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Call: Academic Mindtrek 2018

By Matthew Lombard | Published: July 3, 2018

Call for Papers, Posters, Demonstrations and Workshops

Academic Mindtrek 2018
10th to 11th October, 2018
Tampere, Finland
https://www.mindtrek.org/2018/events/academic/

In cooperation with ACM, ACM SIGMM, and ACM SIGCHI. Contributions will be published in the ACM digital library.

Deadline for full papers, posters, demonstrations and workshops: July 15, 2018 (extended)

We are pleased to invite you to the 22nd International Academic Mindtrek conference, 10th to 11th October 2018. Academic Mindtrek is a meeting place where researchers, experts and thinkers present results from their latest work regarding the development of novel technology, media and digital culture for the society of tomorrow.

Academic Mindtrek is part of the renowned Mindtrek business conference. Mindtrek brings together people not only from various fields and domains but also from different sectors: from companies, startups, academia and various governmental institutions. This makes Mindtrek the perfect opportunity for advancing research results towards practical utilization by the industry, as well as getting out-of-the-box research ideas based on the interaction with practitioners.… read more. “Call: Academic Mindtrek 2018”

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Free virtual reality app drops users in the heart of historic Armenia

By Matthew Lombard | Published: July 3, 2018

[Presence can play a key role in preserving cultural heritage, and not just when sites are under threat. This story from Smithsonian.com describes a new free app designed to “bring the value of Armenian cultural heritage out of the abstract and into the lives of millions.” See the original story for more images. –Matthew]

[Image: Khachkars are prominently visible in front of the Noravank monastery. Credit: Sossi Madzounian, My Armenia Program.]

This Free Virtual Reality App Drops Users in the Heart of Historic Armenia

Painstaking imaging of cultural heritage sites worldwide has the potential to usher in a new era of participatory preservation efforts

By Ryan P. Smith, Smithsonian.com
June 28, 2018

Armenia’s medieval monastery at Noravank, nestled amid the craggy slopes of the country’s mountainous terrain, is a striking exemplar of Armenian architectural tradition. Elegant geometrical symmetries abound in its places of worship, and the ancient technique of khachkar—the carving of ornate crosses into steles—is on display outside, where several of the tall stone slabs watch over the complex like holy sentinels.… read more. “Free virtual reality app drops users in the heart of historic Armenia”

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Call: ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST 2018)

By Matthew Lombard | Published: July 2, 2018

CALL FOR PAPERS

VRST 2018: The ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology
Tokyo, Japan
November 28 – December 1, 2018
https://vrst.acm.org/vrst2018/

Papers submission deadline: August 15, 2018, 23:59 PST
Posters and demos submission deadline: September 1, 2018, 23:59 PST

The ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST) is the premier international symposium for the presentation of new research results, systems, and techniques among researchers and developers concerned with augmented, virtual and mixed reality (AR/VR/MR, XR for short) software and technology.

VRST brings together the main international research groups working on XR, along with many of the world’s leading companies that provide or utilize XR systems. VRST 2018 will be held in Tokyo, Japan, hosted by Waseda University, from Wednesday, Nov. 28th to Saturday, Dec. 1st, 2018. The event is sponsored by ACM SIGCHI and SIGGRAPH.

VRST 2018 welcomes submissions of research papers that relate (but not limited) to topics given below.… read more. “Call: ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST 2018)”

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Do Brexit and Trump show that we’re living in a computer simulation?

By Matthew Lombard | Published: July 2, 2018

[Recent events have me thinking again about the argument, offered even before the 2016 U.S. elections (see this ISPR Presence News post), that the rise of Donald Trump is evidence that we’re living in a computer simulation. It’s either a cruel experiment or prank by our digital overlords or some kind of glitch. The column below from The Conversation makes the counterargument to the first possibility by noting that any society that survives long enough to develop the capability to create such a sophisticated simulation would have had to develop a moral code that would prevent such cruelty. Of course in the context of genocides and world wars, Trump and Brexit are minor inconveniences, and to me the glitch seems to be an equally compelling, if deeply disturbing, prospect. In any case, just the fact that these events continue to cause many of us to ask these questions about the nature of reality is a really interesting presence phenomenon.… read more. “Do Brexit and Trump show that we’re living in a computer simulation?”

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