/news-archive/tag/icat-egve-2016/ 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Thu, 08 Dec 2016 21:10:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 /news-archive/2016/12/08/cruz-neira-chairs-international-virtual-reality-conference/ Thu, 08 Dec 2016 21:10:36 +0000 /news/?p=65931 ... Cruz-Neira chairs international virtual reality conference]]> Dr. Carolina Cruz-Neira, director of the at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, chaired an international virtual reality conference Dec. 7-9 at the Clinton Presidential Center in Little Rock.聽 The conference brings together researchers, developers, and academics to share their expertise on virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality, and 3-D user interfaces. ICAT-EGVE 2016 is the merger of the International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence (ICAT) and the Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments (EGVE). Cruz-Neira, a member of the ICAT International Steering Committee, served as the conference co-chair, along with Kiyoshi Kiyokawa of Osaka University in Japan. The conference鈥檚 keynote speakers included Scott Parazynski, a decorated physician and astronaut recently inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame, and Rudolph Darken, professor of computer science at the Naval Postgraduate School. In his Dec. 8 keynote address, 鈥�,鈥� Parazynski highlighted defining moments of his career when perseverance and multidisciplinary collaboration sparked innovative solutions under the most extreme conditions. Parazynski is a veteran of five spaceflights, spending 47 hours on spacewalks. He holds the distinction of being the only person to have both flown in space and summited Mt. Everest. Darken鈥檚 Dec. 9 keynote speech, 鈥�,鈥� will cover the key elements of taking an idea from conception to a commercialized product, especially in a university setting. Additional members of the Emerging Analytics Center who were instrumental in the organization of the conference, include:

• 聽聽聽聽聽Dirk Reiners, EAC chief scientist, who served as a program chair and web chair
• 聽聽聽聽聽Tom Coffin, EAC senior visualization and operations manager, who served as a demo chair
• 聽聽聽聽聽Carsten Neumann, EAC senior research scientist, who served as a web chair
• 聽聽聽聽聽Kendra Boyle, EAC business/program project manager, and Rose Rains, EAC innovative idea development associate, who served as the local organizations committee
• 聽 聽 聽Jason Zac, EAC lead artist, who led design, art, and animation work for the conference

For more information, visit the or contact Kendra Boyle at 501.682.2310 or eacevents@ualr.edu. ]]>