CyberEdge Information Services: VRU Archive

Articles & Papers: VRU Archive

Virtual Reality Universe '97 was a major conference on the applications, technology, and business of virtual reality. It was sponsored by CyberEdge Information Services and Aligned Management, and took place in April 1997 in Santa Clara, California.

These are the speakers who made this VRU '97 so successful, and some of their papers.

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We regret that some of the llustrations for some papers have been lost.

Keynote Presentations

The Future of
3D Interactive Technology
Jon Peddie
President, Jon Peddie Associates,
Publisher of The PC Graphics Report
Thursday, April 3, 9:00

Mark Pesce
The Future of VRML

Mark Pesce
Co-inventer of VRML
Friday, April 4, 9:00

Financial and Strategic
Opportunities
in Real-Time Media
Patricia Glovsky
Investment Banker
Saturday, April 5, 9:00

Special Events

Visit to Silicon Graphics Inc.'s Visionarium
Wednesday, April 2, 7-9:30 PM.
Limited to first 150 people.

Conference Reception and Cocktail Party
In the Exhibit Hall. Thursday, April 3, 6:30-8:30 PM.
All Conference and Exhibits registrants are welcome.

Conference Banquet
Featuring the presentation of the CyberEdge Journal Virtual Reality Product of the Year Awards
Friday, April 4, 7 PM. All Conference registrants are welcome.

Tutorials All tutorials were offered on Wednesday, April 2 Presented by leading VR companies
Government Contracting and the Small VR Company: How to Succeed in Business by Really Trying	Dave Carmein, Roy Latham, Joanne Metzger, Janet Wiesenford-Heally
Digital Mock-ups in the Product Development Industry	Prosolvia Clarus
Using WTK & World Up	SENSE8
Using COSMO	Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Building 3D pages for the WWW	Superscape
Tracking Technoloy & Its Applications	Intersense/ Ed Costello

Paper Presentation Sessions
Session	Date/time	Participants	Titles
Apps – Data Visualization	4/3/97, 11:00	Aotani, Masayasu Ousland, Asbjorn Snowdon, Dave	FLY-BY applications Market data in a 3D world WWW3D: 3D multi-user web browser
Apps – Commercial Applications	4/3/97, 12:00	Costello, Edward	If you build it, will they come? Issues in marketing VR products
Apps – Training with VR	4/4/97, 10:00	Adams, Nina Towbin, Ginny d'Cruz, Mirabelle	Training with VR Truck driVR Issues in VR Training
Apps – Medical and Disability Issues	4/4/97, 14:30	Bowman, Tim Cobb, Sue Kreuger, Myron	Advanced Rehabilitative Technologies What effects may a user experience from immersion in VR? KnowWare: Virtual Maps for Blind People
Apps – Social Virtual Worlds	4/4/97, 14:30	Riley, Tim Odegard, Ola	Nerve Garden Virtual Teleconferencing for Social Interaction
Apps – Design Evaluation	4/4/97, 15:30	Berg, Tim Hahner, Linda	VR-Aided Design For Surety A Model for Navigating Information Data Sets on the WWW
Apps – Commercial Applications	4/5/97, 11:30	Barber, Trudy	Virtual Sex; the killer VR app?

Technology – Hardware	4/3/97, 17:00	Haskell, Richard Latham, Roy Park, Brian	Using Binary Symbols in Virtual Reality Tactile and force feedback through Dynamically Positioned Objects Flostation/Floroom
Technology – Tools 1	4/4/97, 16:30	Eastgate, Richard Kurmann. David Pettifer, Steve Shahidi, Ramin	Strategy for the Development of VE Apps Building space in VR Deva: coherent operating environment for large scale VR apps Volumetric Rendering for Virtual Colonoscopy
Technology – Tools 3	4/4/97, 17:30	Berg, Tim Krueger, Myron	Texture Feedback Device for Product Design Virtual Vaporware: Olfactory Stimuli in VR
Technology – Tools 2	4/5/97, 10:00	Salmela, Marko Snowdon, Dave Fulmer, Lee	Prototyping Tellecomm Products Subjective VR for Collaborative Information Visualization Virtacine - Clay Modelling in Virtual Reality


Panel Presentations
Panel	Date/Time	Moderator	Participants
VR: The Healing Art	4/3/97, 11:00	Galen Brandt	Myron Kreuger, Artificail Reality Corp. Anthony Lloyd, BioMuse Dorothy Strickland, North Carolina State University Suzanne Weghorst, HIT Lab
Lessons in Entertainment	4/3/97, 14:00	Louis M.Brill	Tom Milks, Virtuality Don Morris, Lightspeed Michael Getlin, Amusement Consultants Mark Messersmith, Skyline Multimedia Entertainment
Using VRML 2	4/3/97, 14:00	Bernie Roehl	David Coleen, Planet 9 Studios Timothy Childs, Curve Ed LaHood, VREAM
International Overview	4/3/97, 14:30	Andrew Connell, VR Solutions	Christian Bauer Jian Ming Agnes Kim
Avatar Technology and Applications	4/3/97, 16:00	Steve DiPaola	Bruce Damer Ioannis Paniara Kirk Parsons Bernie Roehl
Reviewing Virtual Reality Projects with 20-20 Hindsight	4/3/97, 17:00	Nina Adams, Adams Consulting	Chris Esposito, Boeing Eben Gay, ERG Engineering Ginny Towbin, Bravo Multimedia
Executive Roundtable	4/4/97, 10:00	Ben Delaney, CyberEdge Journal	Ian Andrew, Superscape Tom Coull, SENSE8 John Hough, Virtual Presense Linda Jacobson, Silicon Graphics, Inc Jack Scully, Ascension Technology Stefan Patchikov, ParaGraph
100:1 Solution – VR Apps with Big Paybacks	4/4/97, 11:15	Arthur Zwern, General Reality	Coby Everdell, Bechtel Lori Frietag, Argonne Natl. Lab Dennis Lese, Amoco
Staying Well in Virtual Worlds: Health and Safety Issues	4/4/97, 11:15	Dipl.-Ing. Oliver Riedel Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering (Germany) Competence Center Virtual Reality	Dr. Carolina Cruz-Neira, Iowa State University (USA), Iowa Center for Emerging Manufacturing Technology Dr. Tom Piantanida, Founder, SRI Virtual Perception Lab Prof. Takami Yamaguchi, Tokai University (Japan), School of High-Technology for Human Welfare, Department of Bio-Medical Engineering
Virtual Environment Research and Applications at NASA Ames Research Center.	4/4/97, 16:30	Mark Bolas, Fakespace	Steve Ellis Human Systems Technology Branch, NASA Ames Muriel Ross Life Science, NASA Ames, NASA Ames Steve Bryson Numerical Aerospace Simulation, NASA Ames Mary Kaiser Human Systems Technology Branch, NASA Ames


Poster Bullet Session
Presenter	Topic
Jing-Jing Fang	Geometric tools for mechanical assembly in VR
Kent Watsen	Collaboration in VR
Albert A. Rizzo	VR applications for neuropschological Assessment and cognitive rehabilitation
Mohsen Kahani	Collaboration in Persistent Virtual Reality Multiuser Interfaces: Theory and Implementation
Ronald R. Mourant	A virtual environments-based driving simulator

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