From: Timothy Childs Subject: EVENT: VeRGe Event--Agents and Avatars Part II Sept. 26th. Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 13:15:27 +0200 The Virtual Reality Education Foundation (affectionately known as VeRGe) invites you to attend the second event in a two-part series: "Agents, Avatars, and the Digital Self: In Cyberspace, Who Will YOU Be? [Chapter II]" THURSDAY, September 26, 1996 (Full Moon!) 7:00 pm *****PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGE IN TIME***** Exploratorium, San Francisco requested donation, $5 ********Please note the time change. We want to start earlier so we can have a bit more time for announcements and the all important power schnack and schmooze during the break.********* The next VeRGe on Thursday, September 26, at the Exploratorium's McBean Theater, will be the second of our two-part series on agents and avatars. Part I offered a technical focus on avatar creation tools and publishers, and Part II will focus on the philosophical aspects, including the need for standards. This full moon event is sure to get the community howling over the great work that has been poured into the different Avatar specifications. There are two different, yet potentially complementary, Avatar specifications being proposed to you, the VR community, for your scrutiny, input, suggestions and ideas. You will be introduced to the Living Worlds Avatar spec--supported by Paragraph (http://www.paragraph.com ), Blacksun ( http://www.blacksun.com ) and Sony (http://www.sony.com )--and to the Universal Avatar spec from IBM (http://www.ibm.com ), Velocitygames ( http://www.velocitygames.com ), Chaco ( http://www.chaco.com) and Worlds ( http://www.worlds.net ) You can check out the Universal Avatar spec prior to the meeting at http://www.chaco.com/avatar/avatar.html. Following the presentations, you will have an opportunity to participate in asking those thoughtful questions during the panel discussion. The panel will consist of the previous presenters as well as leading VRML developers. So come on down to the Exlporatorium and participate, again, in a historical event. Did someone say demo? It wouldn't be a VeRGe without demos. The busy folks from the ImagiNation Network ( http://www.inngames.com ) will demonstrate CyberPark, their multi-user 3-D virtual world to be launched on AOL later this year. 3rd Dimension Technologies ( http://www.3dexpress.com ) will be wowing you with their 3-D modeling tool that create fully textured 3-D models directly from a few photographs! Plus extra special surprises! VeRGe Netcast For those who can't physically attend VeRGe, once again, we will netcast this event live from the Exlporatorium via CU-SeeMe. You can get the appropriate software and information on how to hook up from the Cornell's CU-SeeMe page. ( http://cu-seeme.cornell.edu/ ) On Thursday, please check out http://www.well.com/~tchilds/verge/netcast.html for the appropriate reflector address(es). Volunteers--do your part! VeRGe needs your help! We need help with a lots of stuff. Besides the need for volunteers to help with the meetings, we need volunteers for: Netcasting--We need someone who is very familiar with cybercasting (CU-SeeMe, MBONE, RealAudio, etc..) to help manage and promote the cybercast events. Videographers--We need skilled folks with video cameras (HI-8 or better) to help document the events. (We would eventually like to fulfill the many requests for videos from the events.) If you can help, contact Timothy via email (timothy@verge.org) at the show. For directions to the Mc Bean Theater, call the Exploratorium's direction line @ 415.561.0399 or surf over to the Big Book map at http://www.bigbook.com/showpage.cgi/18c37ef9-0-0-0?page=bizpage&pkey=3522325 Feel free to distribute this message widely. ------------------------------------------- To receive notices of upcoming VeRGe events, send the message body subscribe verge-events (your email address) to: majordomo@cyberwerks.com VeRGe, a.k.a. Virtual Reality Education Foundation, Inc., is brought to you by Linda Jacobson, Timothy Childs, Peter Rothman, and Benedict O'Mahoney. We founded VeRGe in 1992 to enhance the public's understanding of VR technologies, applications, and pioneers. We hope to see you... ...on the VeRGe....