Thursday, November 20 :
Registration with coffee (8:30 - 9:45)
Welcome (9:45 - 10:15)
Session "Virtual Characters" (10:15 - 12:15)
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Virtual Reality Dept., C-S, Toulouse, France
Tell me that bit again... Bringing interactivity to a
virtual storyteller
IST/INESC-ID, Lisbon, Portugal |
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Computing Science Department, University of Glasgow, U.K.
Centre for Virtual Environments, University of Salford, U.K. / Knowledge Engineering Lab, University of Piraeus, Greece |
Lunch (12:15 - 13:45)
Session "Narrativity and Authoring" (13:45 - 15:45)
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www.idtension.com, Paris, France / LSS ENS-EHESS, Paris, France / LINC - Lab. Paragraphe, Montreuil, France
Liquid Narrative Group, Dept. of Computer Science, North Carolina State University, U.S.A.
INESC-ID, Lisboa, Portugal / IST - Technical University at Lisbon, Portugal
ACASA, University of Pennsylvania, U.S.A. |
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Dept. of Coomunication and Art, University of Aveiro, Portugal / Dept. of Languages and Cultures, University of Aveiro, Portugal
IRIT-GRIC, Toulouse, France |
Session Poster / Demo 1 with coffee (15:45 - 16:30) : 4 demos
Session "Mediation/Interface"
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Digital Studios for Research in Design, Visualisation and Communication, University of Cambridge, U.K.
Instituto Superior Técnico, Intelligent Agents and Synthetic Characters Group, Lisboa, Portugal
Collaborative Visual Computing Laboratory, University of Cape Town, Republic of South Africa |
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Digital Studios for Research in Design, Visualisation and Communication, Cambridge University, U.K.
Barco Simulation Products, Kuurne, Belgium
Georgia Institute of Technology, U.S.A./Georgia State University, U.S.A. |
Cocktail in the Salle des Illustres, City Hall (18:00 - 20:00)
Gala Dinner (20:00 - ...)
Friday, November 21:
Session "Real-Time" (8:30 - 10:30)
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Computer Science Dept., Northwestern University, U.S.A.
CRS4, Pula, Italy / ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy |
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IRISA, Rennes, France |
Session Poster / Demo 2 with coffee (10:30 - 11:15) : 4 demos
Session "Applications" (11:15 - 12:15)
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Using Virtual Reality for "New Clowns"
LaBRI, (Université de Bordeaux 1, ENSEIRB, CNRS) - INRIA
Center for Advanced Visual Studies, MIT, U.S.A./ Japan Science Technology Corporation "Interaction & Intelligence"/ Adaptive Communications Research Laboratories, Japan / Editorial Engineering Laboratory, Japan |
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Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality, Group, IRIT, Toulouse, France
Electronic Visualization Lab., University of Illinois at Chicago, U.S.A. / F.A.B.R.I.CATORS, Milan, Italy
Fraunhofer Institute for Media Communication, Dept. of Virtual Environments, Sankt Augustin, Germany / rmh, Köln, Germany / Vertigo Systems, Köln, Germany |
Lunch (12:15 - 13:45)
Session "Mixed Reality" (13:45 - 14:45 & 15:30 - 17:00)
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Session Poster / Demo 3 with coffee (14:45 -15:30) : 3 Demos
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FH Erfurt, University of Applied Sciences, Erfurt, Germany / Zentrum für Graphische Datenverarbeitung, Darmstadt, Germany
School of Computing and Mathematics, University of Teesside, U.K. / Laboratoire de Télécommunications et Télédétection, UCL, Belgium / Alterface, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Alterface, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium |
Prize Ceremony (17:00 - 17:15)
Keynote Speakers
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"Building virtual actors who can really act" by Prof. Ken Perlin |
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Ken Perlin's research interests include graphics,
animation, and multimedia. In 2002 he received the NYC Mayor's
award for excellence in Science and Technology and the Sokol award
for outstanding Science faculty at NYU. In 1997 he won an Academy
Award for Technical Achievement from the Academy of Motion Picture
Arts and Sciences for his noise and turbulence procedural texturing
techniques, which are widely used in feature films and television. |
Professor
in the Department of Computer Science, and Director of the New
York University Media Research Laboratory and Center for Advanced
Technology.
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"Seizing the Power: Animation and Realtime Hardware" by Kevin Bjorke |
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Kevin
Bjorke is Shading Engineer and evangelist for developer marketing
and content development at NVIDIA Corporation. He was involved
intimately with the creation and use of the Cg shading language
and CgFX format for realtime shading. He has created numerous
shaders, sample scenes, tutorials, educational talks, lab classes,
online videos, tools. He has visited and interfaced with a wide
variety of production studios in both the film and game industries.
He worked with the software and architecture groups of NVIDIA
to bring high-end 3D rendering capabilities into realtime hardware.
He has lectured at many graphics developer events around the US
and the world including Siggraph 2002, Game Developer's Conference
2003, Developer Deep Fry Austin, Iron Developer Tokyo, Gathering
2 and Dawn to Dusk London. He contributed to the book The Cg Tutorial,
and worked directly with the providers of CAD and DCC tools (such
as Maya, SolidWorks, 3DStudio Max, and SoftImage XSI) to ensure
that high-quality realtime shading was available at every 3D artist's
desktop around the world. Previously, he supervised lighting,
camera work, shading and imaging for The Animatrix, Final Fantasy,
and similarly contributed to the films A Bug's Life and Toy Story.
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Sally
Jane Norman is a performing arts theorist and practitioner, Docteur
d’état (Institute of Theatre Studies, Paris III),
author of numerous papers including new media studies commissioned
by UNESCO and the French Ministry of Culture, involved since 1996
in EU R&D programmes (esprit and IST), director of experimental
platforms testing creative use of digital tools in live performance
(International Institute of Puppetry, Charleville-Mézières
; Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music, Amsterdam ; Zentrum für
Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe ; European Festival of
Young Digital Creation, Valenciennes ; Ecole supérieure
de l’image, Angoulême). Director General of the Ecole
supérieure de l'image, Angoulême/ Poitiers, she directs
the " Digital Arts " doctoral programme linking ESI
with the Universities of Poitiers and La Rochelle in the Poitou-Charentes
region.
Other Demonstrations:
Holografika's holographic display.
Artificial three dimensional visualisation is existing for long time. It is holography. This invention set the minimum requirements for 3D visualisation. Viewers should see a 3D image on the screen, as they would see in reality. Systems that cause any discomfort or restrain the viewer will not be broadly accepted. Several announcements were made about the invention of the ultimate 3D display but none of these are "true" 3D display solutions, since none of them comply with all the following criteria:
- No glasses needed, the 3D image can be seen with unassisted naked eye
- Viewers can walk around the screen in a wide field of view seeing the objects and shadows moving continuously as in the normal perspective. It is even possible to look behind the objects, hidden details appear, while others disappear (motion parallax)
- Unlimited number of viewers can see simultaneously the same 3D scene on the screen, with the possibility of seeing different details
- Objects appear behind or even in front of the screen like on holograms
- No positioning or head tracking applied
- Spatial points are addressed individually
- Objects can be animated
HoloVizio is the first and only operating 3D display that meets all the above requirements simultaneously.
Immersion will present the first laser device projecting information onto the retina
The Nomad™ Personal Display System provides users with the ability to achieve an entirely new level of man-machine interface. Worn in front of the eye, the Nomad System displays images and data that appear to the users to be floating directly in front of them. It is as if the very air before you becomes a 17-inch computer screen.
The Nomad™ System uses a laser based light source to display images directly onto the user's retina. It superimposes data or images on what is viewed without hampering the user's vision. This is extremely advantageous to users who require access to information directly at their point of task. The Nomad™ System eliminates the viewing and performance display limitations of large and bulky stationary computer monitors or small and unreadable portable devices.
Immersion will demonstrate a 6x2 meters POWERwall powered by several genlocked GeForce Quadro FX 3000G boards
Immersion will present the latest version of the THE NVIDIA QUADRO FX 3000G SERIES WITH POWERWALL CAPABILITIES.
Designed For Full-Scale Models, the NVIDIA Quadro FX 3000 By PNY delivers advanced features for very high-resolution visualization on wide screens.
F.A.B.R.I.CATORS's CityCluster."From the Renaissance to the Gigabits Networking Age"
CITYCLUSTER is a Virtual-reality high networking matrix with original technological features, navigation, interactivity and graphic style. The framework, was developed according to a creative method of tracing diverse concepts and systems of collection of cities, urban ambiences and virtual spaces interconnected by a high-speed network which enables participants in remote locations to interact in shared environments. The framework can be expanded, modified and enriched, in accordance with the nature and typology of the environment to be incorporated.
Visitors, with their virtual bodies become active protagonists in City Cluster's virtual terrain. Free to communicate, intervene, share viewpoints, exchange knowledge, ideas, buildings, objects, build a new share virtual ambience, recreate a new city or design their own urban environment. Meta-Net-Page, a virtual-reality networking interface display, was designed and implemented ad hoc for City Cluster. Assists the visitor in finding, seeing, becoming informed instantaneously of the point at which he is located, detect information, images, details that are invisible zones or intangible realities for the naked eye, and permit the user to "teleport" to the location shown on the view panel.. In addition, MNP allow the user to "grab" onto a building shown within the panel and move it to another location or even to another city in real time over the net.
The first CITYCLUSTER virtual-reality networked application," From the Renaissance to the Megabyte Networking Age, offers an actively creative experience in the language of interactive design through the use of multiple layers of interactive narrative. The visitors can experience an interactive journey departing from the time of the Renaissance until arriving to the super broadband Networking and Electronic Age, for this application two virtual reality environments were created: Florence metaphorically represents the "Renaissance Age", the other related to Chicago representing the "Gigabits Age". Each virtual city is inhabited by a group of avatars: David, Venus, and Machiavelli in Florence, and Mega, Giga, and Picasso in Chicago.
France Telecom's conversational agents.
The design of a 3D Embodied Conversational Agent with which one can interact in a natural way requires at least the following modules to run in real time: speech recognition, dialogue, text-to-speech (TTS) and animation engines.
We propose this kind of system where all the modules are embedded in a generic network- based architecture. Speech recognition, dialogue and TTS are on a server while the avatar animation engine and the audio rendering modules are on the client. The avatar animation is driven by speech phonemes provided by the TTS and by behavior tags provided by the dialogue engine. The modules running on the client have been designed to be able to run on both PDAs and mobile phones.
We will present a demonstration with an interactive 3D Embodied Conversational Agent, Nestor, to help find a restaurant in Paris