From: cyberoid@milton.u.washington.edu (Bob Jacobson)
Subject: Re: Japanese Symposium on Artificial Reality, 9-10 July 1991, Tokyo
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1991 00:13:13 GMT
Organization: Human Interface Technology Lab, Wash. Tech. Center




In article <1991Jun20.234839.10114@milton.u.washington.edu> kilian@poplar.
cray.com (Alan Kilian) writes:

>I was noticing that the International Symposium on Artificial Reality and
>Tele-Existence was sponsored by Nihon Keizai Shimbun Inc. & Japan Technology
>Transfer Association.
>
>The lectures are all by US people. (Other than the keynote address)
>
>Guess which way the technology is transferring.
>
>Any other thoughts like this out there or am I just paranoid?
>
>                   -Alan "Where are all the US autos?" Kilian
>
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	Conferences are how we advance our field.  If the U.S. computer
industry feels strongly about virtual worlds, it will sponsor a conference,
too.

	Japanese researchers have been invited to numerous North American
and European conferences and have been forthcoming with their work.  Also,
there are many Japanese researchers who will be at this conference to share
their work.  Their names do not appear on the flyer, I surmise, because
they are already known to the Japanese audience for which the flyer
(translated as a courtesy to the American participants) is intended.  I
have already been invited to several of these two-way meetings.

	Ultimately, there is not much the American researchers will say
that is unknown to the Japanese.  They are competent and capable researchers
on their own; their VR is fine.  Meetings like this one accomplish the same
goal as conferences around the world:  to build global relationships on the
personal and professional level.

	I am sure the domestic VR community would welcome Cray taking a
lead in bringing the North American community together.


	Bob Jacobson