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IP: Just a reminder -- Virtual Humans 2
From: David Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Mon, 26 May 1997 20:17:26 -0400
Virtual Humans 2 June 17-19 1997 Universal Hilton, Los Angeles Organised by VR NEWS and KillerApp Communications Sponsored by Silicon Graphics Just a brief reminder that the early registration period for VH2 runs out this week. The full program and registration form can be found at the event web site, www.vrnews.com/vh2.html Highlights include: - Prof. David Farber's visionary Snow Crash panel initiative, which will compare the state of the art in online virtual communities with Neal Stephenson's benchmark novel. - Virtual Tennis - the Thalmann's real-time version, followed by Digital Domain's celebrated virtual Andre Agassi, presented by Andre Bustanoby, one of the world's leading performance capture specialists - Some of Industrial Light & Magic's latest and best character simulation work, demonstrated and explained by top animator/designer Ellen Poon (whose credits include Men in Black, The Mask, Disclosure, Jumanji, etc,) - Televirtual will unveil their world-beating next generation technology, which enables a virtual TV host to move amongst and interact closely with the studio audience. - We have four of the leading vendors of industrial humanoids - Deneb, Genicom, Transom and Tecmath - putting their ergonomic proteges through their most demanding paces, one after the other. - And then there's Prof. Frank Biocca's panel - Communication Needs for Virtual Humans; Prof. Lewis Johnson's panel - Virtual Humans as Autonomous Agents; and Bernie Roehl's landmark panel on Virtual Humans Standards. - Plus lots more leading edge applications stuff - virtual humans in games, teleconferencing, military simulation, avatar worlds, historical reconstructions, and crowd simulation for emergency planning. - Not to mention the sparkling performance we can expect from vrguru Linda Jacobson, moderating the second day's events, and her Silicon Graphics colleague Ron Fischer, who is running the Motion Capture workshop on day 3. This is by any standards an extraordinary event - last year's inaugural show was a brilliant success and this year's is even bigger, even better - and even better value. Dr Sandra Helsel will be opening the event on behalf of VR NEWS, and all the best and brightest VR people will be there - don't even think about missing it. See you in Los Angeles. Mike
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