Euro-VR Mini-Conference '97

Amsterdam , 18 July 1997 The first EURO-VR mini-conference on Virtual Reality will be held on 10 and 11 November 1997 in Amsterdam. The first day of the conference will be focussed on industrial applications of VR in Europe, while the second day will be research targeted and technology focussed.

The conference is targeted at end-users from industry and researchers throughout Europe who are involved, or who intend to apply in the future, virtual reality techniques in the exploration of complex time dependent datasets.

The conference will consist of a number of invited / contributed presentations and demonstrations. During the conference there will be the unique possibility to use the the CAVE Automatic Virtual Environment in Amsterdam for demonstration purposes.

This conference is a joint activity of the European Network of High Performance Computing and Networking Technology Transfer Nodes and HPCnet (High Performance Computing network of excellence).

The TTNs are an Esprit sponsored network of HPCN centres in the European Union aimed at stimulating the use of HPCN in European Industry. The use of Virtual Reality applications in industry has received an important priority in the activities of the TTNs

The overall objective of HPCnet is to ensure that European industry prospers from the use of High Performance Computing technology. It brings together industrial, commercial, enabler and supplier organisatons and facilitates the growth of knowledge, understanding and use of HPC technology.

In many cases visualization, or other exploration techniques, of large complex datasets is one of the few options to analyze these datasets and to obtain further insight into simulated phenomena.

Typical examples are climate modelling, biomolecular modelling, surface physics, simulations of fluid dynamics, diffusion, and reactivity in complex three dimensional geometries, which are relevant in a wide variety of applications (permeability of porous media, ground water pollution, growth phenomena in physics and biology).

In a wide range of medical and biological applications the availability of Virtual Reality techniques suitable for the exploration of large time dependent datasets (for example CT-scan, MRI, confocal microscopical data) is an important pre-requisite.

Invited speakers are :

  • Carolina Cruz-Neira, Iowa Center for Emerging Manufacturing Technology, USA
  • Steve Feiner, Columbia University, USA
  • Bob Stone, VR Solutions / Virtual Presence Limited, UK

For more information, check in at the EUROVR web site

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