From: cyberoid@milton.u.washington.edu (Robert Jacobson)
Subject: Japanese Symposium on Artificial Reality, 9-10 July 1991, Tokyo
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1991 15:21:05 GMT
Organization: Human Interface Technology Lab, Univ. of Wash., Seattle




>From The WELL:

Topic  44:  VR Event Announcements
# 78: Adam Peake (peake)      Thu, Jun 20, '91  (00:29)      76 lines
 
 International Symposium on Artificial Reality and Tele-Existence
 
 Date:  July 9-10
 Venue:  Tokyo Ryutsu Center
 Sponsors:  Nihon Keizai Shimbun Inc. & Japan Technology Transfer
            Association.
 Registration fee:  60,000 yen (inc. tax, documents, lunch)
 
 Programme
 
 Day One
 
 Keynote lecture

 Yoshio Tsukio, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Tokyo;
 "Industrial Effect of VR Technology"
 
 Lectures

 Thomas B. Sheridan, Professor of Engineering and Applied Psychology,
 MIT; "Telepresence and Artificial Reality - Some Hard Questions"
 
 Steve Bryson, NASA-AMES Research Center;
 "A Virtual Environment for the Exploration of Three Dimensional Steady
 Flows"
 
 Charles Grantham, Professor of University of San Francisco;
 "Using Virtual Reality to Examine Organizational Functioning"
 
 Presentation Speech

 Reflection Technology Corporation (U.S.A.)
 "VR Display Parameters for Low-cost Games"
 
 Reception
 
 Day Two
 
 Lectures

 Myron W. Krueger, President, Artificial Reality Corporation;
 "What Should You Wear to an Artificial Reality?"
 
 Robert Jacobson, Associate Director, Human Interface Technology
 Laboratory, University of Washington;
 "Virtual Worlds: Towards a Global Collaboration"
 
 Jaron Lanier, CEO, VPL Corporation
 
 Presentations by various companies (to be decided)
 
 Panel Discussion - "The Realization of VR, can it become true" as;
 (i) Basic Technology of Society, (ii) Business, (iii) Art Expressions and
 Media, (iv) Study.
 
 Coordinator, Susumu Tachi, Associate Professor, University of Tokyo.
 Panelists; Thomas B. Sheridan, Myron W. Krueger, Robert Jacobson,
 Nichitaka Hirose (Associate Professor, University of Tokyo), Makoto Sato
 (Associate Professor, Research Lab. of precision Machinery and
 Electronics, Tokyo Institute of Technology), Hiro Iwata (Associate
 Professor, Institute of Engineering Mechanics, University of Tsukuba).
 
 For more information please contact:
 
 Kenichi Kaeriyama or Kenji Hasegawa,
 General Projects Department, Projects Developments Bureau, Nihon
 Keizai Shimbun, Inc. (NIKKEI), 1-9-5 Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku,
 Tokyo 100-66, Japan.
 Tel: (81) (3) 3252-8157  Fax: (81) (3) 3256-5749
 
 For details of a travel package (from the U.S.A. only) please contact:
 
 Visitors Inc.  Attn. Mr. Long,  645 Fifth Avenue, N.Y. 10022.
 Tel: (212) 935-4420    (800) 387-4368
 Fax: (212) 980-6089
 
 Applications (name, title, company name and address) should be sent to:
 Japan Technology Transfer Association (JTTAS), Attn. Mr. Ishikawa,
 Tel: (81) (3) 3584-0207  Fax: (81) (3) 3585-9369.


[MODERATOR'S NOTE:  An interesting affair, first of its type in Japan.

[As to travel, check with your own agent first.  I found Visitours 
prone to give me the fares easiest for them to compute, i.e., without
discounts.  The Pacific Meridien Hotel, where the conference is being
held, is extremely expensive; no way around it.  But you may beat the
airfares offered by Visitours. -- Bob Jacobson]
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