Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1998 18:05:45 -0400 From: Josh Prokop Subject: BVRG October '98 Meeting: VR at BU ------------ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY------------ THE BOSTON VIRTUAL REALITY GROUP MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1998 Virtual Reality at Boston University Scientific Computing and Visualization Lab. 111 Cummington Street Boston, MA http://scv.bu.edu/SCV/ ________________________________________________________________ Speakers: Glenn Bresnahan, Erik Brisson, Robert Putnam In this presentation we will discuss VR activities at Boston University, focusing primarily on our current project, ArtWorld. ArtWorld is a network-distributed, multi-person virtual environment populated with animated models, artwork and audio created by New England artists. After the talk we will provide a demonstration of ArtWorld running on the Pyramid Systems ImmersaDesk. Hope to see you there! ------------------------------------------------------------------ MEETING DETAILS: --------------- When: Thursday, October 15, 1998 7:00 PM EST Location: 111 Cummington Street, Boston Enter 111 at the Information Technology entrance and go downstairs. At the bottom of the stairs you will see an open terminal room. Go right and the second door on the right is the left conference room. http://mariner.bu.edu/MARINER/INFO/DIRECTIONS/ Local Directions From the Kenmore Square/Commonwealth Avenue exit off of Storrow Drive: At the first set of traffic lights, turn right onto Beacon Street. At this point, the road forks stay to the right, Bay State Road. Take Bay State Road. Follow to the end of Bay State Road and make a left. You are now facing the Warren Towers. Make a left onto Commonwealth Avenue and take your immediate right onto Hindsdale Street. Cummington Street is straight ahead. Go right and look on the right for 111 Cummington Street. By T: Boston University is easily accessible by public transportation. Take the "BU-East" stop on the "B" branch of the MBTA Green Line. By Car: Directions to the Charles River Campus from the South or West: Take the Massachusetts Turnpike (I-90) East to Exit 18, Allston/Cambridge. Exit left. Follow signs to Cambridge to the second set of lights. Turn right at the lights; this is Soldiers Field Road/Storrow Drive. Exit Storrow Drive at the Kenmore Exit. Directions to the Charles River Campus from the Southeast: Take I-93 Route 3 (Southeast Expressway) North to Boston. Exit onto Storrow Drive (Exit 26). Continue on Storrow Drive to the Kenmore exit. Directions to the Charles River Campus from the North: Take I-93 or Route 1 South to Boston. Exit onto Storrow Drive (Exit 26). Continue on Storrow Drive to the Kenmore Exit. =================================================================== Boston VR Group - A Gathering of Minds for Cyberspace Development: The Group meetings are a great way to meet others who are "actually" developing Virtual Environments. Whether you have an interest in the discussions, 3-D modeling, interactively generating and/or coding virtual worlds, or somewhere in between, there lots to do and talk about!!! Boston VR Group Philosophy: The purpose of the Boston Virtual Reality Group is to provide an ongoing venue for developing virtual environments as well as forum for bringing scientists and developers together with VR enthusiasts/potential users. Through actively exploring both the technology and its cultural implications, exposing each to the other's thoughts and ideas, and "learning from" and "sharing with" industry leaders, we can help shape the future of this medium. =================================================================== FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT: ------------------------------ Director BVRG: Brenden C. Maher Speaker Requests: brenden@media.mit.edu HOW TO SUBSCRIBE TO AND UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS LIST: --------------------------------------------------- To subscribe to the boston-vr-announce e-mail announcement distribution list, send the following line in the body of your message to: majordomo@world.std.com: subscribe boston-vr-announce To unsubscribe yourself from this list send the following line: unsubscribe boston-vr-announce Sometimes e-mail addresses (especially domain names) get convoluted by peoples servers. If for some reason you got on this list with an address that actually gets to you but isn't what your reply address actually looks like, just send mail to the list describing the problem and it will happen as soon as possible. This is a moderated list so don't worry about your admin request being needlessly distributed.