Events

The 3DTV-Conference will be held in Turkey on May 16-18 2011. From the call of papers: "Capturing 3D scenery, processing the captured data for storage and transmission, and displaying the result for creating 3D visual sensation are the main functional components of a 3DTV system. 3DTV-CON 2011 is the 5th in a series of successful conferences bringing together researchers and developers with diverse experience and activity in distinct, yet complementary, areas in relation to 3D television.

The conference involves a wide range of disciplines including image and video processing, computer vision and graphics, telecommunications, electronics, optics and physics. Professionals from these areas are cordially invited to attend 3DTV-CON 2011 and take part in its activities. The conference

The Immersive Education Initiative opened early registration for iED SUMMIT 2011 which will be hosted at the Boston College from May 13-15. From the press release: "The Immersive Education Initiative today opened early registration for iED SUMMIT 2011 ("iED 2011"). Boston College will host the three-day iED Summit from May 13-15 through special arrangement with the Woods College of Advancing Studies at Boston College. Early registration, and associated individual and group discounts, will close this December.

This hypergridbusiness article reports founders of teleXLR8, a discussion program conducted in the Teleplace virtual environment, are hoping that the project becomes the next TED for virtual worlds. From the article: "Founders of teleXLR8, a discussion program conducted in the Teleplace virtual environment, are hoping that the project becomes the next TED for virtual worlds.

Teleplace, Inc. is one of the leading providers of enterprise-grade, behind-the-firewall, fully immersive virtual collaborative environments.

According to teleXLR8 organizer Giulio Prisco, Teleplace’s built-in multi-user videoconferencing, voice, and powerful collaboration tools, makes it a good fit for the project.

The Immersive Technology Summit will be hosted in Los Angeles October 21, 2010. Here's a promotional video about the event. Check out the agenda of speakers and exhibitors:
8:00am Registration & Morning Refreshments
9:00am Welcome Ken Rutkowski & Harold Tan
9:10am Immersive Collaboration Jody Turner (Culture Of Future)
9:25am HMD Integration Fred Nikgohar (Robo Dynamics)
9:40am I-Cocoon Tino Schaedler (Nau)
9:55am Using AR for Social Impact Bonnie Buckner (Imagined Communities)
10:10am Virtual Choir Eric Whitacre
10:15am Panel Discussion – Immersive Organizations Alex McDowell (5D), Ed Lantz (IMERSA), Kate McCallum (C3), Aaron Walsh (Media Grid)
10:30am Refreshment Break & Exhibitor Showcase
11:15am Video Immersive Playtime

Technarte, the only European Conference dedicated to the fusion of Art & Technologies, will celebrate its V Edition in Bilbao on the 15th and 16th of April. This conference is a showroom for the most innovative and striking disciplines of the current artistic and technological trends, as the virtual worlds, augmented reality, nanotechnology and nanoart, or mobile tagging. Technarte also includes the interactive architecture in public spaces, as new seminar integrated within the conference, called Bilbao Interaktive.

Tomorrow starts AV Festival 10, the biennial international Festival of electronic arts, taking place from 5-14 March 2010. "The Festival theme is energy: a universal force that connects, transforms and renews life. Exploring energy from scientific, technological, environmental and spiritual perspectives we present work that resonates across NewcastleGateshead, Sunderland, Middlesbrough, and beyond.

From the PRWeb website: "The largest exhibition of modeling, simulation and virtual reality in the world is scheduled to open in Orlando on November 30. Featuring nearly 500 exhibitors from around the world and encompassing over 200,000 square feet of exhibition space, the event, called the Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference I/ITSEC points the way to the future for the entire M&S industry.

The 2nd International Workshop on Blending Physical and Digital Spaces on the Internet will be held in conjunction with the Future Internet Symposium 2009, September 1-3, in Berlin. From the OneSpace 2009 website: "One of the most important effects of the Internet and of the Web has been to relax spatial and temporal constraints on human activities – the so called “space-time collapse” – allowing fast global access to information as well as to physical resources and services.

This LA Times Travel article takes a look at a high-tech show based on a virtual map of the ancient Rome. Frome the article: "It’s back to the future — or is that forward to the past? — at a theater near the Coliseum where “3-D Rewind Rome” opens on Nov. 20. The high-tech, virtual-reality program is aimed at introducing visitors to ancient Rome in a vivid and exciting way to prepare them for touring the 2,000-year-old city.

Spectators don special 3-D glasses for the 30-minute program that uses some 60,000 virtual characters — senators, plebeians, even vestal virgins — brought to life using some of the same kinds of technology that created “The Lord of the Rings.”

This press release reports Dassault Systèmes announced that its 3DVIA brand for lifelike 3D product experiences will be showcasing the latest in highly-interactive 3D and virtual reality technology at the SIGGRAPH 2008 Conference. From the press release: "Joined by many of its technology partners in its booth, #1217, 3DVIA will provide attendees with an exciting look at the 3D advancements enabled by its 3DVIA Virtools application development platform.