cyberoid@milton.u.washington.edu (Robert Jacobson) (06/20/91)
>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]
-- kilian@poplar.cray.com (Alan Kilian) (06/21/91)
I was noticing that the International Symposium on Artificial Reality and
Tele-Existence was sponsored by Nihon Keizai Shimbun Inc. & Japan Technology
Transfer Association.
The lectures are all by US people. (Other than the keynote address)
Guess which way the technology is transferring.
Any other thoughts like this out there or am I just paranoid?
-Alan "Where are all the US autos?" Kilian
-Alan Kilian kilian@cray.com 612.683.5499
Cray Research, Inc. | "If the human brain was so simple that we
655 F Lone Oak Drive | could understand it, we would be so simple
Eagan MN, 55121 | that we couldn't". -Pugh (Whoever that is)cyberoid@milton.u.washington.edu (Bob Jacobson) (06/21/91)
In article <1991Jun20.234839.10114@milton.u.washington.edu> kilian@poplar. cray.com (Alan Kilian) writes: >I was noticing that the International Symposium on Artificial Reality and >Tele-Existence was sponsored by Nihon Keizai Shimbun Inc. & Japan Technology >Transfer Association. > >The lectures are all by US people. (Other than the keynote address) > >Guess which way the technology is transferring. > >Any other thoughts like this out there or am I just paranoid? > > -Alan "Where are all the US autos?" Kilian > > -Alan Kilian kilian@cray.com 612.683.5499 > Cray Research, Inc. | "If the human brain was so simple that we > 655 F Lone Oak Drive | could understand it, we would be so simple > Eagan MN, 55121 | that we couldn't". -Pugh (Whoever that is) Conferences are how we advance our field. If the U.S. computer industry feels strongly about virtual worlds, it will sponsor a conference, too. Japanese researchers have been invited to numerous North American and European conferences and have been forthcoming with their work. Also, there are many Japanese researchers who will be at this conference to share their work. Their names do not appear on the flyer, I surmise, because they are already known to the Japanese audience for which the flyer (translated as a courtesy to the American participants) is intended. I have already been invited to several of these two-way meetings. Ultimately, there is not much the American researchers will say that is unknown to the Japanese. They are competent and capable researchers on their own; their VR is fine. Meetings like this one accomplish the same goal as conferences around the world: to build global relationships on the personal and professional level. I am sure the domestic VR community would welcome Cray taking a lead in bringing the North American community together. Bob Jacobson
dtj@sumac.cray.com (Dean Johnson) (06/21/91)
|> I am sure the domestic VR community would welcome Cray taking a |> lead in bringing the North American community together. I seriously doubt that this a possibility while "Sensory Modalities" and other such trivia is all the rage, and nuts-and-bolts discussions like "what are the hardware requirements?" are shunted to mailing lists (Hi Alan!). If it weren't for the powerglove being so enigmatic, there would be no "reality" flowing into this newsgroup, IMHO. Sorry to be so pragmatic. Dean Johnson Software Berserker/Rabid-Prototyping Specialist Tools, Libraries, and Commands Group Cray Research Inc. Eagan,MN (612) 683-5880
cyberoid@milton.u.washington.edu (Bob Jacobson) (06/21/91)
In article <1991Jun21.055051.28165@milton.u.washington.edu> dtj@sumac.cray. com (Dean Johnson) writes [incorporating my earlier posting, in part]: >|> I am sure the domestic VR community would welcome Cray taking a >|> lead in bringing the North American community together. > >I seriously doubt that this a possibility while "Sensory Modalities" and >other such trivia is all the rage, and nuts-and-bolts discussions like >"what are the hardware requirements?" are shunted to mailing lists (Hi Alan!). >If it weren't for the powerglove being so enigmatic, there would be no >"reality" flowing into this newsgroup, IMHO. Sorry to be so pragmatic. > > > Dean Johnson > Software Berserker/Rabid-Prototyping Specialist > Tools, Libraries, and Commands Group > Cray Research Inc. Eagan,MN (612) 683-5880 > Interestingly, it's Fujitsu and Hitachi, names no doubt familiar to many in the supercomputer business, who are catalyzing the Japanese VR movement. Just to get one thing straight, no one is "shunting the nuts-and-bolts discussions to mailing lists." The person setting up a mailing list is doing it of his own accord, to achieve a more intensive discussion on PowerGloves. So far as I can read the popular mood through Roll Call etc., many people agree with the mailing-list host that the Power- Glove is an item of limited interest that merits a more restricted treatment. As to why "sensory modalities" are trivia, or why Cray won't emulate its overseas counterparts, I'm afraid I don't understand the response. But a moderator has to be reasonably discreet, so I'll bow out and let the Group Mind work its will. Bob Jacobson Moderator