From: diderot@hitl.washington.edu (Toni Emerson) Subject: ADMIN: Special Interest Groups in the FAQ I'm adding a section "Special Interest Groups" to the FAQ. Below is the organization section from IRVR, Information Resources in Virtual Reality, http://www.hitl.washington.edu/projects/knowledge_base/irvr/irvr.html#Organizati ons _Organizations_ _Andrew's VEE-AR Club_ c/o Andrew or Tom Hayward, 624 Jackson Street, Stoughton, WI 53589 _BCS Virtual Reality Group_ An ongoing forum for bringing scientists and developers together with VR enthusiasts/potential users who do not normally attend VR-industry gatherings. The Boston Computer Society is the world's largest non-profit, independent computer user group. Contact Paul Matthews (pgm@world.std.com), The Virtual Reality Group of The Boston Computer Society; Building 1400, One Kendall Square, Cambridge, MA USA 02139. Telephone: 617-252-0600. _Chicago VRSIG_ (Virtual Reality Special Interest Group) Contact: Nina Adams, 3952 Western Ave, Western Springs, Chicago, IL 60558. Tel: (708) 246-0766 E-mail: 71052.1373@compuserve.com. _Cyber Society_, 3336 Richmond Ave. #226, Houston, TX 77098-3022. Tel: 713-520-5020, Fax: 713-520-7395, E-mail: specdyn@well.sf.ca.us _Distributed Simulations Applications Research Consortium_ 1320 18th Street, San Francisco, CA 94107. Tel: 415-861-1317/Fax: 415-431-9368. Tom Hargadon - Managing Director, Carl Eugene Loeffler - President. _Edinburgh Virtual Reality Special Interest Group_ Contact: email vr-sig@ed.ac.uk _GRV - Grupo ded Realidade Virtual ("Virtual Reality Group")_ "Escola Politecnica"- University of Sao Paulo - Brazil Helio Guerra Vieira, PhD - Director E-Mail: grv@dee.poli.usp.br Phone: 55 11 2112976 Fax: 55 11 8137415 Grv is a group that is studying two diferent areas of VR: Telepresence and Computer Graphics. _Los Angeles VRSIG (Virtual Reality Special Interest Group)_ Contact Virtual Ventures/Dave Blackburn, 1300 The Strand, Suite A, Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 Tel: 310-545-0369 E-mail: breeder@well.sf.ca.us. _SigVR_ SigVR is the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group for Virtual Reality A group of indivduals interested in creating low-cost virtual reality hardware and software. URL=http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/sigvr/ _UK Virtual Reality Special Interest Group (UK VR-SIG)_ If you wish to join the UK VR-SIG then send an e-mail message to R.Hollands@sheffield.ac.uk or to S.M.Clark@lut.ac.uk you will be added to the group's mailing list and will be informed of future events. The UK VR-SIG's e-mailing list is the primary means of communication between the group's members. At present it contains e-mail addresses for over 80 active VR researchers and users in the UK. If you have any information that you would like to have posted to the list then please e-mail it to vr-sig-request@lut.ac.uk. URL=http://www.crg.cs.nott.ac.uk/ukvrsig/ _VE Sig_ The VE-SIG is a special interest group of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES). The purpose of the VE-SIG is to focus on humans in connection with virtual environments systems. URL=http://vered.rose.utoronto.ca/HFESVE.html _Virtual Reality Educational Foundation, VeRGe Inc_ An all-volunteer endeavor organized and hosted by Linda Jacobson, Timothy Childs and Peter Rothman. VeRGe meetings are informal and fun. Our primary goal is to educate--to enhance the public's understanding and appreciation of virtual reality. We usually meet once a month. At our meetings we exchange ideas and new information, enjoy presentations and hands-on demos, and do lots of networking. No technical expertise is required: everyone is welcome! To access our electronic mailing list, send your e-mail address to . To join our snail- mailing list, call 415-826-4716. VeRge, 16050 Kings Creek Rd., Boulder Creek, CA 95006. Contact: Linda Jacobsen (E-mail: lindaj@well.sf.ca.us) and Peter Rothman (E-mail: avatar@well.sf.ca.us). _Virtual Reality Society: The International Society for VR Systems, Environments and Applications_ Contact: The Virtual Reality Society PO Box 316 Haywards Heath West Sussex, RH17 5YA U.K. E-mail:vrs@dcs.hull.ac.jk. Fax: 44-444-41-47-92 URL= http://web.dcs.hull.ac.uk/VRS _The Virtual Worlds Society_ 4739 University Way, Suite 1628, Seattle, WA 98105 The Virtual Worlds Society is a non-profit, educational organization dedicated to the development and application of computing and communication technologies that will link minds globally and will unlock the power of human intelligence and ingenuity into the 21st century. Contact: Joel Orr E-mail: JOEL_ORR@mcimail.com Tel: 1-800-vws-7711 URL=http://www.hitl.washington.edu/consortium/VWS/ _VR Alliance for Students and Professionals (VRASP)_ PO Box 4139,Highland Park, New Jersey 08904-4139. E-mail: kaugust@caip.rutgers.edu or 71033.702@compuserve.com. URL=http://www.vrasp.org/vrasp/ VRASP has supplies ranging from demo disks ($2) to dual gloves, glasses, software, connectors for $285. Membership dues are $30/annually, you get membership, bimonthly newsletter, and purchasing privileges. _VR Awareness Consortium_ Norman Oklahoma. Tel: 405-447-3276. _VR User Group_ London, UK. Tel: 44-81-318-4204. Additions, changes, etc. should be sent to scivw@hitl.washington.edu. I will post them and also make the additions to the FAQ. Thanks. Toni C. Emerson Human Interface Technology Lab Research Consultant Moderator, sci.virtual-worlds Mail: FJ-15, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195 Tel: 206-616-1423/Fax:206-543-5380 Email: temerson@hitl.washington.edu URL=http://www.hitl.washington.edu/people/diderot/