From: Simon Bore Subject: EVENT: London Virtual Reality Group Meeting Date: Wed, 08 May 1996 17:04:26 +0100 Message-ID: <3190C60A.4F13@dial.pipex.com> Organization: Hucom *************************************** The London Virtual Reality Group (LVRG) *************************************** Below is the agenda for the next meeting. I am pleased to announce that we have speakers from: Mel Slater's 'Presence' research group at UCL, Superscape and Virtual Presence. This message will be posted to several areas on the net. Apologies to those who receive multiple copies. Ultimately we aim to only post to the LVRG mailing list. NB If you are planning to attend the meeting contact Simon (simon_bore@dial.pipex.com) so that you can be put on the 'Attendees list'. Unless you are on this list The City University security staff are not able to admit you to the meeting. *Eveyone is welcome* For information about this and future meetings join the LVRG mailing list: http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists-k-o/lvrg/ You can also find further information at our web site: http://dougal.derby.ac.uk:80/lvrg/ The meeting is being held in: Room A529 The College Building City University, Northampton Square, London EC1V OHB Directions to the meeting are as follows: Tube Angel Nearest tube to the University is the Angel on the Northern line. Barbican station is also within walking distance. >From the Angel, turn left at exit and walk straight down past trafficlight s and along St. John Street - about 5 minute walk. There is an entrance for the university on St. John Street. This provides access to the College Building which is where the meeting will be held. Ask at reception for the LVRG meeting in Room A529. Barbican >From Barbican, turn left at exit and then proceed north along Aldersgate street and then Goswell road. Turn off Goswell road onto Sebastian street for Northampton Square where you will find the main university entrance - about 15 minute walk. At the main entrance ask for the LVRG meeting, Room A529 in the College building. Car There is limited metered parking near the university at Spencer street and Northampton square. These are 4 hour meters at A32 an hour. Anyone who needs additional information please contact Kulwinder Kaur: Centre for HCI Design, School of Informatics, City University, Northampton Square, London EC1V OHB Tel: 0171 477 8427 ext. 4033 Fax: 0171 477 8859 E-mail:dj524@city.ac.uk Regards, Simon -- Simon Bore Hucom human communications t 0171 609 3450 f 0171 609 3420 e simon_bore@dial.pipex.com ************************************************************** London VR Group Group meeting Time: 6.30-9pm Date: Tuesday, 14th May Venue: The College Building, City University, London ************************************************************** Thanks to The Virtual Reality Society who are sponsering this meeting. For information about the society see http://www.enc.hull.ac.uk/CS/VRS/ Talks will be approximately 20 mins long with 10 mins for questions. 6.30pm Informal discussion, wine and food 6.45pm Welcome + meeting overview by Simon Bore 6.50pm 'VR and the Internet: an interface to Cyberspace' by Roger Frampton (Superscape: http://www.superscape.com). Roger will be bringing along a Supercape system to illustrate his talk and allow members some 'hands on' experience. 7.20pm 'An example of VR and the control of robotic vehicles' by David Hendon (Virtual Presence: http://www.vrweb.com/). Using some of the latest technology (VRS FS5 HMD, Polhemus FASTRAK, 'flying joystick', Intergraph 200MHz Pentium Pro with OpenGL graphics acceleration, Sense8 WorldToolKit and Windows NT) David will be demonstrating how it is possible to control a robotic device from within a VR world/scene. David will also talk about why this particular collection of hard/software was selected. 7.50pm Break: drinks/informal discussion 8.05pm 'Presence': a summary of research at UCL by Anthony Steed (UCL: http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/M.Slater/). 8.35pm Break: drinks/informal discussion 8.45pm Group organisation: Election of chair Election of committee Web Site Next meeting 9pm Finish If you have any questions please contact Simon Bore on the details above.