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Hi all
Below are some more details of the next LVRG meeting. Please remember to
sign up as a member of the group on the website
(http://www.lvrg.org.uk), we will only be able to admit members to the
meeting. As we can only cater for a maximum of 80 people, we will have
to let people in on a 'first come - first served' basis.
For the meeting we will be having 2 short talks (20 mins) and one
hands-on 'demonstration' followed by a 'panel led' debate. As usual we
will be mixing this with time for informal chat, drinks etc ;-) We will
also be holding elections, Avon will mail details shortly.
'Presence in the future'
The firsts meeting in the 1999-2000 series 'Refocusing Virtual Reality'
(for details of the series see below).
Date: Thursday 8th April 1999
Time: 6.30-9.30pm
Venue: The Virtual Reality Centre for the Built Environment
Address: 1-19 Torrington Place, London WC1 (just off Tottenham Court
Road)
Sponsor: VR News
This meeting is the first in the 1999 series 'Refocusing Virtual
Reality' (for details see below).
So far confirmed are:
- Steve Ellis (Head of the Advanced Displays and Spatial Perception
Laboratory, NASA Ames Research Center)
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- Sharon Springel (Microsoft Industrial Research Fellow at CCSR)
- Jonathan Freeman (Senior Research Officer, Department of Psychology,
University of Essex)
- Wijnand IJsselsteijn (IPO, Center for Research on User-System
Interaction).
We hope to have a demonstration of the latest Japanese Head Mounted
Displays.
I aim to post a more detailed agenda on the website and the mailing list
in the next couple of weeks. If you have any questions please mail me
(instructions for joining the group and the group mailing list are all
given at the website http://www.lvrg.org.uk).
Regards
Simon
'Refocusing Virtual Reality': a series of talks for The London Virtual
Reality Group (1999-2000)
We have arranged a series of 4 meetings on the theme (the series has
been sponsored by VR NEWS). As we approach the next century (and
millennium :-), it seems an appropriate point to assess the state of VR
and to look forward to the next 100 years (the next millennium might be
too ambitious...but if you have a vision, there will be plenty of time
for discussion!).
The four topics for the series are:
* presence ( a look at us the latest research and theories
concerning the sense of presence in a virtual environment and a debate
on future research and applications)
* the body ( what does it mean to be embodied in a virtual
reality, where will this have most impact in the next century)
* community (is there are developing consensus of how a community
will form in shared virtual space, how will the communities of the next
century evolve)
* narrative (how have the complex issues of interactive narrative
been addressed and what developments will we see in the future)
Topics following the fist meeting have not been fixed and we are open to
suggestions, so please mail a committee member if you have an
alternative or additional topic.
We have decided to change the format slightly this series. For the next
meeting we will be having 2 short talks (20 mins) and one hands-on
'demonstration' followed by a 'panel led' debate. As usual we will be
mixing this with time for informal chat, drinks etc :-)
Simon Bore
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