Virtual Humans 2 June 17-19 1997 Universal Hilton, Los Angeles Organised by VR NEWS and KillerApp Communications Sponsored by Silicon Graphics and EDS Just a brief reminder that the early registration period for VH2 runs out next week. The full program and registration form can be found at the event web site, www.vrnews.com/vh2.html Highlights include: - Prof. David Farber's visionary Snow Crash panel initiative, which will compare the state of the art in online virtual communities with Neal Stephenson's benchmark novel. - Virtual Tennis - the Thalmann's real-time version, followed by Digital Domain's celebrated virtual Andre Agassi, presented by Andre Bustanoby, one of the world's leading performance capture specialists - Some of Industrial Light & Magic's latest and best character simulation work, demonstrated and explained by top animator/designer Ellen Poon (whose credits include Men in Black, The Mask, Disclosure, Jumanji, etc,) - Televirtual will unveil their world-beating next generation technology, which enables a virtual TV host to move amongst and interact closely with the studio audience. - We have four of the leading vendors of industrial humanoids - Deneb, Genicom, Transom and Tecmath - putting their ergonomic proteges through their most demanding paces, one after the other. - And then there's Prof. Frank Biocca's panel - Communication Needs for Virtual Humans; Prof. Lewis Johnson's panel - Virtual Humans as Autonomous [267 lines left ... full text available at <url:http://www.reference.com/cgi-bin/pn/go?choice=message&table=05_1997&mid=3978537&hilit=ART+TELECONFERENCING> ] -------------------------------- Article-ID: 05_1997&3878029 Score: 78 Subject: ## FREE...LIVE CHAT WITH SEXY GIRLS ##