[IEEE-bhpjobs] 1st Annual Virtual Reality Jam Session

[Walter Heger]

  I am hosting a VR jam session this week (Thursday night and Friday
all
day).  This is very much a "drop in" event.  Please attend as you are
able.

David Bullock, the architect of the DiVE will be on-hand throughout the
entire event to answer any questions.

Keep an eye on http://vis.duke.edu/jam_session.html for the most
current schedule.

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1st Annual Virtual Reality Jam Session

The Duke Immersive Virtual Environment (DiVE) is a new Virtual Reality
facility located in the Fitzpatrick Center, at the heart of Duke's West
Campus. The DiVE offers full control over a user's visual and acoustic
sensory input, interactive response to a user's motion and actions, and
records all events and interactions that occur within the space. For
these reasons, the DiVE is an ideal system for fully immersive
simulation and cognitive studies, and is ideal for verifying 3D
structure when comparing models with experimental data.

This Virtual Reality (VR) jam session is an open forum for VR experts
from around the world to share their applications and knowledge with
each other and the Duke community. The VR jam session will provide
examples on what can be done in a system such as ours, and inspire new
thinking and collaboration on what could be done with this very unique
resource.

Rachael Brady
  Director, Visualization Technology Group

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Schedule of Public Events

Thursday, November 10th

6-9pm | Welcoming Reception | FCIEMAS Atrium
  Join us for hors d'oeurves and good company as we kick off the VR Jam
Session. The DiVE will be staffed and open for people to experience
different virtual worlds.

Friday, November 11 th

9am-Noon | Open VR Jam Sessions | DiVE (1617A FCIEMAS) and 1411 FCIEMAS
  Jam Session Participants will be installing and testing their
applications. This time period is set aside for the Duke community to
come experience these virtual worlds. Please head on over as your
schedule permits and see what is being tested.

Noon ~V1pm | Visualization Friday Forum | D106 LSRC
  Bill Sherman (Desert Research Institute) will be speaking on
different
navigation and interaction techniques.

1-6pm | Invited Talks FCIEMAS Auditorium, Side B
	~U 	 1:15-2pm Patrack Violante (Advanced Machinery Systems)
  				Experiences at the Office of Naval Surface Warfare
	~U 	2-2:45pm Ron Kriz (Virginia Tech)
  				Using the CAVE at Virginia Tech (this CAVE has a motion platform
in the floor - very cool)
	~U 	2:45-3:15 BREAK
	~U 	3:15-3:45 George Francis (Mathematics, UIUC)
				Using the UIUC CUBE for visualizing 3D manifolds
	~U 	3:45-4:15 Jim Crowell (Integrated Systems Lab, UIUC)
  				Experiences from running cognitive experiments in the UIUC CUBE
	~U 	4:15-4:45 Camille Goudeseunne (Integrated Systems Lab, UIUC)
  				Audio display and interaction methods in a 6-sided CAVE
	~U 	4:45-5:30 Daniel Keefe (Brown University)
  				Cave Paint ~V a 3D painting application
	~U 	5:30 Closing

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