Wave Issue 9705 3/14/97 Article 2-01

***Calendar of Events

3D on the Internet

What: "Creating High-Performance 3D Content for the Internet"
When: March 24-25
Where: San Francisco State University Multimedia Lab

The four half-day seminars are being held by Newfire (formerly Axial),
Diamond Multimedia and 3D Labs. An invitation can be requested be
sending email to events@newfire.com with "March Seminar" in the subject
area.

www.newfire.com

New Products at NAB

A number of new products will debut at the upcoming NAB show in Las
Vegas including:

Inscriber Character Generators (booth S3338): Will demonstrate
InscriberCG Supreme and VideoCarte along with the Xtreme real time
animation playback option.

Linker Systems (booth M7633): Showcasing Animation Stand for Mac, PC
and SGI and introducing The Animation Stand - Ink and Paint for Windows
NT.

PC Video Conversion (booth M8044): Demonstrating new HyperConverterCP
scan converter. Will also demonstrate DoubleScan line doubler product
and VIDisplay640 LCD panel interface.

Pinnacle (booth 8658): Introducing DVEXTREME, a Windows NT-based
multiple-channel, real-time image store and retrieval system. This
product will be introduced along with a number of other important
announcements at a reception at 7:30am at Pinnacle's booth in the Las
Vegas Convention Center.

Intergraph: Announcements and demos including: StudioZ - new functions;
ViZfx - new 3D plug-in effects; Desktop Video - introducing a Windows
NT DVE system; RenderGL release 2.0; StudioZ RenderRAX - renderfarm
demo. A special session will be held April 7 at Piero's Restaurant from
3:00-4:00pm (RSVP to cmschan1@ingr.com).

International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia

What: VSMM '97
When: Sept. 10-12, 1997
Where: University of Geneva, Switzerland
Sponsors: International Society on Virtual Systems and
MultiMedia(VSMM), the International Federation for Information
Processing(IFIP) and MIRALab-CUI (University of Geneva)

This third annual conference will cover a number of topics with an
emphasis on multimedia, while also including human interface and
sensing, intelligent systems and robotics, applications, and modeling
and theory.

A call for papers has been issued. Proposals for panels on topics
related to Virtual Systems and Multimedia must be sent to Prof. N.
Magnenat Thalmann (thalmann@cui.unige.ch) before April 20, 1997.

miralabwww.unige.ch/~vsmm97/