From: Stephan Elliott <72002.1121@compuserve.com>
Subject: CONF: Rocky Mtn VR Conference, Boulder, Colorado (USA), Oct 2-3, 1993
Date: 24 Jul 93 17:28:36 EDT



VSpace Presents

The Rocky Mountain
Virtual Reality Conference

Co-sponsored by 
The NASA Mid-continent Tech Transfer Center
The Colorado R&D Consortium
The Boulder Technology Incubator

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 26, 1993

The Rocky Mountian Virtual Reality Conference will be held on the
weekend of October 2nd and 3rd in Boulder, Colorado at the Clarion
Harvest House.

The purpose of the conference is twofold. First to present a wealth of
useful and current information about virtual reality, and second, to
provide a place where people with similar interests can meet and find
ways to interact on projects, plans and business.

Cost: 

Registrations received prior to 5:00 p.m. September 15th: $225.
Registrations received after 5:00 p.m. September 15th: $275.

Registration includes lunches both days and dinner on Saturday.

Presentations:

Access to the Unexpected by Pat Wagner of Pattern Research
A Short History of VR by Steve Elliott of VLabs
How to Build Your Own VR Lab by Maria Rudolph of VLabs
World Building for the Layperson by Randall Walser
Real World Applications by Ben Delaney of CyberEdge Journal
NCAR's Virtual Reality Model of Stapleton Airport by Gerry Wiener

Building a Virtual World - a panel with

        Jaron Lanier - The Inventor of the term Virtual Reality
        Paulo Soleri - City Architect and founder of Arcosanti
        Socrates - Philosopher
        Lucy Vento - US West
        Kim Dority - Jones Intercable

In-house parallel computer conference:

This conference will feature a computer conference running
simultaneously with the other speeches and exhibits. Through an
in-house computer bulletin board system, attendees will be able to ask
questions of speakers through e-mail, and contact other attendees with
similar interests. The computer system will house the proceedings of
the presentations and a directory of virtual reality hardware,
software and literature.

Exhibits:

        Direct access to NASA database of licensable technology 
        Virtual reality workstation for less than $10,000
        Virtual reality workstation for $30,000
        Virtual reality workstation for money is no object
        Voice recognition computer interface 
        Liquid Crystal color head mounted display 
        3D position sensor
        VR books & magazines for sale
        
For more information, contact:

        Steve Elliott or Reeves Little
        VSpace, Inc., Boulder's Virtual Reality Center.
        1919 14th St., Suite 330, Boulder, CO 80302
        (303) 440-0442, fax: (303) 440-0462