Month: December 2011
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Call: Med-e-Tel 2012
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Read more: Call: Med-e-Tel 2012CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Med-e-Tel 2012 Join us at Med-e-Tel 2012 (18-20 April 2012) – 10th edition – and actively participate in the educational and information program of seminars, workshops, demonstrations and interactive panel discussions on eHealth, Telemedicine and ICT applications in medicine, health and social care. Med-e-Tel is the official event of the International Society for Telemedicine & eHealth (www.isfteh.org), the international federation of national associations who represent their country’s Telemedicine and eHealth stakeholders. Supported by a wide range of other national and international associations and institutions as well, this three day meeting and networking event brings together stakeholders and…
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EarthCam welcomes 2012 with a 3D New Year’s Eve webcast live from Times Square
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Read more: EarthCam welcomes 2012 with a 3D New Year’s Eve webcast live from Times Square[A press release from EarthCam via PRWeb; the release includes additional images and a 5:43 minute video] [Image: EarthCam’s street-level webcam, located at 46th and Broadway, puts viewers face-to-face with the crowd.] EarthCam Welcomes 2012 with a 3D New Year’s Eve Webcast Live from Times Square Broadcast for web and mobile from over 50 locations worldwide. New York, NY (PRWEB) December 28, 2011 Once again, EarthCam will be the exclusive provider of the live 3D feeds from Times Square and will serve as host to the world as it presents its 16th annual webcast of the New Year’s Eve celebrations…
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Call: University of Essex Graduate Conference in Philosophy: ‘Perception’
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Read more: Call: University of Essex Graduate Conference in Philosophy: ‘Perception’The 15th Annual International Graduate Conference in Philosophy. The University of Essex 12th May 2012 ‘Perception’ The nature and limits of perception are fiercely contested — both by analytic and continental philosophers as well as researchers in other disciplines. For example, some take ethical perception, or perceptual access to forms or structures, to be genuine phenomena, whereas others find this empirically or philosophically implausible. Furthermore, it remains disputed whether in ordinary sensory awareness we perceive objects, facts, representations, sense data, qualia, concepts, or other entities. Furthermore, the intense interdisciplinary interest in perception — spanning psychology, art, neuroscience and psychiatry, amongst…
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Doctors look to treat sick children in virtual worlds
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Read more: Doctors look to treat sick children in virtual worlds[From Medical Xpress] [Image: This photo, courtesy Societe des Arts technologiques (SAT), shows a child following the movements of an avatar (on screen) during a demonstration of a new therapy designed to treat anxiety and social behavior issues, at the St. Justine Hospital Center in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.] Doctors look to treat sick children in virtual worlds Doctors in a domed laboratory in Canada are designing a virtual world where they hope to one day treat traumatized children with colorful avatars using toy-like medical gadgets. December 27, 2011 by Michel Viatteau Sensory stimulation could be used to make a burn…
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Call: 2nd Annual Moody Gardens Digital Cinema Symposium
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Read more: Call: 2nd Annual Moody Gardens Digital Cinema SymposiumWHAT: THE 2nd ANNUAL MOODY GARDENS DIGITAL CINEMA SYMPOSIUM WHO: ALL STAKEHOLDERS IN DIGITAL CINEMA PRODUCTION & EXHIBITION THIS MEANS YOU. WHEN: MONDAY & TUESDAY, JANUARY 9-10, 2012 WHERE: MOODY GARDENS, GALVESTON, TX For more information about the Symposium and event schedule, visit http://digitalcinemasymposium.wordpress.com Museum cinema integration pioneer D3D Cinema has teamed with Moody Gardens and Barco to host an unprecedented and exclusive preview of next-generation digital projection technology, providing a glimpse into the future of the movie going experience. The event will take place January 9-10, 2012 at the 2nd Annual Moody Gardens Digital Cinema Symposium in Galveston, TX,…
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Hyper Spaces gallery show explores merging of real and virtual space
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Read more: Hyper Spaces gallery show explores merging of real and virtual space[From The Toronto Star] [Image: A video still from Lynne Marsh’s “Stadium,” a video work currently on display as part of “Hyper Spaces” Oakville Galleries.] Review: Oakville Gallery’s Hyper Spaces Oakville Gallery’s Hyper Spaces conjures up the strange things that occur when real and virtual space collide By Murray Whyte Dec 22, 2011 “We have entered the future,” or so says the intro blurb to Hyper Spaces, the current show at Oakville Galleries, and it’s an ambitious, if literally impossible, declaration (the future, being the future, can’t be inhabited or seen until it becomes the present, at which point it’s…
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Call: 5th Workshop on Software Engineering and Architectures for Realtime Interactive Systems (SEARIS) 2012
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Read more: Call: 5th Workshop on Software Engineering and Architectures for Realtime Interactive Systems (SEARIS) 2012Call for Contribution SEARIS 2012 5th Workshop on Software Engineering and Architectures for Realtime Interactive Systems 4th or 5th of March in Orange County, CA, USA In conjunction with IEEE Virtual Reality 2012 SEARIS provides a forum for researchers and practitioners working on the design, development, and support of realtime interactive systems (RIS). These systems span from Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and Mixed Reality (MR) environments to novel Human-Computer Interaction systems (such as multimodal or multitouch architectures) and entertainment applications in general. Their common principle is a strong user centric orientation which requires real-time processing of simulation aspects…
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Video chat reshapes domestic rituals
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Read more: Video chat reshapes domestic rituals[From The New York Times, where the story includes an additional image] Video Chat Reshapes Domestic Rituals By Julie Scelfo December 21, 2011 After nightfall on Tuesday, the Darvick family of Birmingham, Mich., began their Hanukkah rituals, just as they had done for years. Debra and Martin Darvick set out a tin menorah given to them by long-gone relatives. Their son, Elliot, 27, struck a match and lighted the first candle. And his sister, Emma, 24, joined in a prayer. But the Darvicks celebrated this centuries-old tradition with a modern twist — the family was in three different cities across…
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Call: IFIP International Conference on Entertainment Computing (ICEC 2012)
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Read more: Call: IFIP International Conference on Entertainment Computing (ICEC 2012)11th IFIP INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENTERTAINMENT COMPUTING ICEC 2012 — icec2012.org 26-29 September 2012, Bremen, Germany CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS The IFIP International Conference on Entertainment Computing explores the application of computational technology to entertainment. The conference brings together practitioners and researchers interested in the art and design of entertainment computing applications. ICEC welcomes submissions on the design, engineering, application and theory of entertainment technology. We solicit paper, poster and demonstration submissions, as well as proposals for tutorials and workshops. In addition to regular scientific contributions we encourage contributions specifically for and by the industry that will be presented in a…
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William Gibson on real vs. virtual and singularity
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Read more: William Gibson on real vs. virtual and singularity[From The Washington Post; for more, see a post in Discover magazine’s Science Not Fiction blog] Backyard astronomy and the weird future By Aaron Leitko, Monday, December 12, 2011 [snip] How I learned to stop worrying and love my virtual reality Chicago Humanities Festival Between smartphones that answer your casual questions and mass-multiplayer videogames, it’s getting more difficult to make a distinction between the real world and the one inside your laptop. But why worry about it? Go to www.chicagohumanities.org and watch William Gibson — who wrote the sci-fi classic “Neuromancer” and coined the term “cyberspace” — talking at the…
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Call: Workshop On Intelligent Cinematography and Editing (WICED 2012)
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Read more: Call: Workshop On Intelligent Cinematography and Editing (WICED 2012)CALL FOR PAPERS THE WORKSHOP ON INTELLIGENT CINEMATOGRAPHY AND EDITING (WICED 2012) May 28th and 29th, 2012 Marriott City Center, Raleigh, NC Part of The International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games 2012 Workshop URL: http://dgrc.ncsu.edu/activities/conf/wiced2012 Overview The expressive use of virtual cameras, mise-en-scene, lighting and texturing within 3D synthetic environments shows great promise to extend the communicative power of film and video into the artificial environments of 3D games and virtual worlds. Cinematics produced in virtual 3D environments play an important role expanding beyond entertainment to other applications, including training, education, health-care communication, simulation, visualization and others. Tools…
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Santa goes high-tech to visit sick children
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Read more: Santa goes high-tech to visit sick children[From Cisco’s The Network] [Image from The News Tribune in Tacoma, Washington: “Santa’s Video Conference Call to Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital Santa Claus says “Hello from the North Pole” to Jason Pratt, 4, via a video conference at Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital, December 13, 2011. In reality Santa was holed up in a hospital conference room. Ryan Mathus, left, a systems engineer with Cisco Systems Inc., was a member of the team that wheeled the portable video-link setup into young patients’ rooms who would have had difficulty being transported from their rooms to visit Santa. Registered nurse Shannon Jackson is…
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