VR World '95 Conference Program
and Registration Information

VR World '95 Conference/Exhibition Update

Get Down To Business At VR World '95

Including Vertical Market Business Conferences on:

• Out-of-Home Entertainment
• Medicine and Disabilities
• Networking and Telecommunications
• Military Distributed Simulations
• Design
• Consumer Games
• Training
• Garage and Low-Cost
• The Internet
• Arts & Culture
• Desktop (Immersive & Non-Immersive)

Sponsored by VR World Magazine and CyberEdge Journal

"The Promise is in Sight"

Now in its sixth year, this ever-growing event draws customers, suppliers, developers, toolmakers, researchers, financiers, entrepreneurs, and end-users together to catalyze VR market growth. Session topics emphasize vertical markets and applications. Day- long panels have been scheduled with the world's leaders in VR market breakdowns: Entertainment (Out-of-Home and In-Home), Design (Industrial and Architectural), Networking (Televirtual Experiences), Medicine, Disabilities, Training and Education. Application developers from one market have rich opportunities to learn from experiences of developers in other market lines at this conference.

All attendees have the opportunity to see and trial-test the latest Virtual Reality technologies on the world's largest VR exhibit floor. The technologies discussed by speakers on the program range from immersive to non-immersive. From low-end garage, to commercial desktop to workstation to supercomputer. Component technologies are also reviewed - including 3D graphics and 3D sound. Over 100 speakers on four simultaneous tracks plus preconference workshops.

Conference Overview

General Conference Program, May 23, 24, 25

Virtual Reality Video Festival, May 23, 7:00 PM -- 9:00 PM

Who Should Attend

• Businesses and organizations currently developing or researching virtual reality markets or products.
• Organizations that are planning the development of virtual reality products or services.
• Businesses that are seeking to integrate VR as a component of their larger product effort, (telecommunications, entertainment, 3D graphics, etc.)
• Representatives of the investment community who are interested in high growth, high technology for both early and late stage deals.
• Professionals who are interested in applying virtual reality to specific business markets.

Book Early

The Complete Conference On CD-ROM

Click on the banners for a more detailed description of each day

Workshop 1
9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
"VR 101: Introduction to Virtual Reality"

Workshop 2
9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
"How to Select, Apply, and Use Headmounted Displays"

Workshop 3
2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
"CDK & Virtual Environment NAVIGATOR World Building Techniques for 3D Studio Modelers"

Workshop 4
9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
"Sense8 Hands on Tutorial"

Workshop 5
9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
"The VREAM Approach to Virtual Reality"

Workshop 6
2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
"Cognitive Issues in Virtual Reality"

Workshop 7
2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
"Superscape"

Welcome and awards ceremony: 9:00 a.m. - 9:15 a.m., Sandra K. Helsel, Ph.D.
Keynote: 9:15 a.m. - 10:00 a.m., "Bringing VR Products to Market" Dr. Thomas Furness III

"A" TRACK

Out-of-Home Entertainment

A1
10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
"Distributed Theme Parks vs. Themed Arcades"

A2
11:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
"The VR Entertainment Business in the Late '90s"

A3
11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
"R.O.I. in Virtual Reality"

A4
1:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
"Beyond Violence in Multiplayer Games"

A5
2:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
"The LBE Equation and How to Make it Work"

A6
2:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
"High Resolution Immersive Experience Design"

A7
3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
"Multi-Player Violent Games: T-Mek and Beyond"

A8
4:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
"CAVE-to-CAVE VR and CAVEMUDs: Current Research"

A9
4:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
"Graphical Cyberspace Communities: A New Online Social Experience"

"B" TRACK

Design

B2
11:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
"Putting VR to Use as a Design Tool: Virtual Prototyping"

B3
11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
"Matshushita's Virtual House"

B4
1:30 p.m. - 1:55 p.m.
" VR Involving the AEC (Architecture/Engineering/Construction)"

B5
1:55 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.
"Virtual Worlds for Industrial design Purposes"

B6
2:15 p.m. - 2:35 p.m.
"Vega-Drive: Benefits in the Automotive Product Development Process"

B7
2:35 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
"ArchiView: Applications in Virtual Architecture"

B8
3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
"PC-Based Cave Systems"

B9
4:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
"Cyberspace Developers Kit"

B10
4:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
"TBA"

"C" TRACK

Designing Virtual Worlds

C2
11:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
"Networked Virtual Reality: Application for Education and the Arts"

C3
11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
"Planning Virtual Environments for Fun or Profit"

C4
12:00 p.m. - 12:30 p.m.
"Designing Virtual Worlds"

Museums And VR

C6
2:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
"Guggenheim Gets Virtual"

C7
2:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
"Apparitions"

C8
3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
"VR Tour of the Cave of Lascoux"

C9
4:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
"The Imperial Message"

C10
4:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
"TBA"

"D" TRACK

VR On The Desktop

D2
11:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
"TBA"

D3
11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
"Research Study: HMD Versus Desktop"

3D Everywhere

D5
2:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
"New Ways of Bringing 3D to the Public"

D6
2:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
"TBA"

3D Sound

D8
4:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
"How to Integrate 3D Sound and 3D Sound Technology"

D9
4:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
"3D Audio Simulation"

Opening: 9:00 a.m. - 9:10 a.m., Sandra K.Helsel,Ph.D.
Business Forum: 9:15 a.m. - 10:00 a.m., Ben Delaney

"A" TRACK

Televirtual Experience: Networked VR

Infrastructure And Design Of Experience

A11
10:55 a.m. - 11:20 a.m.
"The GreenSpace Project: A Transcontinental Shared Virtual Environment"

A12
11:20 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.
"Wide Area Collaborative Virtual Environments: Design and Experience "

A13
11:45 a.m. - 12:10 p.m.
"Televirtuality: An Emerging Communications Infrastructure"

A14
12:10 p.m. - 12:35 p.m.
"Real-Time Facial Analysis for Televirtual Applications"

A15
12:35 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
"Inhabited Reactive Environments as Post Technological Information Webs"

Telecommunications Company Televirtual Services

A17
2:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
"The Greenspace: An American Perspective"

A18
2:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
"The Greenspace: A Japanese Perspective"

A19
3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
"Shared Cooperative Work Environment through Virtual Space"

A20
4:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
"Novel User Interface"

A21
4:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
"Applied Virtual Worlds at MCI"

"B" TRACK

Training And VR

B12
11:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
"Making Mental Models Virtually Real"

B13
11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
"Tomorrow's Teams Today"

Historical Virtual Worlds In Education

B15
1:55 p.m. - 2:20 p.m.
"Virtual Pompeii"

B16
2:20 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.
"The Fortress of Buhem"

B17
2:45 p.m. - 3:10 p.m.
"TBA"

Marketing And Advertising With VR

B19
4:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
"CyberEvent's Experiences with VR for Marketing"

B20
4:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
"TBA"

"C" TRACK

Entertainment Centers

C12
11:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
"Cybermind Centers"

C13
11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
"Virtual World Entertainment: Past, Present and Future"

C14
12:00 p.m. - 12:30 p.m.
"A View of VR Centers from the Historical Perspective to the Arcade Industry"

VR Games For The Home Market

C16
2:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
"Producing Software with an EDGE"

C17
2:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
"What's Different About Games in VR"

Low Cost Virtual Reality

C19
4:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
"Low-Cost Software"

C20
4:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
"Low-Cost Headware"

C21
5:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
"Low-Cost Input Devices"

"D" TRACK

VR And Persons With Disabilities

D11
11:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
"Virtual Reality: An Enabling Technology"

D12
11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
"VR Wheelchair 'Driver's Training' for Children with Cerebral Palsy"

Medicine And The Health Sciences

D14
2:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
"The Evolution of VR in the Medical Sciences: From Satava's Perspective"

D15
2:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
"VR for Use with Parkinson's Disease"

D16
3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
"The Visible Human Project"

D17
3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
"Delivery Room of the Future"

D18
4:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
"Virtual Therapy: Using VR to Treat Fear of Heights"

D19
4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
"VR in the Surgical Field: A Special Panel"

Futures Forum: 9:15 a.m. - 10:00 a.m., Sandra K. Helsel, Ph.D.

"A" TRACK

Military: Distributed Simulations

A23
11:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
"STRICOM, Force XXII Distributed Virtual Reality Projects Overview"

A24
11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
"Synthetic Environments and the Test and Evaluation Process"

A25
12:00 p.m. - 12:30 p.m.
"NPSNET: Networking Large Scale Virtual Environments"

A26
12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
"DIVE Panel Discussion"

A27
1:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
"TASC's Distributed Virtual Reality Projects: MARS and Other Projects"

A28
2:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
"Illusion's Distributed Virtual Reality Projects: ADST and A2ATD"

A29
2:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
"Interactive Agents for Virtual Worlds"

A30
3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
"Overview"

A31
4:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
"TBA"

A32
4:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
"TBA"

"B" TRACK

Financial Market

B22
1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
"Business Models for VR"

Projects Of Interest

B24
4:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
"Cyberhead and Other Projects: Exploring New Presentation Paradigms"

B25
4:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
"VR & Tourism: A Swiss Project"

"C" TRACK

Internet And VR

C23
11:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
"DIASPAR"

C24
11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
"VRML"

VR Online

C26
1:55 p.m. - 2:20 p.m.
"The Internet's sci.virtual-worlds"

C27
2:20 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.
"VR on the WELL"

C28
2:45 p.m. - 3:10 p.m.
"MecklerWeb"

Unique And Promising Networked Services

C30
3:50 p.m. - 4:10 p.m.
"Travels through an Online Trade Show and other Web-Based Virtual Places"

C31
4:10 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
"A Virtual Environment to Support Global Manufacturing (The Virtuosi Project)"

C32
4:30 p.m. - 4:50 p.m.
"The Many Dimensions of Enter TV"

C33
4:50 p.m. - 5:10 p.m.
"Completion and Collaboration in Networked Virtual Worlds"

"D" TRACK

Products To Notice

D21
11:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
"UltraTRAK Motion Capture System"

D22
11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
"XVS: Adding VR to Todays Applications"

D23
1:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
"New dVS and dVISE Features"

D24
2:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
"Vega - VR"

D25
2:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
"TBA"

Virtual Characters

D27
3:50 p.m. - 4:10 p.m.
" Virtual Characters through the Ages"

D28
4:10 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
"TBA" D29
4:30 p.m. - 4:50 p.m.
"Tracking Technologies and Virtual Characters"

D30
4:50 p.m. - 5:10 p.m.
"Ghost in the Machine: Insights from a Virtual Character"

"E" TRACK

Asian Initiatives

E2
11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
"VR on the Indian Continent"

E3
1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
"Developers Meet Toolmakers"

Wrap Up Session For VR '95

To Register, call 1-800-MECKLER (1-800-632-5537) or 203-226-6967 or send e-mail to: vrconf@mecklermedia.com

Registration forms and the complete conference program are available for downloading in the Adobe Acrobat 2.0 PDF (Portable Document File) format for your convenience. You will need the Adobe Acrobat Reader 2.0 or Adobe Exchange 2.0 to load and print this file. If you don't have it you can download the appropriate version from below

NOTE: the following PDFs are temporarily unavailable, they will be available again on Tuesday, May 16, 1995. Sorry for any inconvenience.

Here is the VR '95 Conference Program
ftp://www.mecklerweb.com/pub/conf/vrconf.pdf (371K)

Here is the Attendees Brochure
ftp://www.mecklerweb.com/pub/conf/vrab.pdf (371K)

Here is the Exhibitor Brochure
ftp://www.mecklerweb.com/pub/conf/vreb.pdf (164K)

Here is the Exhibitor Contract
ftp://www.mecklerweb.com/pub/conf/vrebcont.pdf (16K)

Here is the Exhibitor Rate Card
ftp://www.mecklerweb.com/pub/conf/vrebrate.pdf (13K)

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Virtual Reality Video Festival

VR World '95 Conference & Exhibition

Altare Advanced Systems/Orbotron
AP Professional
Ascension Technologies
Atalantis Interactive
BioControl Systems
CGSD-Realtime Graphics
Coryphaeus Software
Crystal River Engineering
CyberDiner
CyberEdge Journal
CyberEvent Group
Cybernet Systems
Deneb Robotics
DIVE Labs (Formerly Avatar Partners)
Division
ENEL
Ferris Productions/CyberTech
FX Design
Gemini Technology
General Reality Corporation
Hash, Inc.
Hewlett Packard
High Technology Careers
Immersion Corporation
InWorld VR
Kaiser Electro-Optics
Lucidity Institute, The
Mecklermedia
Miller Freeman Publications
n-Vision
NuVision Technologies, Inc.
Paradigm Simulations, Inc.
Polhemus
Reality Simulation Systems
Sense8 Corporation
Sensible Devices
StereoGraphics Corporation
StrayLight Corporation
Sun Microsystems
Superscape, Inc.
Synthetic Images, Inc.
Systran Corporation
Virtual I/0
Virtual Images, Inc.
Virtual Max Systems
Virtual Presence, Ltd.
Virtual Reality Monthly
Virtual Technologies
Virtuality Entertainment, Inc.
Vivid Group, The
VREAM, Inc.
VRex, Inc.

Exhibition

Virtual Museum Gallery

To Exhibit call: Marilyn Reed At 203-226-6967, ext: 241 or e-mail: marilyn@mecklermedia.com

Hotel And Travel Information

For All Discounted Hotel And Air Travel Call: The Travel Desk:
Tel: 800-944-9090 or 214-702-1030 Fax: 800-944-0010 or 214-702-1042

Hilton Hotel & Towers: 300 Almaden Blvd., San Jose, CA

• Single: $120.00
• Double: $120.00
• Triple: $135.00
• Quad: $150.00

Hyatt Saint Claire: 302 South Market Street, San Jose, CA

• Single: $105.00
• Double: $105.00

The Fairmont Hotel: 170 South Market Street, San Jose, CA

• Single: $125.00
• Double: $125.00
• 1 Bed Suite: $250.00
• 2 Bed Suite: $375.00

The above hotels also offer complimentary Airport Shuttle Service

Airline Information

Continental Airlines are also offering 10% off the lowest unrestricted fare available to the general public, or 5% discount off their lowest applicable fare. Call 800-468-7022 or the Travel Desk at 800-944-9090, quoting file #M9NPYL.

To Register Call: 1-800-MECKLER or 203-226-6967

Confirmation And Badges

Discounts

Book Early

Government Regulations

On-Site Registration Desk

Cancellations And Substitutions

Note: The sponsors and management of VR WORLD 95 reserve the right to make necessary changes in this program. Every effort will be made to keep presentations and speakers as represented. However, unforeseen circumstances may result in the substitution of a presentation topic or speaker.

Mecklermedia Corporation assumes no liability for the acts of their suppliers nor for the safety of any VR WORLD 95 participant while in transit to or from this event. The total liability during the precise hours of the meeting will be limited to a refund of the delegate fee.

Exhibit Hours

Fax, Phone, Mail Or E-Mail Your Registration Form To:

• Mail: Mecklermedia Conference Management, 20 Ketchum Street, Westport, CT 06880
• Tel: 800-MECKLER (800-632-5537) or 203-226-6967
• Fax: 203-226-6976 or 203-454-5840
• E-mail: vrconf@mecklermedia.com

Registrations sent by fax, e-mail or telephone must be paid by credit card.

Registration includes:

• Participation in any conference session for each day booked. Delegates may switch between session tracks as they choose. This does not apply to Workshops.
• Admission to the exhibit hall - good for all three days ($10 value)
• Morning and afternoon coffee
• The complete conference on CD-ROM!
  This $100 value will be given to all registrants paying $295 or more in registration fees. This CD contains verbatim written transcripts from virtually all sessions (including audience questions and answers), plus speaker biographies and contact information as well as complete exhibitor and product listings. You can locate and review the content of the sessions you attended (or were too busy to attend).
  This CD-ROM includes:
  
  • Verbatim written transcripts and visual presentations from virtually every session and speaker
  • Speaker names, addresses, phone numbers and biographies to simplify contacts after the event
  • An easy-to-use interface, with full-text search and the ability to select and print transcripts
  • Complete listing of all exhibitors, including phone numbers
  • Support for both Windows and Macintosh computers
  • FREE Adobe Acrobat Reader (version 2.0) software

Delegates are responsible for their own hotel and travel arrangements (see Hotel and Travel Information for special show rates)