From diderot@hitl.washington.edu Mon Jul 3 10:32:13 1995 Return-Path: Received: from mx5.u.washington.edu by saul5.u.washington.edu (5.65+UW95.05/UW-NDC Revision: 2.33 ) id AA19759; Mon, 3 Jul 95 10:32:13 -0700 Received: from hitl-new.hitl.washington.edu by mx5.u.washington.edu (5.65+UW95.05/UW-NDC Revision: 2.31 ) id AA24632; Mon, 3 Jul 95 10:32:12 -0700 Received: from [128.95.74.170] (diderot.hitl.washington.edu [128.95.74.170]) by hitl.hitl.washington.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id KAA21025 for ; Mon, 3 Jul 1995 10:32:10 -0700 X-Sender: diderot@hitl.washington.edu Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 3 Jul 1995 10:36:13 -0700 To: scivw@hitl.washington.edu From: "Virtual Reality World '96" (by way of diderot@hitl.washington.edu (Toni Emerson)) Subject: CALL: Virtual Reality World '96 Status: OR --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Contributions --------------------------------------------------------------------------- V I R T U A L R E A L I T Y W O R L D '96 * Europe's leading VR event * February 13 - February 15, 1996 Stuttgart, Germany --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Background --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 'Virtual Reality World' is THE event for everybody involved with a special or all the different aspects of Virtual Reality today and in the future. As Europe's leading and biggest VR event the VRW consists of different parts like a conference, an exhibition, an experience park, workshops etc. which offer plenty of possibilities for internationally exchanging experiences and knowledge between people representing the VR community, researchers, firms which are planning to or already use VR technology and people simply interested in VR. The VRW '96 is the follower of the successful VRW '95, which was also held in Stuttgart, Germany as an integration of the three famous European VR-conferences VR-Forum, Stuttgart, VR-Expo, London and VR-Vienna. With visitors from 15 different countries, more than 700 people at the conference, 2300 people at the experience park and about 2.000 people at the exhibition the VRW '95 has shown that the strong interest in VR has left the research institutes and has reached new forms of real applications in industry. As a consequence of this development the VRW '96 lays its emphasis especially on the discussion and presentation of fields where VR technology is currently beeing used. A special focus of the conference is the dissemination of results gained by research projects supported by the Commission of European Communities. All participants of VR related EU-projects are especially invited to join the conference. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Structure and Contents --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The VRW '96 consists of several different parts: a Pre-Conference with Special Courses, Hands-on Tutorials and Workshops to selected topics, a Conference splitted into several sessions, an Exhibition of state-of-the-art VR software, hardware and applications, an Experience Parc especially for the entertainment field, Special Interest Group meetings and the Interactive Art Contest whose winners and results will be shown at the spectacular final Interactive Festival. Because of the diversity of the VRW '96 separate procedures and deadlines for participation at the different parts have been designated. For more information you should look under the corresponding detailed description. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- P r e - C o n f e r e n c e (February 13th, 1996) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The aim of the Pre-Conference is to offer a detailed entry or deepening into VR-related topics by three different kinds of courses. Besides the mentioned examples nearly every topic named under the Conference description could be also choosed for the courses. Firms which would like to introduce and present their VR-software and hardware products or their actual use are also encouraged to send their suggestions. C o u r s e s: Half-day lectures for Beginners, Advanced and Professionals in special topics (e.g.: introduction to OpenGL or overview of VR Systems); unlimited participation. T u t o r i a l s: Half-day or all-day hands-on courses to broader topics (e.g.: introduction to VR); limited to 30 participants. W o r k s h o p s: Presentation of mostly scientific papers in very special topics. If you are intending to hold a course, tutorial or workshop, please send us a detailed description of the contents (3-4 pages) together with a rough schedule for the run of events. After the selection we will inform you about the further procedure. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- C o n f e r e n c e (February 14-15th, 1996) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Conference will be divided into several sessions containing talks related to each other. Possible topics for the conference are: VR in Medicine Architecture Robotics Virtual Prototyping VR & Entertainment VR & Education Human Computer Interfaces Applied Research in VR Commercial Tools Tools in R&D New Media Facial Expressions Hardware Military Applications Virtual Simulators VR in Industry VR in Society Telecommunication VR & Artificial Intelligence VR & Standards VR & TV production Virtual Actors VR & Online Services VR & Art VR in Therapy VR & Tourism VR & Law Authors are invited to send an electronic form or two paper copies of an extended abstract (max. 8.000 chars) to the address below. The selection of speakers will take place on the basis of the abstracts reviewed by the program committee after the deadline. Full versions of all accepted papers will be published in the VRW '96 conference proceedings distributed among the participants of the workshop and also available for the public. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- I n t e r a c t i v e A r t C o n t e s t --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Interactive Art Contest (IAC) is a special offer to artists in the VR and computer community who have searched for a platform to perform and present their interactive work to and with a large audience. There are no special requirements for participating the IAC, just the more or less massive use of electronic tools and most important the interaction with the (whole) audience is appreciated. The results of the IAC will be presented at the big final event of the VRW '96, the Interactive Festival with hundreds of visitors, where the best results will be awarded. If you have a great idea in that context please contact us under the address below. Even if you do not have the full equipment or know-how yet, do not hesitate to send in the description of your idea (1-2 pages) together with a rough plan of the run of events and the equipment. If necessary we will discuss how we can support you. We are very curious about your creative inspiration! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- S p e c i a l I n t e r e s t G r o u p Meetings --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Like the year before the VRW '96 offers again facilities for SIG Meetings related to VR. If your SIG intends to benefit from the international gathering of the VR community please contact us as soon as possible, so we can schedule together. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Schedule --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pre-Conference: August 21st, 1995: deadline for course descriptions September 19th, 1995: notification of acceptance February 13th, 1996: VRW '96: courses/tutorials/workshops Conference: August 21st, 1995: deadline for abstracts September 4th, 1995: notification of acceptance October 30th, 1995: full papers February 14th, 1996: VRW '96 - conference Art Contest: August 1st, 1995: deadline for project ideas August 15th, 1995: notification of acceptance of ideas November 1st, 1995: deadline for completed art projects November 15th, 1995: notification of acceptance of projects February 15th, 1996: VRW '96 - awards at the Interactive Festival SIG Meetings: November 1st, 1995: deadline for letters-of-intend November 15th, 1995: notification of acceptance of SIGs February 13th, 1996: VR-SIG meetings --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mailing Procedure --------------------------------------------------------------------------- To send in your request please use the MAIN ADRESS below. For e-mail you should further enter the corresponding keyword in your SUBJECT field to become sure that you will reach the responsible partner. Keywords: PRE-CONFERENCE, CONFERENCE, EXHIBITION, EXPERIENCE, SIG, INFORMATION, BOOKING, HOTELS, MEDIA, ART, SPONSOR. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- MAIN ADDRESS --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Organizer: IDG conferences & seminars VRW '96 Rheinstrasse 28 80803 Munich Germany Email: VRW.IDG@IAO.FhG.de Phone: +49-89-36086-390 Fax : +49-89-36086-274 Hotline to responsible project manager: Stephan Wawrzinek 100104.2125@compuserve.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Further Organizations --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Co-Organizer: Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering (FhG-IAO) Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation (FhG-IPA) Stuttgart, Germany Email: Andreas.Roessler@IAO.FhG.de Fax : +49-711-970-2299 Supported by: COMPUTERWOCHE Munich, Germany --------------------------------------------------------------------------- J O I N T H E V I R T U A L R E A L I T Y W O R L D ! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------