***Conferences and Events
1997 Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics
Registration open now
Conference dates: 27 - 30 April 97 in Providence, RI
www.research.microsoft.com/research/Symp3d.htm
1997 Symposium on Virtual Reality Software & Technology
Date: September 15 - 17, 1997
Location: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL),
Lausanne, Switzerland
Sponsored by: ACM SIGCHI and SIGGRAPH (tentative)
Call for papers: All technical aspects of virtual reality
and related technologies
Papers Due: April 7, 1997
Call for tutorials: Proposals for tutorials on topics
related to virtual reality and interactive 3D computer
graphics
Tutorial proposals due: April 15, 1997
ligwww.epfl.ch/~thalmann/vrst97.html
Virtual Reality WorldWide Conference
Date: April 2-5, 1997
Location: Westin Santa Clara Hotel, Santa Clara, CA
Cost: $398 and up
More than 3,000 attendees are expected, along with 60 speakers and 50
exhibiting VR companies. Topics include high payback applications of
VR, using VR in health and medicine, tools for developing VR, Internet
applications of VR, VRML, Social VR applications. The speakers include
keynoters Mark Pesce, Jon Peddie, financier Patricia Glovsky, VR
veteran Mark Bolas, pioneer Myron Kreuger, well-known author and
commentator Galen Brandt, and many others.
www.cyberedge.com/VRWW.html
Free Softimage Training at NAB
Softimage has announced that they will provide several free hands-on
training sessions at NAB '97 in Las Vegas by a Softimage Certified
Instructor. The two topics available are "Introduction to Animation
Using Softimage 3D," and "Softimage 3.7 Upgrade."
For more information email:
sampler@softimage.com
or fax (514) 845-5676
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