IP: Just a reminder -- Virtual Humans 2

[David Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

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