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Month: October 2023

  • Call: AVI 2024 – International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces

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    Call for Submissions AVI 2024 International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces Genoa, Italy June 3 -7,  2024 https://avi2024.dibris.unige.it/ Submission deadlines: Workshop and tutorial proposals: December 1, 2023 Long and short papers: January 10, 2024 (abstracts); January 17, 2024 (papers) Since 1992, AVI has been a biennial appointment for a vast international community of experts with a broad range of backgrounds. Throughout three decades, the Conference has attracted leading researchers of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) from all over the world, offering a forum to present and disseminate new technological results, paradigms, and visions for HCI and user interfaces. Because of advanced technology…

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  • Virtual reality enhances learning for Penn State Harrisburg criminal justice students

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    [Penn State News provides this report on the use of virtual reality in Criminal Justice and other courses at Pennsylvania State University’s Harrisburg campus. Among other observations it’s interesting that the report says that “employers are looking for experience with [VR] on résumés.” See the original story for a photo gallery containing nine more images and a 2:05 minute video (also available on YouTube). –Matthew] [Image: Credit: Sharon Siegfried / Penn State] Virtual reality enhances learning for Harrisburg criminal justice students October 3, 2023 MIDDLETOWN, Pa. — They didn’t leave their seats in the Olmsted Building classroom, but Penn State…

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  • Call: “XR Experiences for Enhanced Well-Being” LA ACM SIGGRAPH virtual event

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    Call for Participation XR Experiences for Enhanced Well-Being Presented by LA ACM SIGGRAPH October 10, 2023, 7:00 pm EST Zoom Virtual Event https://lasiggraph.org/event/xr-experiences-enhanced-well-being XR technologies including VR, digital domes and the metaverse are uniquely suited for delivering deeply meaningful mood-enhancing experiences. Join immersive artists and researchers as they discuss the unique challenges of creating XR experiences to enhance well-being. The panel will be moderated by LA Chapter Past Chair Ed Lantz. You must register with ZOOM REGISTRATION to attend this event. LA Chapter YouTube Channel PRESENTERS Jacki Morie Founder/Chief Scientist All These Worlds, LLC Skip Rizzo Research Director USC Institute for Creative…

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  • AI-generated ‘subliminal messages’ are going viral. Here’s what’s really going on

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    [Many writers are covering and/or commenting on a new technique that uses artificial intelligence to incorporate ‘hidden’ messages in images (with varying degrees of presence-evoking subtlety). The Motherboard story below has a more serious tone while the Laptop Mag story that follows it takes a lighter approach. For more examples of the technique see coverage in Bored Panda, and if you’re interested in creating images yourself, Michael Brig has a four-minute tutorial on YouTube. –Matthew] AI-Generated ‘Subliminal Messages’ Are Going Viral. Here’s What’s Really Going On They’re not going make you subconsciously crave McDonald’s, but they are pretty cool as…

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  • Call: Making a Real Connection: Pro-Social Collaborative Play in Extended Realities – MUM 2023 Workshop

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    Call for Papers Making A Real Connection: Pro-Social Collaborative Play in Extended Realities – Trends, Challenges and Potentials Workshop at the 22nd International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM 2023) Vienna, Austria December 3-6, 2023 Workshop: https://xrsocialinteraction.wordpress.com/ MUM 2023: https://www.mum-conf.org/2023/ Submission deadline: October 28, 2023 The “Making A Real Connection: Pro-Social Collaborative Play in Extended Realities – Trends, Challenges and Potentials” is a one-day workshop that aims to bring together researchers, practitioners, and designers to promote interdisciplinary exchange in the field of human-computer interaction, XR games and collaborative approaches. The workshop will consist of a combination of presentations, group…

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  • With U2 opening, Las Vegas’ immersive, presence-evoking Sphere venue draws rave reviews

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    [The first of a series of concerts by U2 yielded a series of very positive assessments of the new Las Vegas venue known as the Sphere. This review from CNN provides a particularly good description, and the original story includes three different pictures and a 2:10 video. Coverage from Deadline features more images and videos and notes that “Reviewers were beside themselves to come up with superlatives that could adequately convey the venue’s multimedia. They called the $2.3 billion Sphere a ‘stunning spectacle’ (USA Today), ‘mind blowing’ (The Verge), and ‘utterly astonishing’ (The Guardian), among other media kudos.”…

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  • Call: Corpo:reality Conference on “Robots, AI and Bodies”

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    Call for Participation Corpo:reality Conference on “Robots, AI and Bodies” December 1-2, 2023 Würzburg, Germany https://www-domschule–wuerzburg-de.translate.goog/kuferweb/webbasys/index.php?kathaupt=11&knr=23-AK-141&kursname=Corporeality&_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp (Google-translated to English) Registration deadline: October 13, 2023 Join us for the upcoming Corpo:reality Conference on *Robots, AI and Bodies*, 1-2 Dec 2023 in Würzburg (Germany)! What bodies will robots have? How can robotics and AI embrace diversity? What kinds of relationships will we establish with robots? Virtual avatars, robots and Artificial Emotional Intelligence are changing our view of the body and embodiment. Therefore, the conference explores the meaning of the body in relation to AI and robotics through current questions on anthropology, transhumanism,…

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  • Modified virtual reality tech can measure brain activity

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    [As reported in this story from the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, UT Austin researchers have outfitted Meta virtual reality headsets with soft, noninvasive EEG sensors to enable measurement and assessment of brain activity as wearers interact with virtual environments and experience presence. See the original story for a second image, and for detailed information see the open access article in Soft Science. –Matthew] Modified Virtual Reality Tech Can Measure Brain Activity August 3, 2023 Researchers have modified a commercial virtual reality headset, giving it the ability to measure brain activity and examine how…

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