Meeting the network: Laval Virtual

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We are glad to introduce one of the corporate members of our international network: Laval virtual.
Laval Virtual joined EuroVR Association in 2014, and in the 20 years of its existence, this organization has established itself as a major facilitator for institutions active in the VR/AR and immersive techniques sector. It gathers and leads a community of professionals through the organization of events and conference programmes in Europe and Asia and provides various information services.

From 20th to 24th March 2019, virtual and augmented reality professionals from around the world will gather in Laval, France, for the 21st Laval Virtual show.
The 10,000 professional visitors expected, experts, savvy or keen to learn about immersive technologies, will be able to learn, interact and discover the numerous surprises that this leading international show has in store.

Last year at Laval Virtual 2018, the show welcomed over 320 exhibitors spanning 9,000 m2, involving over 150 speakers and attracting more than 18,500 visitors over 5 days.

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Journal “Frontiers in Robotics and AI”: call for contributions

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Are you interested in contributing to an open-access article collection on: “Emergent Technologies for Cultural Heritage and Tourism Innovation”? Don’t miss this chance.
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In collaboration with the journal Frontiers in Robotics and AI, the EuroVR Members Jolanda Tromp (PhD – SocialVR; Institute of Research and Development, Duy Tan University Da Nang, Vietnam) & Matthieu Poyade (Glasgow School of Art Glasgow, United Kingdom) are bringing together a selected group of international experts to contribute to an open-access article collection on: “Emergent Technologies for Cultural Heritage and Tourism Innovation”.

Submission

Will you be interested in submitting a manuscript?
The deadline for manuscripts’ submission is June, 3rd. As manuscripts are peer-reviewed and published on a rolling basis, you are welcome to submit your paper any time sooner. Accepted manuscripts may incur into Article Processing Fees ranging from 450 to 1,035 USD, depending on article type.
For any questions or concerns regarding submission:

AIDAA: Symposium “Human Centred Design for passenger’s enhanced comfort in Aircraft cabin”

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On 9-12 September in Rome, it will take place the symposium on “Human Centred Design for passenger’s enhanced comfort and wellbeing in Aircraft cabin” during the XXV International Congress of the AIDAA (Italian Association of Aeronautics and Astronautics).

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Workshop on Semantic 3D Content (Eurographics-EuroVR)

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EuroVR will contribute to the conference Eurographics (Genova, 6-10 May 2019) with a workshop on Semantic 3D content (6 May 2019).

The workshop attempts to foster and support the increasing development, use, and utility of semantic 3D technologies for researchers, application developers, domain experts as well as for end users. This includes semantic creation of interactive 3D content, robust and versatile semantic 3D content representation and delivery standards as well as semantic presentation and interaction techniques enabling development of user-friendly 3D/VR/AR applications.

The goal of the workshop is to share innovative and creative ideas that enable development of semantic 3D applications for a wide range of 3D environments, including the web, mobile as well as virtual and augmented reality (VR & AR) setups.

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Meeting the network: Haption

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We want to inaugurate the new category “Meeting the network” with one of the founding member of EuroVR Association: Haption.

Haption is a company which designs, manufactures and sells hardware and software solutions based on force-feedback. Founded in 2001, the company partners with the most advanced leaders to provide professional level force-feedback solutions for medical, robotic, nuclear and industrial applications. Haption has a lot of interest in Virtual Reality where their haptic device brings the sense of contact inside Virtual Environments, a thing no other technology can claim to bring.

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From VR to XR Expo 2019 – 3,4 July 2019
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It is time again: on 3-4. July 2019, the XR Expo takes place in Stuttgart (Germany).  The focus of the event is on professional applications in industry, architecture, trading, medicine and crafting in virtual, augmented and mixed reality.

For the 2019 edition, VR expo has changed its name in XR Expo to put the focus on mixed reality technologies. XR Expo aims to be the community and meeting point for industry users, technology providers, content service providers, and researchers:

” There are now a number of fairs dealing with VR and ar, but does not offer this quality and abundance of solutions that can be used practically in companies.”
Christoph Runde, VDC CEO and XR Expo Co-Organizer

For more information visit: www.xr-expo.com
For questions and interest to be part of the XR Expo, please contact the XR Expo Team: info@xr-expo.com

Laval Virtual 2019: Exhibition and Conference on immersive technologies

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Laval Virtual 2019, the International Exhibition and Conference on VR/AR & Immersive Techniques, gets to the 21st edition, which will take place on 20 – 24 March 2019.

Since 1999, Laval Virtual is the European leader in the New Technologies sector and uses of Virtual in Industry, Marketing, Heritage, Medicine, Training and many more fields.
Every year, the Laval Virtual Centre hosts an exhibition, with more than 350 exhibitor and 20.000 attendees per year, and a conference which aims to highlight the trends and prospects of the immersive technologies.

Click here and visit the official website for further information.

 

 

Salento AVR: Call for papers (deadline February 15,2019)

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Salento AVR, the International Conference on Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality and Computer Graphics, opens the call for papers (deadline February 15, 2019).

This conference, which will take place in Santa Maria al Bagno (Italy) on June 24-27, 2019, intends to bring together the community of researchers from academia and industry, computer scientists, engineers, physicians in order to share points of view, know-how, experiences and scientific and technical results related to state-of-the-art solutions and technologies on virtual and augmented reality applications, computer graphics, and games.

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3 PhD positions at the University of Hamburg (Department of Informatics)

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Are you looking for a new opportunity in the field of research?

The Human-Computer Interaction research group in the Department of Informatics at the University of Hamburg (Germany) has several fully-funded open research positions available:

 

How to apply

If you are interested, please apply by November, 15th, 2018, and send your application to Mrs. Antje Lünstedt <luenstedt@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>.

EuroVR2018: everything you need to know

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EuroVR 2018 Conference was a great success. The event, which took place on October 22-23 at the IET Savoy Place in London, was focused on novel Virtual Reality (VR) up-to Mixed Reality (MR) technologies, including software systems, display technology, interaction devices, and applications.

The programme involved two excellent keynotes from science and industry:
Rob Lindeman, Professor of Human-Computer Interaction and the Research Leader of the HIT Lab New Zealand at the University of Canterbury, NZ who presented his future vision of immersive technologies based on 25 years’ experience.
Luciana Carvalho, an industrial innovator and tech evangelist, presented her discovery of VR/AR which has led to a number of novel start-up companies and international recognition.

The conference ended with the final prizes. The work awarded are:

  • Best scientific/Technical paper award: “Structure-aware 3D Hand Pose Regression from a Single Depth Image”(short paper) – Jameel Malik, Ahmed Elhayek, Didier Stricker;
  • Best industrial paper award: “Immersive Applications of Industrial Digital Twins” – Jonathan Eyre and Chris Freeman;
  • Best poster award: “Using Augmented Reality guides for insertion task: a quantitative study” – Nawel Khenak, Jean-Marc Vézien and Patrick Bourdot;
  • Best demo award: “Supporting unemployed with VR: virtual internship project” – Ekaterina Prasolova-Førland, Mikhail Fominykh.

 

We hope you can support the Association at EuroVR 2019 (16th edition) at the TalTech University in Talinn on 23 – 25 October 2019.