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- From: rlm@Hudson.Stanford.EDU (Robert L. Miller)
- Subject: Re: VR Videotapes (From Producer of VR '90 Conf. Tapes)
- Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1991 20:20:58 GMT
- Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
-
-
-
- I filmed and produced the Virtual Reality '90 tape set for Meckler
- Publishing. I offer the readers of this group a different point of
- view from Mike Gigante's posting.
-
- I will first list the tapes--the object of this discussion--then
- respond to Gigante's message. At the end, I have included a general
- listing of VR tapes available on the market.
-
-
- Virtual Reality '90
- December 10, 11, 1990
- San Francisco, CA
-
- There are 3 tapes. Each 2 hours in length.
-
- THEORY Keynote Address: "Shaping Cultural
- Consciousness with Artificial Reality"
- Myron Krueger, Ph.D.
- Artificial Reality Corp. 30 min.
- (audio is sub-optimal for this talk,
- but coherent.)
-
- "The Role of Drama in the Evolution
- of Virtual Reality"
- Brenda Laurel, Ph.D.
- Telepresence Research 30 min.
-
- "Being There, or Models for
- Virtual Reality"
- Michael Spring, Ph.D.
- University of Pittsburgh 30 min.
-
- "The Metaphysics of Virtual
- Reality"
- Michael Heim, Ph.D.
- University of California, Long Beach
- 30 min.
-
-
- THEORY "Bringing Affordable Virtual Reality
- Systems to Market"
- (features 10 minutes of video from GE's
- state-of-the-art simulators and Sense8's
- WorldTool)
- Eric Gullichsen
- Sense8 Corporation 30 min.
-
- "The Virtual Body, along with Research
- and Projects at the Human Interface
- Technology Lab, Univ. of Washington"
- Suzanne Weghorst
- Human Interface Technology Lab.
- University of Washington
- (Edited to 15 min. at speaker's request)
-
- Roundtable and Demonstrations 15 min.
- (Demos from the Exhibit Hall, which
- feature Sense8's WorldTool system and
- the Virtex (Jim Kramer) glove.)
-
-
- PROMISE "Educational Implications for Virtual
- Reality"
- David Traub, Ph.D.
- Center Point Communications 30 min.
-
- "Cyberspace: A Vision of the Year 2000"
- John Thomas, Ph.D.
- NYNEX 30 min.
-
- "Cyberspace, VR and the Principle of
- Commonality" (Cyberspace Design)
- Michael Benedikt, Ph.D.
- Univ. of Texas, Austin 30 min.
-
- "Cooperative Work Environments--The
- Virtual Heartland"
- Tom Barrett
- Electronic Data Systems 30 min.
-
-
- In article 1192, Mike Gigante writes of the conference:
-
- >There were a couple of interesting talks but they were in the
- >minority. There was a lot of flakey stuff...
-
- Perhaps Mike Gigante should state which of the above
- are 'flakey,' as he puts it.
-
- In these talks: Michael Benedikt suggests architectural and spatial
- guidelines for a cyberspace world (in addition to issues of
- visualizing data). David Traub speaks of the potential of
- experiential education with VR. Walser, Gullichsen and Weghorst
- present an overview of current VR technologies. Barrett talks about a
- Corporate Virtual Workspace. Krueger, Laurel, Spring, Heim and
- others, bring out fundamental issues of VR and society--which I hope
- is a subject of interest to those of you who are creating virtual
- reality technology, regardless of whether or not you buy VR
- videotapes.
-
- >The speakers were fairly diverse, but as I indicated, many important
- >groups were not even represented.
-
- Perhaps Gigante should inform us as to who the important groups are
- in VR and who are not.
-
- Prices of VR tapes in general:
-
- Price Tape(s) Content Length
-
- 500 5 HITL Symposium ?
-
- 295 1 SIGGRAPH, HDTV & the
- Quest for Virtual
- Reality
- (1 hr for VR I believe) 2 hr.
-
- 225 1 VR Theory, VR '90 Conf. 2 hr.
-
- 225 1 VR Practice, VR '90.. 2 hr.
-
- 225 1 VR Promise, VR '90.. 2 hr.
-
- 525 3 VR'90 Tapeset 6 hr.
-
- 30 1 "Virtual Reality" ?
- (I am not familiar with
- this tape. Can anyone
- tell us if it is just
- promotional cuts from
- VPL, UNC, NASA, etc?)
-
- Prices for the VR '90 tapes were set by Meckler Publishing, however,
- forty percent of all revenue from the tapes go to support the Virtual
- Reality Film Documentary (the rest is to Meckler and distributing
- costs).
-
- For further information on the VR '90 tapes contact:
-
- Meckler Publishing,
- 11 Ferry Lane West
- Westport, CT 06880
- 203 226-6967
- 203 454-5840 (fax)
-
- or send me a message.
-
- Robert Miller
- Producer
- THE VIRTUAL REALITY FILM DOCUMENTARY
- VIRTUAL REALITY '90, THEORY, PRACTICE, PROMISE
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-