From: Matthias Wapler Subject: CFP: Virtual Reality World '97 Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 14:55:06 +0100 Organization: Fraunhofer-IPA Find out about Virtual Reality World '97 -- now in its third year, this conference and exhibition has established itself as Europe's most important Virtual Reality event. 1997 promises to be the best Virtual Reality World yet! Most noticeably, the Virtual Reality World '97 has moved to the Messe Stuttgart International on the Killesberg to take account of the increased space requirements of the exhibition. Also, we have listened to your suggestions and moved the event to May, when springtime is at its most dazzling in Stuttgart. More at http://www.ipa.fhg.de/vrw97/ Virtual Reality World '97 continues to be the forum for Virtual Reality users, system providers, application developers and researchers to present and discuss the latest advances in this technology. This years conference will feature another novelty -- the interactive sessions -- where a critical assessment of the successes and unreached expectations of Virtual Reality in various applications will be carried out. For newcomers this is an excellent opportunity to evaluate the benefits of this technology. 1997 may well be the year when high-performance interactive 3D graphics will start to have a significant impact in low-cost systems. 3D applications on the Internet will be a big driving force. Therefore, the Virtual Reality World '97 is under the theme "Virtual Reality hits the Web", to investigate how Virtual Reality can benefit form the enormous success of the World-Wide-Web and vice-versa. Call for Papers Virtual Reality World '97 is Europe's leading forum for presenting Virtual Reality technology. The conference provides both an opportunity to present advances in application development to potential users as well as to exchange latest results in research. More than 300 international participants are expected to attend the conference. Participants include end-users, technology consultants, application developers and researchers. This year papers are invited on the following subjects: VRML Industrial Applications Rapid Prototyping Distributed Virtual Reality Entertaiment Medicine Man-Machine Interfaces Architecture Tourism Basic Resarch Authors are asked to submit an abstract of a maximum of 8000 characters, in English, by e-mail to wapler@ipa.fhg.de or on paper to: Fraunhofer-Institut f|r Produktionstechnik und Automatisierung M. Wapler Nobelstra_e 12 D-70659 Stuttgart GERMANY Fax: +49 (0)711 / 970-1005 Abstracts should be received no later than 15th February 1997. All abstracts will be revieved by the scientific committee. Authors of accepted abstracts will be informed by 15th March 1997. You will then receive information on the formatting of the final paper. The final photo-ready paper is due by 11th April 1997 and will be published in the proceedings.