Month: March 2024

Call: New Media at 2024 Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest American Culture Association Annual Conference

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March 5, 2024

CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS: Papers, Abstracts, and Panel Proposals in New Media 2024 Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest American Culture Association Annual Conference October 4-6, 2024 DePaul University-Loop Campus Chicago, IL https://www.mpcaaca.org/2024-mpca-aca-annual-conference Deadline for submission proposals: May 15, 2024 Registration deadline: September 15, 2024 The Midwest Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association is a regional branch of the Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association. MPCA/ACA usually holds its annual conference in a large Midwestern city in the United States. Anyone is welcome to join and submit proposals for consideration at the MPCA/ACA conference. View our Subject Areas page for more…
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MIT project provides transcontinental brain surgery training from an avatar

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March 5, 2024

[An impressive and potentially life-saving application of presence-evoking technology is described in this story from MIT News. See the original version for three more images and links to related information. –Matthew] [Image: Benjamin Warf, the director of neonatal and congenital neurosurgery at Boston Children’s Hospital, uses a virtual reality environment to demonstrate a procedure that he pioneered to treat infant hydrocephalus. As Warf operates his avatar from a distance in real-time, medical residents in Brazil watch, interact, and learn in a 3D environment. Credit: Photo courtesy of the MIT.nano Immersion Lab.] Brain surgery training from an avatar MIT.nano Immersion Lab…
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Call: Fifteenth International Conference on The Image: Images and Imaginaries of Artificial Intelligence

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March 4, 2024

CALL FOR PAPERS 15th International Conference on The Image SPECIAL FOCUS: Images and Imaginaries of Artificial Intelligence October 24-25, 2024 Interamerican Open University, Buenos Aires, Argentina + Online https://ontheimage.com/2024-conference/call-for-papers Format: A mix of live, pre-recorded, and in person (at scale that’s allowed) presentations and social interaction spaces. Submission deadlines: Early Proposal Deadline: March 24, 2024 Regular Proposal Deadline: July 24, 2024 Late Proposal Deadline: September 24, 2024 Founded in 2010, The Image Research Network is brought together around a shared interest in the nature and function of image making and images. We seek to build an epistemic community where we…
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Experts explore use of AR, VR to enhance social and emotional learning for K-12 students

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March 4, 2024

[The experiential learning provided by presence-evoking technologies can be used not just for traditional content but to develop social and emotional learning for K-12 students, especially those with autism and social anxiety. Details are reported in the story below from GovTech. Note this comment from Discovery Education’s senior director of immersive content: “The thing about augmented reality and virtual reality is it’s this great amplifier, and it creates this experiential learning scenario. When [students are] collaborating, all the soft skills are starting to come in. They’re using immersive content to solve problems as if they are actually there.” –Matthew] What…
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Call: “Extended Reality as a Gateway to the Metaverse” at IEEE MetroXRAINE 2024

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March 1, 2024

Call for Papers Special Session on: “Extended Reality as a Gateway to the Metaverse: Practices, Theories, Technologies and Applications” 2024 IEEE International Conference on Metrology for eXtended Reality, Artificial Intelligence, and Neural Engineering (IEEE MetroXRAINE 2024) October 21-23, 2024 St Albans, London, UK Session: https://metroxraine.org/special-session-6 Conference: https://metroxraine.org/ Submission deadline for abstracts (1-2 pages): March 15, 2024 Final paper submission deadline: April 30, 2024 SPECIAL SESSION DESCRIPTION The fast development of Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and Mixed Reality (MR) solutions over the last few years are transforming how people interact, work, and communicate. The eXtended Reality (XR) term encloses…
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A virtual reality tour of surveillance tech at the U.S-Mexico border

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March 1, 2024

[The tagline for The Markup’s weekly newsletter Hello World is “Challenging technology to serve the public good.” The first-person report and interview below describe how a presence-evoking virtual tour of different places at the U.S.-Mexico border via Google Earth and a VR headset is helping people experience and understand how surveillance technology is used at the border and some of the impacts and implications of the surveillance. See the original version of the story for a second image and links to related stories. –Matthew] [Image: Credits: Photo illustration: Joel Eastwood; photos by John Moore / Getty Images (4); Loren Elliott…
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Month: March 2024

Call: New Media at 2024 Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest American Culture Association Annual Conference

MIT project provides transcontinental brain surgery training from an avatar

Call: Fifteenth International Conference on The Image: Images and Imaginaries of Artificial Intelligence

Experts explore use of AR, VR to enhance social and emotional learning for K-12 students

Call: “Extended Reality as a Gateway to the Metaverse” at IEEE MetroXRAINE 2024

A virtual reality tour of surveillance tech at the U.S-Mexico border

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