The Second Birds of A Feather Meeting on

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The Second Birds of A Feather Meeting on
International Collegiate Virtual Reality
Contest At IEEE VR2005
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Keynote Speech History and Future of IVRC
The Chair of Executive Committee Prof. Tachi,
University of Tokyo.
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What is IVRC

• International collegiate Virtual Reality Contest
  establish in 1993 A contest of interaction
  and virtual reality
  by fusing art and technology.
• Renamed from Intercollegiate Virtual Reality
  Contest in 2004.
• Honors the greatest Virtual Reality and
  Interactive works of students.
• New educational system through VR contest.
• It is also a new educational system.

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What is IVRC

• Organized by Virtual Reality Society of Japan,
  Gifu Prefecture and Kakamigahara-City.
• Held in Kakamigahara City, Gifu Prefecture, JAPAN
• Supported by Ministry of Economy, Trade and
  Industry and Ministry of Education, Culture,
  Science and Technology.
• Virtual Reality Society of Japan
  http//www.vrsj.org/

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History of IVRC

• Founded by Professor Susumu Tachi (Univ. of
  Tokyo) in 1993
• The oldest Virtual Reality Contest in the world.

• 1993 First IVRC established and held in Tokyo as
  a part of ICAT
• 1994
• 1995
• 1996 Moved to Kakamigahara city, Gifu
  prefecture.
• 1997
• 1998
• 1999
• 2000
• 2001
• 2002 SIGGRAPH Emerging Technologies, Virtual
  Chambara
• 2003 Corroboration with Laval Virtual began
• Renamed to International collegiate Virtual
  Reality Contest
• SIGGRAPH E-Tech 2005 accepted 3 student projects
  from IVRC2004.

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History of IVRC

• Moved to Kakamigahara-City, Gifu Prefecture in
  1996

Gifu Prefecture, Japan.
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History of IVRC

• Participate in ACM SIGGRAPH since 2002
• IVRC Committee helps the champion team submit to
  SIGGRAPH as a reward to the winner.
• Virtual Chambara, SIGGRAPH2002
• THE DIMENSION BOOK, SIGGRAPH2003

Virtual Chambara, the winner of IVRC2000
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History of IVRC

• Fragra was accepted by Sketch Application at
  SIGGRAPH 2004.
• Dis-Tansu was selected by Heather
  Elliott-Famularo, the chair of SIGGRAPH2004
  Emerging Technologies as Chairs Prerogative
  Exhibit at SIGGRAPH 2004 and IMAGICA2005.

Heather Elliott-Famularo SIGGRAPH 2004 Emerging
Technologies Chair Bowling Green State University
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Agreement on International Cooperationat Laval
Virtual 2004
Prof. S. Tachi (IVRC)
J.F. Fontaine (Laval Virtual)

• IVRC and Laval Virtual will maintain an award
  partnership for three years (2004-2007) the
  Laval Virtual Award at the IVRC in Japan, the
  IVRC Award at Laval Virtuals Le Village de la
  Creations in France.

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IVRC teams at Laval Virtual 2005

• Conspiratio will participate at Laval Virtual
  2005 as a finalist.

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Video
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Future

• IVRC continues to support finest VR works and
  educate innovative young researchers.
• IVRC looks for partnership with countries all
  over the world.

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Thank you for your attention.
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Abstract

• Akihiko Shirai
• IVRC Executive Committee, internationalization
  chair.

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IVRC Flow Chart at IVRC2005
April on the Website
Call for Submission
Online submission
Deadline of submission
18th May, 2400 JST

1st stage, Paper reviewing
Start to prepare presentations
About 30projects
2nd stage, Presentation
11th June, Univ. of Tokyo
Start to development
Interactive Tokyo
10 projects
3rd stage, Tokyo Exhibition
25th -26th Aug, MeSci
Improving phase
4 1 projects
Final stage Gifu Exhibition
End of Oct, Technoplaza, Kakamigahara, Gifu
SIGGRAPH 2006 8th Laval Virtual
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Interactive Tokyo

• 25th 26th , August, 2005 at MeSci The biggest
  science museum in Tokyo
• Tokyo Stage of IVRC
• Organized by Professor Iwata.
• Inviting past important interactive works.Past
  SIGGRAPH E-Tech contributors will participate!
• Be held by VRSJ (VR Society of Japan)as a series
  of 10th anniversary event of VRSJ.

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Birds of Feathers

• The 3rd BoF meeting at SIGGRAPH2005
• 2nd August at LACC
• Contact shirai_at_mail.com

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Luncheon meeting with video
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Internationalization

• The winner team of IVRC Award at Laval Virtual
  2004 is invited to IVRC2004 Final Stage in Gifu,
  Japan at 28-29th Oct.
• The winner team of Laval Virtual award will be
  invited to Laval Virtual 2005 in Laval France at
  19-24th April 2005.

Jury committee at Laval Virtual 2004
Trophy of IVRC Award
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Address from the director of the Emerging
Technologies 2004
Heather Elliott-Famularo SIGGRAPH 2004 Emerging
Technologies Chair Bowling Green State University
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IVRC Flow Chart at IVRC2004
8th May on the Website
Call for Submission
Online submission
Deadline of submission
26th May, 2400 JST
5th June, on the website
1st stage, Paper reviewing
Start to prepare presentations
2nd stage, Presentation
19th June, Univ. of Tokyo
Start to development
3rd stage, Tokyo Exhibition
31th Aug, MeSci
Development
Final stage Gifu Exhibition
29th 30th Oct, Technoplaza, Kakamigahara, Gifu
SIGGRAPH 2005 7th Laval Virtual
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Digest Presentation, My SIGGRAPH and IVRC

• Students
• Dis-Tansu Y.Takada and Prof. Idehara (IVRC2003
  Final nominates,)
• SIGGRAPH2004 Emerging Technologies Chairs
  Prerogative Exhibit
• Fragra A Visual-Olfactory VR Game A.Mochizuki
  (IVRC2003 Grand-prix)
• SIGGRAPH2004 Sketches

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Digest Presentation, My SIGGRAPH and IVRC

• Committee
• Wearable Scanning Laser Projector (WSLP) for
  Augmenting Shared Space
• Hideki Ando (NTT Communication Science
  Laboratories)
• Touch and Drops Kumiko Kushiyama (Jury
  Committee)
• Time Follower's Vision M.Sugimoto, G.Kagotani
  (UEC Inami Lab.)

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History of IVRC

• Prof. Tachi was invited to Laval Virtual 2003
• Discussed about cooperation between Laval Virtual
  and IVRC in May 2003.

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IVRC2003 Final Stage

• The cooperation started at the final stage of
  IVRC2003
• Two teams are nominated as finalists of Laval
  Virtual Contest of 2004.
• Fragra(NAIST, IVRC2004 Grand-prix)
• Dis-Tansu(Tama Univ.)

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PINOCCHIO, a virtual characterChristophe LE
GAL and Thomas JOURDAN (ENIB, Brest National
Institute of Engineering, France) was selected
as a finalist of IVRC2004

• Pinocchio can understand players crossbar
  movement using image processing. And he can
  dance with correct human kinematics.