Syndicate: VRML99 - CALL FOR PARTICIPATION (fwd)

[Inke Arns <inke@berlin.snafu.de>]

Non-member submission from [Zvonimir Bakotin <zone@basis.Desk.nl>]
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 20:18:48 +0100 (GMT+0100)
From: Zvonimir Bakotin <zone@basis.Desk.nl>
To: syndicate@aec.at
Subject: Syndicate: VRML99 - CALL FOR PARTICIPATION (fwd)


CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
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VRML99

the Fourth International Conference on the
Virtual Reality Modeling Language and
Web 3D Technologies

23 - 26 February 1999, Paderborn, Germany

http://www.c-lab.de/vrml99

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The annual VRML Symposium is the worldwide most important event
for the VRML and Web 3D community. Its purpose is to bring together
researchers, developers, product vendors, content creators and
other contributors interested in using or enhancing VRML and
Web 3D technology. The VRML Symposium features courses, workshops,
peer-reviewed papers and panels. It will address current
burning issues in the VRML and the Web 3D community.
The symposium will be further enriched by the famous
Web3D Round-Up and an exhibition which will present
leading edge technology and applications.

Papers

MetaStream (by V. Abadjev, M. del Rosario, A. Lebedev, A. Migdal
            and V. Paskhaver, Metacreations, California)
This talk presents a framework for generating and storing
multi-resolution mesh representations which supports levels of
detail, progressive transmission, compression, selective refinement
and rapid and efficient playback, in particular streaming of 3D data
on the internet. MetaStream was developed at the Real Time Graphics
Lab of MetaCreations.

An Open Virtual Environment for Autonomous Agents Using VRML and Java
(by B. Jung and J.-T. Milde, University of Bielefeld, Germany)
In a course at the University of Bielefeld a virtual environment was
developed which is populated with heterogeneous articulated agents.
Autonomous and instructable agents compete for collecting certain
objects while avoiding obstacles and other agents.

Avatars in LivingSpace
(by M. Wray and V. Belrose, HP Labs, Bristol, UK)
LivingSpace is the name of an implementation of the LivingWorlds
standard for multi-user distributed VRML worlds. LivingSpace was
developed at Hewlett-Packard Labs. In this paper solutions to the
problem of creating behaviors of avatars and coordinating these
behaviors in a distributed environment are presented. In particular
an extension of dead-reckoning is introduced which is based on
velocity, curvature and angular velocity.

A VRML Integration Methodology for Manufacturing Applications
(by S. Ressler and A. Godil, NIST, Maryland)
This talk describes several methods developed at the National
Institute of Standards and Technology for using VRML as the
visualization integration technology for manufacturing simulations.
The resulting type of integrated worlds allows engineering systems
to be visualized and communicated via the Web.

There will be 17 further presentations of papers on topics
like multi-user systems, extensions to VRML, streaming, compression
and applications including arts and museums, tourism, cartography
and CAD (see Program at http://www.c-lab.de/vrml99).


Courses, Workshops and Panels

At VRML99 renown experts will teach courses on multi-user systems,
VRML97 and Java3D. Educational applications of VRML, the Universal
Media Element Library and VRML in Germany are the topics of
workshops held during the conference. We are especially looking
forward to the VRML NG workshop which will discuss proposals
for the future VRML standard. Finally experts will discuss
controversial issues in panels addressing the relation of VRML
and other Web 3D and present competing technologies
and visions for shared virtual worlds.

For further information see: http://www.c-lab.de/vrml99/

The VRML event series is sponsored by ACM SIGGRAPH and ACM SIGCOMM,
and is in cooperation with the Web3D Consortium and the Gesellschaft
für Informatik. Platinum Technology is a Principal Donor to VRML99



Chair:          Christian Bauer, Bauer & Freunde; Stuhlfelden, Austria
Program Chair:  Stephan Diehl, University of Saarland; Saarbruecken,
Germany

Program Co-Chair: Jean-Francis Balaguer, Artemedia; Lausanne,
Switzerland

Program Committee
   Don Brutzman, Naval Postgraduate School; Monterey, USA
   Paolo Carraro, Bell Laboratories; Holmdel, New Jersey, USA
   Steve Carson, GSC Associates; Las Cruces, USA
   Bruce Damer, Digital Space Corp.; USA
   Jens Dauner, Fraunhofer IAO; Stuttgart, Germany
   Gitta Domik, University of Paderborn; Paderborn, Germany
   Ludger Froebel, German Aerospace Estab.; Cologne, Germany
   Christian Geiger, C-LAB; Paderborn, Germany
   Yasuaki Honda, Sony Corp.; Tokyo, Japan
   Joerg Kloss, VRASP Europe; Trier, Germany
   Juergen Landauer, GFT Informationssysteme; Boeblingen, Germany
   Richard Puk, Intelligraphics Incorporated; Carlsbad, USA
   Sandy Ressler, NIST, USA
   Theresa Marie Rhyne, Lockheed Martin, USA
   Maureen Stone, Xerox PARC; Palo Alto, USA
   Kornel Szabo, University of Zurich; Zurich, Switzerland
   Val Watson, NASA Ames Research Center; Mountain View, USA

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