government studies that have examined research goals and priorities in virtual reality. After this panel we will all go to Silicon Graphics to view their new InfiniteReality graphics engine in action! visions of how the difficult problems of VR can be addressed. Tuesday night we will have an informal session discussing the various government studies that have examined research goals and priorities in virtual reality. If you are interested virtual reality, you will find this conference a rewarding experience. I look forward to seeing all of you in March! Steve Bryson VRAIS 96 General Chair ==== PROGRAM SUMMARY ==== ======== Saturday, March 30 TUTORIALS (see below for tutorial descriptions): ----8:30am-5:00pm: 1A: User Interface Issues for Virtual Systems 1B: Participants and Virtual Humans in VR ----8:30am-12:00pm: 1C: Fundamentals of Optics in Head Mounted Displays ----1:30pm-5:00pm 1D: Psychophysics and Technology of Virtual Acoustic Displays ======== Sunday, March 31 TUTORIALS (see below for tutorial descriptions): ----8:30am-5:00pm: 2A: Introduction to Haptic Simulation 2B: Interactive Visualization of Supercomputer Simulations ----8:30am-12:00pm: 2C: VR in Medicine Today ----1:30pm-5:00pm: 2D: The Conversational Computer: Integrating Multimodal Input Into Virtual Environments ======== Monday, April 1 ---- 8:45 - 9:00: Welcome ---- 9:00 - 10:00: Keynote Address "The Impact of Virtual Reality on the Industrial Enterprise" Jim Thomas, Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratory ---- 10:15 - 12:00: Invited Panel Virtual Reality in Medicine Moderator: Richard Satava, ARPA Frederick P. Brooks, Jr., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill William Lorensen, General Electric Joseph M. Rosen, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center ---- 12:00 - 1:30: Lunch (on your own) ---- 1:30 - 3:00: Augmented Reality/Telepresence "Immersive Video" Saied Moezzi, Arun Katkere, Don Kuramura and Ramesh Jain, University of California, San Diego "Affine Object Representations for Calibration-Free Augmented Reality" Kiriakos Kutulakos and James Vallino, University of Rochester "Registering Perspective Contours with 3-D Objects Without Correspondence Using Orthogonal Polynomials" Siu-Leong Iu, Rockwell Science Center ---- 3:30 - 5:30: Haptics "What You Can See is What You Can Feel - Development of Visual/Haptic Interface to Virtual Environment" Yasuyoshi Yokokohji, Ralph Hollis, and Takeo Kanade, Carnegie Mellon University "Human Performance Using the Rutgers Master II Force Feedback Interface" Lionel Fabiani, Laboratoire de Robotique de Paris Grigore Burdea, Noshir Langrana and Daniel Gomez, Rutgers University "Virtual Perambulator: A Novel Interface Device for Locomotion in Virtual Environment" Hiroo Iwata and Takashi Fujii, University of Tsukuba "Multisensory Data Sensualization Based on Human Perception" Tetsuro Ogi, Mitsubishi Research Institute Michitaka Hirose, University of Tokyo ---- 7:00 - 10:00: Dinner Banquet ---- 7:30 -8:30 CyberEdge Journal Product of the Year Award ---- 8:30 - 9:30: Dinner panel: New Horizons in Virtual Reality Mark Bolas, Fake Space Labs, Inc. Steve Bryson, MRJ/NASA Ames Research Center Steve Feiner, Columbia University Scott Fisher, Telepresence Research, Inc. Henry Fuchs, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Sharon Stansfield, Sandia National Labs Mike Zyda, Naval Postgraduate School --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======== Tuesday, April 2 ---- 9:00 - 10:00: Invited Talk "Virtual Reality and Medicine - From Training Systems to Performance Machines" Joseph M. Rosen, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center ---- 10:30 - 12:00: Medicine "Multisensory Platform for Surgical Simulation" Roni Yagel, Yair Kurzion, Scott King, Ohio State University Don Stredney, Gregory Wiet, Dennis Sessanna, The Ohio Supercomputer Center Petra Schmalbrock, The Ohio State University Hospitals Louis Rosenberg, Immersion Corporation "Distributed Virtual Environment for Intravascular Tele-surgery Using Multimedia Tele-communication" Fumihito Arai, Mitsutaka Tanimoto, Toshio Fukuda, Koji Shimojima, Hideo Matsura, and Makoto Negoro, Nagoya University "A Virtual Airplane for Fear of Flying Therapy" Larry Hodges, Barbara Rothbaum, Benjamin Watson, G. Drew Kessler, and Dan Opdyke, Georgia Institute of Technology ---- 12:00 - 1:30: Lunch (on your own) ---- 1:30 - 3:00: Modeling and Rendering "Exploiting Frame to Frame Coherence in a Virtual Reality System" Gernot Schaufler, Johannes Kepler Universitat "Gaze Directed Adaptive Rendering for Interacting with Virtual Space" Toshikazu Ohshima, Hiroyuki Yamamoto, and Hideyuki Tamura, Canon, Inc. "Generalized Surface and Volume Decimation for Unstructured Tessellated Domains" Kevin Renze and James Oliver, Iowa State University ---- 3:30 - 5:30: Evaluation/Verification "Validation and Verification of Virtual Environment Training Systems" David Zeltzer and Nicholas Pioch, MIT "Evaluation of an Air-to-air Combat Debriefing System Using a Head-Mounted Display" Philip Amburn, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill William Marshak, SYTRONICS, Inc. "Virtual Reality System Effects on Size-Distance Judgments in a Virtual Environment" Robert Eggleston, Armstrong Laboratory, WPAFB William Janson and Kenneth Aldrich, Logicon Technical Services "Haptic Specification of Environmental Events: Implications for the Design of Adaptive Virtual Interfaces" Bart Brickmann, Lawrence Hettinger, Merry Roe, and Liem Lu, Logicon Technical Services, Inc. Daniel Repperger and Michael Hass, Armstrong Laboratory, WPAFB ---- 7:00 - 8:00: Panel: Government Studies on Virtual Reality Michael J. Zyda, Naval Postgraduate School Steve Bryson, MRJ/NASA Ames Research Center ---- 8:00 - 11:00: Silicon Graphics' 60 Hertz, 30 Hurts Party (bus tickets purchased separately) Silicon Graphics will sponsor a demonstration of the recently unveiled Onyx InfiniteReality driving an immersive, interactive, 150-degree FOV, SEOS projection system. This event will take place at the SGI Advanced Systems Division Innovation Center at the SGI campus in Mountain View. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======== Wednesday April 3 1996 ---- 8:30 - 10:00: Behavior "Decision Networks for Integrating the Behaviors of Virtual Agents and Avatars" Thomas Trias, Sonu Chopra, Barry Reich, Michael Moore, Norman Badler, Bonnie Webber, and Christopher Geib, University of Pennsylvania "An Example of the Construction of Virtual Table Tennis" Anthony Steed and Mel Slater, Queen Mary and Westfield College "Adding Intelligence to the Interface" M. Billinghurst and J. Savage, University of Washington ---- 10:30 - 12:00: Interaction "Closed Form and Geometric Algorithms for Real-Time Control of an Avatar" Sudhanshu Semwal, Ron Hightower, and Sharon Stansfield, Sandia National Laboratories "Inertial Head-Tracker Sensor Fusion by a Complementary Separate-Bias Kalman Filter" Eric Foxlin, MIT "Representative Spherical Plane Method and Composition of Object Manipulation Methods" Ryugo Kijima and Michitaka Hirose, University of Tokyo ---- 12:00 - 1:30: Lunch (on your own) ---- 1:30 - 3:00: Distribution/Networks "Locales and Beacons: Precise and Efficient Support for Large Multi-User Virtual Environments" John Barrus and Richard Waters, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories "A Network Communication Protocol for Distributed Virtual Environment Systems" G. Drew Kessler and Larry Hodges, Georgia Institute of Technology "Network Topologies for Scalable Multi-User Virtual Environments" Thomas Funkhouser, AT&T Bell Laboratories ---- 3:30 - 5:30: Visualization "Interactive Information Visualization for Exploratory Intelligence Data Analysis" John Risch, Richard May, and James Thomas, Pacific Northwest Laboratory "The Virtual Annotation System" Reid Harmon, Walter Patterson, William Ribarsky, and Jay Bolter, Georgia Institute of Technology "ScienceSpace: Virtual Realities for Learning Complex and Abstract Scientific Concepts" Chris Dede, Marilyn Salzman, George Mason University R. Bowen Loftin, NASA/JSC "Multi-Perspective Collaborative Design in Persistent Networked Virtual Environments" Jason Leigh, Andrew Johnson, Christina Vasilakis, and Thomas DeFanti, University of Illinois at Chicago -------------------------------------------------------------- ==== GENERAL INFORMATION ==== ==== LOCATION AND ACCOMMODATIONS ==== ** DEADLINE FOR HOTEL RESERVATIONS: March 8, 1996 ** ==== TRANSPORTATION FROM THE AIRPORT ==== The Marriott provides complimentary shuttle service to and from San Jose airport for guests of the hotel every 30 minutes. You may also request a shuttle pick-up at the courtesy phone located in the Baggage Claim area. Taxi fare runs between $8 and $10. ==== EXHIBITS ==== There will be an exhibits area at VRAIS '96. Vendors and publishers will be displaying the latest technology in Virtual Reality. Exhibits are open to all conference participants. For exhibit information, contact: Henry Sowizral Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation 2550 Garcia Ave, MS UMPK14-202 Mountain View, CA 94043-1100 Email: henry.sowizral@eng.sun.com Phone: (415) 786-6579 ==== FOR MORE INFORMATION === Please contact the VRAIS '96 Symposium office if you have questions or require further information about any aspect of the conference. IEEE VRAIS '96 P.O. Box 339 Moffett Field, CA 94035 USA Phone: (415) 604-4524 Fax: (415) 604-3957 Email: vrais@eece.unm.edu ==== REFUND POLICY ==== If your registration must be canceled, your fee will be refunded less $50 U.S. administration costs. You must notify us in writing by March 8, 1996. 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IEEE Member IEEE Member Non-Member Non-Member by March 8 after March 8 by March 8 after March 8 Full-Day Tutorial $250 $300 $315 $380 Half-Day Tutorial $175 $210 $220 $265 Student Student by March 8 after March 8 Full-Day Tutorial $125 $150 Half-Day Tutorial $80 $110 Tutorial Selection Please indicate tutorial #'s (e.g., 1A, 2C) Tutorial # Alternate ____ One Tutorial ____ ____ ____ Two Tutorials ___ ___ ____ ____ Three Tutorials ___ ___ ___ ____ ____ Four Tutorials ___ ___ ___ ___ ____ Payment Enclosed: Registration Fees: $________________ Tutorial Fees: $________________ Additional Proceedings: $________________ SGI Onyx InfiniteReality demo ($8.00 bus fare): $________________ GRAND TOTAL ENCLOSED: $________________ Please enclose checks payable to "IEEE, Inc. 1996 Virtual Reality Annual International Symposium" Check # ____________ Amount $ ____________ OR...... Credit Card # ____________________________________ Exp. Date __________ Name on Credit Card: ______________________________________________ Please indicate Credit Card: VISA ____ MC____ AMEX ____ Authorized Signature __________________________________________ (FOREIGN PAYMENTS MUST BE MADE BY DRAFT ON A US BANK IN US DOLLARS) Fax or mail conference registration form to : IEEE VRAIS '96 P.O. Box 339 Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA Phone: (415) 604-4524 or (415) 604-4985 Fax: (415) 604-3957 *** EMAIL REGISTRATIONS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED *** ==== VRAIS '96 HOTEL RESERVATION FORM ==== Please reserve before the March 8, 1996 deadline. After that time, rooms are subject to availability. Mail hotel reservation form to: Santa Clara Marriott Hotel 2700 Mission College Boulevard Santa Clara, CA 95052-8181 attn: Group Reservations Phone: (800) 228-9290, (408) 988-1500 (Be sure to mention IEEE VRAIS when making a phone reservation) Fax: (408) 748-9529 Arrival Date: __________________ Arrival Time: __________________ Departure Date: ________________ Departure Time: ________________ Occupancy Room Type Request __Single - $97 __King __Smoking __Double - $97 __Double/Double __Nonsmoking Name:______________________________________________________________ Company: __________________________________________________________ Address: __________________________________________________________ City/State/Zip/Country: ___________________________________________ Telephone: ________________________________________________________ Sharing Room with: ________________________________________________ Check if handicapped accommodations required: ______ Name on Credit Card: ______________________________________________ Credit Card Number: _______________________________________________ American Express_______ Visa________ MasterCard________ Discover_______ Diners Club_______ Authorized Signature: ______________________ Expiration Date:_____________ One night's deposit ($106.22 incl. tax) enclosed $_________ Make check payable to Marriott. Reservations are subject to cancellation after 6PM unless held by one night's deposit or credit card guarantee. Marriott check-in time is 3:00PM. Check-out time is 11:00AM. Reservations must include a first night's deposit, plus 9.5% tax ($106.22) or guarantee with accepted credit card. ==== TUTORIAL DESCRIPTIONS ==== Tutorial 1A: User Interface Issues for Virtual Systems Chris Esposito, Boeing This tutorial presents a view of what the user interface and virtual reality communities have to offer one another. We will do this by discussing what the VR community knows about the existing body of UI research, the new opportunities and challenges that VR has for the UI community, and what the VR community has learned that modifies or extends what we know about interfaces. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tutorial 1B: Participants and Virtual Humans in VR N. Thalmann, Univ. of Geneva D. Thalmann, EPFL This tutorial will discuss the integration of virtual humans in virtual reality, the interaction of a participant with these virtual humans and the representation of the participant in a virtual world. We will discuss the state-of-the-art in these areas and the essential technologies for interactive entertainment and games, emphasizing real-time animation techniques, real-time motion tracking and communication between the participant and the virtual humans. Included will be a discussion of the concept of virtual actors and the main techniques to create and animate them. We will also present the general concept of task-level animation and autonomous actors reacting to their environment and making decisions based on perception systems, memory and reasoning, with examples of vision-based navigation and games. Finally, the interaction between real humans and virtual humans inside the virtual space will be presented with applications in telecooperative work. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tutorial 1C: Fundamentals of Optics in Head Mounted Displays J. Rolland, Univ. of North Carolina Head-mounted displays (HMD) have been designed since the 60's, yet we still await the "ultimate" high-resolution, large field of view HMD. As the technology evolves with higher quality displays and new feasible approaches to larger field of views, some basic knowledge of what is achievable with today's technology, coupled with an analysis of the application, may help identify the best choices. This tutorial will present the basic principles of optical imaging in HMDs, different approaches to HMD design, how the optics interface to the graphical software, calibration issues, and image quality criteria, such as the effect of optical aberrations, and what one needs to know about display photometry. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tutorial 1D: Psychophysics and Technology of Virtual Acoustic Displays E. Wenzel, NASA; S. Foster, Crystal River Engineering; N. Miner, Sandia National Laboratories Virtual acoustics is the simulation of the complex acoustic field experienced by a listener within an environment. The three main components of the virtual acoustic sound process are: sound generation, environmental effects modeling and 3-D localization or auralization. This half-day tutorial will provide students with insight into state-of-the-art research, techniques, technologies and issues of the entire virtual acoustic process. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tutorial 2A: Introduction to Haptic Simulation P. Buttolo, B. Hannaford, Univ. of Washington; W. McNeeley, Boeing This course provides an introduction to fundamental concepts, issues and progress in the quest for safe and effective force servers for immersive VR applications. It is intended to bridge the technocultural gap between haptics and non-haptics VR specialists. Relevant fundamental concepts are drawn from physics, biomechanics and robotics. This establishes the background for subsequent application-oriented discussions of haptic architectures, system requirements, system interfacing, and collaborative haptics. This body of formal knowledge is then illustrated with leading-edge examples, such as robot graphics for astronaut EVA training, a pen-based force display, and experimentation into collaborative distributed haptics over the Internet. Some of these examples are further illustrated and coordinated with hands-on demonstrations in the Exhibits area. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tutorial 2B: Interactive Visualization of Supercomputer Simulations R. Stevens, T. Disz, M. Papka, Argonne National Laboratories; V. Taylor, Northwestern Univ. This course will discuss the integration of interactive visualization environments with supercomputers used for simulation of scientific applications. The topics include interactive visualization technology (tracking, display systems, sound, modeling), communication mechanisms (software and hardware) needed for system integration, system performance, and the use of multiple visualization systems. Experience with the Cave Automatic Virtual Environment (CAVE) connected to an IBM SP machine will be used to illustrate concepts. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tutorial 2C: VR in Medicine Today K. Vosburgh, W. Lorensen, GE; G. Burdea, Rutgers Univ. In this tutorial, we will discuss the application of VR to medicine, both in the training of physicians and in patient care. We will examine the technical basis of this work, the current status of several commercial and academic developments, and the prospects for the future. We will review the sources of generic and specific anatomical information, its organization and application to 3D models, efforts to develop "standard" 3D anatomical data bases, the limitations and prospects for improving models derived from diagnostic imaging data bases, and various approaches to displaying the information. We will discuss the use of 3D models in the training of surgeons, with emphasis on incorporation of realistic tactile feedback and perturbation of the model structures, and the possible extension of this approach to telesurgery. In addition, the use of VR technology in clinical experiments will be covered, including teleradiology, the use of 3D models in surgical planning, the application of video merging techniques to real time surgery, and real time image acquisition and display during surgery. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tutorial 2D: The Conversational Computer: Integrating Multimodal Input into Virtual Environments M. Billinghurst, W. J. King, University of Washington; D. Koons, MIT Nearly thirty years ago, Nicholas Negroponte postulated the conversational computer, a machine that humans could interact with in the same way that they do with each other, using voice, gesture, facial expression, gaze and body language. Though it is still unrealized today, many of the underlying technologies have been developed. In this tutorial we aim to show how these technologies can be used to integrate multimodal input into virtual environments. We will introduce the techniques used in creating virtual worlds with which users can interact using intuitive combinations of voice, gesture and facial expressions. Participants will also become familiar with previous successful multi-modal interfaces as well as critical areas for future research. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ==== ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ==== General Chair: Steve Bryson MRJ/NASA Ames Research Center Program Co-Chairs: Sharon Stansfield Sandia National Labs Michael J. Zyda Naval Postgraduate School Finance Chair: Maria Marsilio MRJ/NASA Ames Research Center Tutorials Chair: Chris Codella IBM T. J. Watson Research Center Exhibits Co-Chairs: Henry Sowizral Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation Karen Haines University of New Mexico Publicity Co-Chairs: John Hardman MRJ/NASA Ames Research Center Leslie Schlecht MRJ/NASA Ames Research Center Registration Chair: Lyz Baumiller CSC/NASA Ames Research Center Local Arrangements Co-Chairs: Sandy Johan NASA Ames Research Center Leslie Schlecht MRJ/NASA Ames Research Center Publications Chair: Larry Rosenblum Naval Research Laboratory Video Chair: Joseph M. Rosen Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center Student Volunteer Chair: Mark Green University of Alberta Press Relations Chair: Nadine Miner Sandia National Laboratories ==== PROGRAM COMMITTEE ==== Bernard D. Adelstein, University of California, Berkeley/NASA Ames Research Center Joanna Alexander, Zombie Inc. Ron Azuma, Hughes Research Laboratories Norman Badler, University of Pennsylvania Woodrow Barfield, University of Washington Stephen Benton, MIT Chuck Blanchard, Talisman Dynamics, Inc. Mark Bolas, Fake Space Labs Kellogg Booth, University of British Columbia Pere Brunet, Polytechnical University of Catalonia Grigore Burdea, Rutgers University Thomas P. Caudell, University of New Mexico Chris Codella, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Carolina Cruz-Neira, Iowa State University Mike Daily, Hughes Research Labs Michael Deering, Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation Rae Earnshaw, University of Leeds Steve Ellis, NASA Ames Research Center Jose Encarnacao, Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Kim Fairchild, National University of Singapore Steve Feiner, Columbia University Wolfgang Felger, Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Scott Foster, Crystal River Engineering Henry Fuchs, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Thomas Funkhouser, AT&T Bell Laboratories Michael Gigante, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Martin Goebel, Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Mark Green, University of Alberta Hideki Hashimoto, University of Tokyo Michitaka Hirose, University of Tokyo Larry Hodges, Georgia Tech John Hollerbach, University of Utah Philip Hubbard, Cornell University Siu-Leong Iu, Rockwell Science Center Hiroo Iwata, University of Tsukuba Rob Jacob, Tufts University Adam Janin, Boeing Computer Services Mary Kaiser, NASA Ames Research Center Ken-ichi Kameyama, Toshiba R&D Center Arie Kaufman, SUNY, Stony Brook Myron Krueger, Artificial Reality James Lackner, Ashton Graybiel Spatial Orientation Laboratory Andy Liu, Nissan Cambridge Basic Research Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, University of Geneva Michael W. McGreevy, NASA Ames Research Center Margaret Minsky, Interval Dinesh Manocha, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Junji Nomura, Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd. Steve Pieper, Medical Media Systems Ronald Pose, Monash University Dennis Proffitt, University of Virginia Warren Robinett, Virtual Reality Games, Inc. Jannick Rolland, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Joseph M. Rosen, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center Larry Rosenblum, Naval Research Laboratory Rick Satava, Advanced Research Projects Agency Luis Serra, National University of Singapore Gurminder Singh, National University of Singapore Mel Slater, QMW University of London Henry Sowizral, Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation Mandayam A. Srinivasan, MIT Lawrence W. Stark, University of California at Berkeley Susumu Tachi, University of Tokyo Daniel Thalmann, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology James Thomas, Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratory Elizabeth Wenzel, NASA Ames Research Center Alan Wexelblat, MIT David Zeltzer, MIT ------------------------------------------------------------------- VRAIS'96 is also supported by: Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) NASA Ames Research Center NAS Division CyberEdge Journal