From root@newsbf02.news.aol.com Mon Jun 12 10:14:48 1995 Return-Path: Received: from mx5.u.washington.edu by stein2.u.washington.edu (5.65+UW95.05/UW-NDC Revision: 2.33 ) id AA09103; Mon, 12 Jun 95 10:14:48 -0700 Received: from hitl-new.hitl.washington.edu by mx5.u.washington.edu (5.65+UW95.05/UW-NDC Revision: 2.31 ) id AA15490; Mon, 12 Jun 95 10:14:47 -0700 Received: from relay2.UU.NET (relay2.UU.NET [192.48.96.7]) by hitl.hitl.washington.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id KAA06007 for ; Mon, 12 Jun 1995 10:14:44 -0700 Received: from mail02.mail.aol.com by relay2.UU.NET with ESMTP id QQytvg29139; Mon, 12 Jun 1995 13:14:40 -0400 Received: from newsbf02.news.aol.com by mail02.mail.aol.com with SMTP (1.37.109.11/16.2) id AA085947279; Mon, 12 Jun 1995 13:14:39 -0400 Received: by newsbf02.news.aol.com (1.38.193.5/16.2) id AA25545; Mon, 12 Jun 1995 13:14:39 -0400 Posted-Date: 12 Jun 1995 13:14:29 -0400 Received-Date: Mon, 12 Jun 1995 13:14:39 -0400 To: sci-virtual-worlds@uunet.uu.net Path: newsbf02.news.aol.com!not-for-mail From: pcrvrjon@aol.com (PCR VR Jon) Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds Subject: EVENT: LA Virtual Reality SIG - June 20th Meeting! Date: 12 Jun 1995 13:14:29 -0400 Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364) Lines: 89 Sender: root@newsbf02.news.aol.com Message-Id: <3rhsll$otp@newsbf02.news.aol.com> Reply-To: pcrvrjon@aol.com (PCR VR Jon) X-Status: Status: OR [From my friends at the Electronic Cafe! -jon] VRSIG AT ECI-SANTA MONICA June 20th, 1995 at 7:30 PM PST Electronic Cafe International's home base in Santa Monica, in association with the ECI Virtual Reality SIG PRESENTS: Michael Boehm will review the VRML version of the Interactive Media Festival's ARC Gallery (ON SITE) and "VIRTUAL VALLEY" Founder Cleopatra Alfenita (FROM SAN FRANCISCO VIA PICTURETEL) The next meeting of the monthly VRSIG at The Electronic Cafe International in Santa Monica, will take place on Tuesday June 20th. The meeting will begin at 7:30 PM with a PictureTel video conference interview featuring Ms. Cleopatra Alfenita, a writer and VR marketing/Public Relations consultant. Cleo is also the founder and organizer of "VIRTUAL VALLEY", The VRSIG for San Francisco's South Bay Area and Silicon Valley. She will be joined by some of the VR technologists from her group, which has been meeting every 2 months since September of 1994. Cleo will discuss her views on Virtual Reality as a marketing tool, as well as discuss the ongoing activities of VIRTUAL VALLEY. Joining us for a live presentation at The Electronic Cafe International will be Michael Boehm, President of Fish Interactive in Pasadena. Michael served as leader of the Southern California team that worked on The Motorola Interactive Media Festival's ARC Gallery VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) Project. The recently completed Festival was held at the Variety Arts Center in Downtown Los Angeles.The collaboratve ARC VRML project produced a 3D, navigable, virtual version of The Variety Arts Center and the ARC Gallery on their World Wide Web Site (http://www.arc.org/). In addition, still video images were captured by various cameras throughout the duration of the ARC Gallery exhibition, and GIF versions of these real world still images were textured onto selected polygons in the Web based VRMLworld, every 15 minutes. Michael will speak about some of the valuable lessons learned by the team of northern and southern Californians who participated in this pioneering VRML project. The Electronic Cafe International is located at 1649 18th Street in Santa Monica's 18th Street Arts Complex. From the 405 and the 10 Fwys intersection, take the 10 West to the Cloverfield/26th Street exit. Go right to Olympic, left to 18th Street, then right to the end of the block. The Cafe is located on the Southeast corner of the parking lot on the right at the end of 18th street. Parking is available in the lot, on 18th Street, and on Olympic. Admission in Santa Monica is $10.00. For more information call Dave Blackburn at 310-545-0369. The Electronic Cafe can be contacted at ecafe@netcom.com The San Francisco videoconference location is at INTERNEWS, an Electronic Cafe International affiliate, located on the 3rd floor of the 3220 Gallery, which is at 3220 Sacramento Street, between Lyon and Presidio (in Pacific Heights) Contact at INTERNEWS: Liduina Van Nes at (415) 931-1369 or email: liduina@internews.org. Thanks you Liduina and Internews. If the event is cybercast over the Internet via CU-SeeMe the reflector will be 198.147.96.75 (Thanks Metawire) ================================================== Jon Neill Resource Consultant AOL VR Resource Center PCRVRJon@aol.com ===================================================