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  • Virtalis supplies advanced visualisation for Nuclear Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre

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    [A press release from Virtalis] Virtalis Supplies Advanced Visualisation for Nuclear AMRC Virtalis has designed and installed two Virtual Reality (VR) systems for the new Nuclear AMRC at Sheffield. The Nuclear AMRC was set up to support the nuclear supply chain for the new generation of nuclear reactors. It aims to put UK industry at the forefront of nuclear technology, both nationally and internationally. Rab Scott, Head of Virtual Reality and Simulation at the Nuclear AMRC, explained: “The visualisation capability Virtalis has delivered will make our technology more accessible than ever before. This is because what makes the nuclear sector…

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  • Call: 2012 International Conference on Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality (CGVR’12)

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    CALL FOR PAPERS and Call For Conference Tracks CGVR’12 The 2012 International Conference on Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality Date and Location: July 16-19, 2012, USA http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/ Location: See the above web site for venue/city You are invited to submit a full paper for consideration. All accepted papers will be published in printed conference books/proceedings (they will also be available on the web). The proceedings will be indexed in Inspec / IET / The Institute for Engineering and Technology, DBLP / Computer Science Bibliography, and others. Like prior years, extended versions of selected papers (about 40%) will appear in journals…

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  • Remotely pat your pet with Kinect and a Wiimote

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    [From ExtremeTech; more information is available from Taylor Veltrop’s web site] Remotely pat your pet with Kinect and a Wiimote By Sebastian Anthony on January 3, 2012 Taylor Veltrop, an enterprising roboticist with a fondness for felines, has crafted the mother of all Kinect (and Wiimote!) hacks: The teleoperation of a robot to groom a cat. As always with these hacks, you should […] watch the [4:25] video, then come back […] to find out how it works.…

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  • Call: IE 2012 – 8th Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment

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    CALL FOR PAPERS IE 2012 21-22 July 2012 Auckland, New Zealand ieconference.org/ie2012 The 8th Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment The Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment is a cross-disciplinary conference that brings together researchers from artificial intelligence, audio, cognitive science, cultural studies, drama, HCI, interactive media, media studies, psychology, computer graphics, as well as researchers from other disciplines working on new interactive entertainment specific technologies or providing critical analysis of games and interactive environments.…

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  • Indie film “Robot and Frank” explores human-AI implications

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    [From io9] Robot and Frank is the next great science fiction indie By Jordan Hoffman Jan 23, 2012 In the movies, technology is usually represented one of two ways: a hallelujah-worthy miracle or a soul-deadening trespass on the natural order of things. Robot and Frank, a film receiving near-unanimous praise at the Sundance Film Festival, is smart enough to know better. Technology, like everything in life, isn’t black and white, and is only as good or bad as the people who interact with it. Okay, so here’s the pitch: Frank Langella and a robot crack safes. You’d be forgiven for…

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  • Call: 17th Annual CyberPsychology & CyberTherapy Conference

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    iACToR’s 17th Annual CyberPsychology & CyberTherapy Conference Experience the Future of Health & Well-­Being September 25–28, 2012 | Brussels, Belgium http://www.interactivemediainstitute.com/CYBER17 CALL FOR PAPERS Abstract Submission Deadline: March 1, 2012 Full Paper Submission Deadline: June 1, 2012 The Interactive Media Institute, in collaboration with the Virtual Reality Medical Institute, is pleased to announce the first Call for Papers for the International Association of CyberPsychology, Training, & Rehabilitation’s (iACToR) 17th Annual Conference. The CyberPsychology & CyberTherapy Conference (CYBER17) is scheduled for September 25-28, 2012 in Brussels, Belgium. CYBER17 brings together researchers, clinicians, funders and policymakers to share and discuss trends in…

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  • New gesture, voice technology may make remote controls obsolete

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    [From The Los Angeles Times] [Image: A SoftKinetic application called Guru Training Systems is shown at the Consumer Electronics Show last week in Las Vegas. (Myung J. Chun, Los Angeles Times)] New gesture, voice technology may make remote controls obsolete Systems that enable consumers to control TVs, smartphones, tablets and home appliances by waving a hand or saying a word are eliminating the need for clunky pointing devices. January 20, 2012|By David Sarno, Los Angeles Times The remote control has never been much beloved. If it’s not getting lost or running out of batteries, the device — and its inscrutable…

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  • Job: Senior Technical Lead/Project Scientist in IMMERSE project at UC Santa Cruz

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    Job opening at UC Santa Cruz: Senior Technical Lead/Project Scientist The Center for Games and Playable Media (CGPM) and the Expressive Intelligence Studio invites applications from outstanding individuals for a Senior Technical Lead/Project Scientist position. We’re starting a new research project to create the next generation of interactive storytelling technology: autonomous characters, social simulation, and story management. The goal is to take as big a step beyond the interactive drama Facade as it took from previous efforts. Please see the following link for more information: http://games.soe.ucsc.edu/immerse-project-job-opening. Both applicants with Ph.D.s and research experience and applicants without Ph.D.s but with industry…

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  • NAVIgoid lets human get immersed in remote robot’s actions

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    [From Discovery] [Image: Toyohashi University of Technology assistant professor Dzmitry Tsetserukou guides the NAVIgoid telepresence robot system.] Human Gets Immersed In Remote Robot’s Actions These kinds of robots could represent us in faraway places, letting us interact with friends, family and coworkers as if we were there. By Alyssa Danigelis Dec 28, 2011 What if you could be in two places at once? Or four? A group of Japanese roboticists envisions a world where we all use robots to visit friends and family, and represent us in distant work sites. They are developing a telepresence robot they think will give…

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  • Call: PURBA 2012 – Second Workshop on Pervasive Urban Applications

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    PURBA 2012 – CALL FOR PAPERS The Second Workshop on Pervasive Urban Applications (PURBA) In conjunction with Pervasive 2012 Newcastle, UK | June 18-22, 2012 http://www.ibm.com/ie/dublinresearchlab/purba Submission Deadline: March 2, 2012 Over the past decade, the development of digital networks and operations has produced an unprecedented wealth of information. Handheld electronics, location devices, telecommunications networks, and a wide assortment of tags and sensors are constantly producing a rich stream of data reflecting various aspects of urban life. For urban planners and designers, these accumulations of digital traces are valuable sources of data in capturing the pulse of the city in…

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  • Contact lenses upgrade your eyes to enable true immersive VR

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    [From DVICE, where the story includes additional images and a video] Contact lenses upgrade your eyes to enable true immersive VR By Evan Ackerman Jan 17, 2012 Our eyes are just not built for the future. It sucks, but it’s true. We can’t physically focus on things that are very close to us, which is why we’re not all rocking high-resolution immersive virtual reality displays built into our eyeglasses. How do we fix this problem? Simple: we upgrade our eyeballs. We’ve posted about head-mounted VR displays a lot around here, but there’s always a compromise going on: you can have…

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  • Call: IUI 2012 – ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces

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    IUI 2012 – the 17th ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces February 14-17, 2012 – Lisbon, Portugal http://iuiconf.org/ Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) is the premier international conference for bringing together researchers from academia, nonprofit organizations, industry and practitioners of the trade, who are working on Novel Interaction and Intelligent Interfaces, including related empirical studies and technologies. IUI 2012 will be held in Lisbon, Portugal, February 14-17 2012. Major Topics of Interest to IUI include: Intelligent interactive interfaces, systems, and devices, Ubiquitous interfaces, Smart environments and tools, Human-centered interfaces, Mobile interfaces, Multimodal interfaces, Pen-based interfaces, Spoken and natural language interfaces,…

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