From: good@baviki.zko.dec.com (Michael Good)
Subject: EVENT: VR at US Fall DECUS - Las Vegas - Dec. 7-11
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1992 14:05:01 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation



Virtual reality will be featured at the Fall '92 US DECUS Symposium,
the semi-annual meeting of the US Chapter of the Digital Equipment
Computer Users Society.  The symposium will be held in Las Vegas on
December 7-11.

Virtual reality demonstrations will be running in the CHI SIG
(Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group) Campground in the
Convention Center for the whole week.  We will be alternating between
demonstrations built at Digital and those built at Xtensory with our
different software systems.  Both will be running on a DECstation
5000/240 PXG Turbo+ system.

These demonstrations will be quite simple and are primarily intended
for people who have not tried out virtual reality systems before.  Our
goals are to introduce DECUS members to virtual reality and its
possibilities, and to learn about DECUS members' needs for VR
technology.

In addition, there will be 5 talks on virtual reality on Monday
afternoon.  All talks are in Ballroom EFG in the Las Vegas Hilton:

2:00  CHI Keynote: Virtual Worlds -- Why and When?
      Tom Furness, University of Washington HIT Lab

3:00  Participatory Design of a Portable Torque-Feedback Device
      Michael Good, Digital Equipment Corporation

4:00  Virtual Environment Interfaces for Telerobotic Planning
      Butler Hines, NASA-Ames

5:00  Virtual Reality Advanced Development at Digital
      Michael Good, Digital Equipment Corporation

6:00  Desktop Mars Exploration
      Joel Hagan

There will also be a virtual reality working group meeting on
Wednesday morning at 9:00 am in room N232 of the Convention Center.

If you are going to DECUS, we hope to see you there!

Michael Good                        Pin Fong
Digital Equipment Corporation       Xtensory, Inc.
good@zko.dec.com                    vmatt@netcom.com