[Call For Demo] Laval Virtual ReVolution 2009

Laval Virtual ReVolution 2009
-World Performance of VR Applications-

Image Laval Virtual ReVolution is an annual honor to the world's
finest VR project, by Laval Virtual. This is a hall of fame award that
decides the best Virtual Reality demonstration and/or application from
all over the world. Virtual Reality is not only a technology but also
a never ending story between computers and human history.
We cannot get the final answer of this issue immediately, as we still
need to find and walk one of the many possible paths that will lead us
to a future navigated by brilliant stars. The staring at those stars
should be continued for the future voyagers on the way.
Of course, a great number of academic papers or commercial products
can build a way of Virtual Reality. However we suggest a new relation
between developmental projects and general public at on-site
demonstrations. If a performed project has impact, technology and
persuasive, it will move the general public and change the common sense.
So, this means a revolution in the history of Virtual Reality.
Please try to join today's stardom with your exciting project.
And share the activity from all over the world!

Session Organizer: Akihiko SHIRAI, Ph.D ( ENSAM P&I Lab )

We hope to accept your brilliant projects which can get over the current
common sense of Virtual Reality and make changes to the current
human-computer interfaces and Virtual Reality history.

-Technology Demonstration
-Interactive Arts
-Entertainment VR
-New Media Designs
-New Game Systems
-New Human Interfaces and Displays
-Realtime Images
........And any other "non genre" VR projects

Submission deadline 1st Feb 2009
-Description document (pdf/word)
-Floor installation plan (pdf/ppt/jpg/gif)
-Three Images for web
-Video

See also:
Submission details
http://www.laval-virtual.org/revolution/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4&Itemid=12
How to get accepted on ReVolution:
http://www.laval-virtual.org/revolution/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3&Itemid=11

ReVolution has accepts two accept classes. If you get as "Invited"
project, Laval Virtual gives your demonstration space, accommodation,
flights and VIP tickets of Gala dinner.

Winners 2008
http://www.laval-virtual.org/revolution/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6&Itemid=22

Laval Virtual has an Awarding session to find a best VR project in this
year. A large number of ReVolution projects might get win at the
ceremony. In the past ReVolution, a project "Phantasm" (Mr. Takahiro
Matsuo) had been accepted as "Welcome" by ReVolution, then it got "ACM
SIGGRAPH Award" at Laval Virtual 2008 with the chance to shown at
SIGGRAPH 2008 Los Angeles. If you are a student project, we recommend
you to register to a student competition "Le Village de la Creation",
too. "The Dreaming Pillow" (ATI - Paris 8 Univ) had won at ReVolution
and Competition at Laval Virtual 2008. Afterwards, they had get a chance
to show in USA and Japan after ReVolution.
http://www.laval-virtual.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=35&Itemid=49

Laval Virtual Award 2008
http://www.laval-virtual.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=127&Itemid=219&lang=en

We are looking forward to see your great projects!
Contact:
http://www.laval-virtual.org/revolution/index.php?option=com_contact&Itemid=21

The Greatest 80's CG Party

SIGGRAPH最終日の話。

結局、行けなかったイベントなんだけど
machiko先生やMaaに聞いたイベント。

「The Greatest 80's CG Party」
http://www.greatest80scgparty.com/
The date is FRIDAY, AUGUST 15TH, 2008 at 8pm (last day of SIGGRAPH'08)
The location is THE FOREST OF MIRRORS, 6124 Lederer Avenue, Woodland
Hills, CA 91367

会場遠すぎる…。
そのイベントの存在だけでもメモしておこう…。

[CFP]Tangible and Embeded Interaction '09

ANNOUNCING THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TANGIBLE AND EMBEDDED INTERACTION

http://tei-conf.org

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DATES AND LOCATION

Paper submission deadline 31st Oct 08

Reviews due 27th Nov 08

Author notification deadline 30th Nov 08

Camera-ready copy deadline 15th Dec 08

Early registration deadline 7th Jan 09

Conference dates February 16-18, 2009, Cambridge, UK

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Computing is progressively moving beyond the desktop into new physical and social contexts. One key area of innovation has been around tangible computing, which pushes the user interface beyond the digital into the physical world. This includes work on tangible interfaces, graspable interfaces, physical computing, and interactive surfaces. A closely related topic is that of embedded interaction where the everyday objects and environments we interact with are computationally augmented in new ways. Designing such systems requires interdisciplinary thinking. Their creation must not only encompass software, electronics, and mechanics, but also the system's physical form and behaviour, as well as its social impacts.

After the big success of TEI'07 and TEI'08 we are pleased to announce the third international conference dedicated to presenting the latest results in tangible and embedded interaction. We invite submissions of work addressing HCI issues, design, user experience, tools and technologies, as well as interactive art in the broad area of tangible computing and embedded interactive systems. The intimate size of this single-track conference provides a unique forum for exchange of ideas through talks, interactive exhibits, demos, posters, art installations and performances. All accepted submissions will be included in the conference proceedings, which will be published through the ACM Digital Library.

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TOPICS FOR SUBMISSION

Authors are invited to submit high-quality original work to advance the field. Appropriate topics include but are not limited to:

* Examples of novel tangible interfaces or embedded interactive systems

* Case studies and evaluations of working deployments

* Relation of tangible and embedded interaction to other paradigms

* Programming paradigms and tools, toolkits, software architectures

* Novel enabling technologies

* Interactive uses of sensors and actuators, and electronics and mechatronics

* Design guidelines and methods

* Applied design in the form of concept sketches, prototypes and products

* Novel applications

* Theoretical foundations, frameworks, and concepts

* Philosophical, ethical and social implications

* Usability

* Provocative design work and interactive art

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SUBMISSION DETAILS

Authors are invited to submit papers that are 2, 4, 6 or 8 pages long, formatted to follow the two column ACM SIGCHI format. We are happy to consider a variety of styles for inclusion in the proceedings, such as academic papers, design sketches and descriptions of art pieces or installations. All accepted submissions will be included in the conference proceedings, which will be published through the ACM Digital Library.

At the time of submission, authors will be able to specify their preferred format for presenting the work, which includes:

* 15 minute talk

* 5 minute talk

* Poster

* Interactive demo

* Exhibit

* Installation

We anticipate a large volume of submissions this year, but the timeslots available for talks (and space available for demos and exhibits) will be limited by necessity. In order to be help the program committee to include as much interesting work as possible, authors will also be able to specify whether they would be happy to present their work in a format other than their preferred format.

Submissions will be peer reviewed in a double-blind process: please anonymize your submission. In case of acceptance, at least one author must register before the early registration deadline for the conference in order for the final paper version to be published in the conference proceedings.

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ORGANIZING COMITTEE

CONFERENCE CHAIRS

Nicolas Villar Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK

Shahram Izadi Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK

PROGRAM CHAIRS

Mike Fraser University of Bristol, UK

Steve Benford University of Nottingham, UK

PUBLICITY CHAIRS

Jamie Zigelbaum MIT Media Lab, USA

Florian Block Lancaster University, UK

Nicolai Marquardt University of Calgary, Canada

Takashi Matsumoto Pileus LLC, Japan

PUBLICATION CHAIRS

Dagmar Kern University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

Alireza Sahami University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

SPONSORSHIP CHAIR

Sriram Subramanian University of Bristol, UK

STEERING COMMITTEE

Eva Hornecker Open University, UK

Caroline Hummels Eindhoven University of Technology, NL

Robert Jacob Tufts University, USA

Brygg Ullmer Louisiana State University, USA

Albrecht Schmidt University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

DESIGN

Bart Hengenveld Eindhoven University of Technology, NL

WEBMASTER

Nicolai Marquardt University of Calgary, Canada

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Please check the conference website for updates

同僚募集

うちの職場ですが、今年10月採用が始まりました。
メカ、ロボ、情報科学の専門家（修士〜博士以上）を特に募集します。
社会人経験、ポスドク等研究者経験者も歓迎です。

以下詳細。
http://www.miraikan.jst.go.jp/j/employment/app/200805_01.html

職種 科学コミュニケーター
業務内容 科学コミュニケーション推進のための調査・探究および展示企画、イ
ンタープリター
(解説・実演・対話)業務
【具体的には】
・先端の科学技術情報を調査・研究し、それらに関する常設展、企画展、映像、
シンポジウム、ウェブ、出版物等を企画・開発する業務
・先端の科学技術に関する、来館者との対話を中心とした展示の解説・実演
・実験教室のプログラム開発・講師 など
採用人数 10名程度
応募資格 理系大学院修士課程修了以上かつ社会人経験2年以上(または同等の経
験がある方)
応募期限 平成20年6月22日(日)

●求人・転職サイト「DODA」より応募エントリーをお願いします。
URL：http://doda.jp/Front/JobSearch/View/JobSearchDetail.aspx?jid=
3000118080

素直なだけでは生きていけない

素直な子だな。
「shine」と書かれただけでその通り実行して、
お星様になってしまうなんて。

自分から死んじゃった子は天国に行けるかどうか分からないけど。

■＜高１自殺＞ネット上に「死ね」と書かれ苦に　北九州
http://news.mixi.jp/view_news.pl?id=504385&media_id=2
<http://news.mixi.jp/view_news.pl?id=504385&media_id=2>

それにしても校長は「学校にいじめは全くなかった」と。
じゃあ「いじめの定義」ってなんなんだろうね。
子供一人死んでるのにね。
それ自体がいじめに見える。

タフに生きねば、幸せとはほど遠い。

以上、
暗い話、終わり。

大容量・高速SSDが作る未来

■サムスン、容量256GBで読み込み200MB/秒のSSDを開発

SSD(Solid State Drive)とは次世代のハードディスクを置き換えるメディアで、
現在のUSBフラッシュメモリの巨大で高速な物、です。いままで16GBぐらいが最大だったのですが、このサイズでこの速度のものが登場してくると、一気に常識が変わってしまいますね。

・落としても壊れないHDD
・ノートPCにHDDが搭載されなくなる
・いきなり電源を切っても壊れないPC(今はダメだけど...)
・デフラグがいらなくなる
・なかなか電池が切れないiPod
・撮っても撮ってもメモリが埋まらないデジカメ
・ハードディスクがガリガリ言わないHDDレコーダー
・プッシュ型でひたすらP2Pしつづける共有知サーバー
　（いまの任天堂WiiのWiiconnect24の延長みたいな物、今のHDDだとそうはいか
ない）

...等々。
一方HDDはこの後、現在のテープストリーマーのように、まさに「固定ディス
ク」的な使われ方になっていくのかもしれませんね。

それにしてもフラッシュメモリは適度に寿命があるのも市場的には重要なことか
もしれません。しかもHDDの寿命はモーターやコントローラー基板という理不尽
な電気やメカ的な理由で即死的なダメージを受けるものだったのですが、フラッ
シュメモリの死に方は静電気を除けば「徐々に書き込みできなくなってくる」と
いう感じですので比較的安心感がありますね（もちろん扱い方にもよるだろうけ
ど）。

いろんな楽しい使い方を考えたい物です。
といっても2009-2010年ぐらいの超近未来なんだろうけど！

■ニュースソース
http://slashdot.jp/hardware/article.pl?sid=08/05/27/2135243
http://journal.mycom.co.jp/news/2008/05/26/023/

追記：フラッシュメモリの寿命について

書き込み回数で1万回、と言われている。
研究レベルでは1億回なんてのもある。
http://slashdot.jp/hardware/article.pl?sid=08/05/23/0624200
「回数」ってのはメモリ1bitあたりのはずなので、USB抜き差ししたりファイル作成したりする回数じゃなくて、書き込み可能でアクセスするすべてのメモリ領域それぞれの寿命ってこと。

実際に使う上ではどういう壊れ方をするのか、についてはここでおもしろいレポートがある。
http://gigazine.net/index.php?/news/comments/20080204_usb_memory_life/
ちなみに先日壊れたデジカメのメモリカードはデータ復旧ソフトウェアなんかも使ってみたんだけど、写真1コマならともかく、動画についてはほぼ絶望的だった。
(もとはAVIファイルなんだけど、全部JPEGで復旧してくれただけましかもしれないけど)

[CfP] NIME 2008 @ Genova Itarly

NIME 2008
8th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NEW INTERFACES FOR MUSICAL EXPRESSION

http://nime2008.casapaganini.org/

June 5 - 7, 2008

InfoMus Lab, Casa Paganini, University of Genova, Piazza Santa Maria in
Passione 34,
16123 Genova, Italy, www.casapaganini.org

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Online registration for NIME08 is now open. Please go to
http://nime2008.casapaganini.org/ to register for this year's
conference. Early registration closes on April 30, after which, late
registration fees will apply.

This year NIME will include:

June 4, 2008
* 4th i-Maestro Workshop on Technology-Enhanced Music Education,
Chiostro S. Maria di Castello, h. 9.00-17.00
* Opening concert, Casa Paganini, h. 18.00
Four pieces for EyesWeb and live electronics

June 5 - 7, 2008
* Invited lectures by Andrew Gerzso (IRCAM) and Xavier Serra (UPF)
* Paper sessions, Casa Paganini, h. 9.00-17.00
* Poster sessions, Chiostro S. Maria di Castello, h. 9.00-17.00
* Interactive installations, Museo di arte contemporanea di Villa Croce,
h. 9.00-17.00
* Interactive installations, Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, Univ. of
Genova, h. 9.00-17.00
* Demo sessions, Casa della Musica, h. 13.00-16.00
* Three NIME concerts, Conservatorio Niccolo` Paganini, h. 18.00
* Club NIME performances, Mentelocale, Garibaldi Cafe', Zerodieci, h.
21.00-24.00

June 8, 2008
* Jamoma Workshop
* Tablet Workshop for Performers and Teachers Casa Paganini and Chiostro
S.Maria di Castello, h. 9.00-17.00

For more details please visit http://nime2008.casapaganini.org

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Connected event: the SMC Summer School on June 9 - 11, 2008
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This year the 4th Sound and Music Computing (SMC) Summer School is held
in connection with NIME08 on June 9 - 11, 2008. The school has the goal
of promoting interdisciplinary education and research in the field of
Sound and Music Computing and is aimed at graduate students working on
their Master or PhD thesis, but it is open to any person carrying out
research in this field. The program of the school include plenary
lectures, poster sessions, and hands-on activities. The topics chosen
for this year are Gesture and Music - Embodied Music Cognition, Mobile
Music Systems, and Active Music Listening. Registration to the school
includes free access to NIME workshops.

For more information please visit
http://www.smcnetwork.org/summerschool/genova2008

Some interests at Media Art Festival 2008

[DJ Shodo] -Sound Calligraphy- (ver.2)
http://gs.idd.tamabi.ac.jp:16080/~yang02/works/os_ver2.html

It can drawing by brush painting then it makes a dynamic sounds immediately.
The latest version is installed. It is smaller, kind and more interactivities. It have not shown on international stage, a winner of
student CG competition this year.

http://www.cgarts.or.jp/scg/2007/prize/interactive.html
Latest version (video)
http://www.cgarts.or.jp/scg/2007/prize/onkyoshodo/index.html
http://www.cgarts.or.jp/scg/2007/prize/onkyoshodo/window.html

[(lighting ball for a new sports)] Mme. Sachiko KODAMA, Kentaro FUKUCHI et al.

http://www.kodama.hc.uec.ac.jp/boundingstar/index.html

The lighting ball has PIC micro processor. The ball material made by soft silicone.

[ene-geometrics 02] Mr.SEKINE (Univ. KEIO)

http://www.cgarts.or.jp/scg/2007/prize/ene_geometrix/indes.html
http://www.cgarts.or.jp/scg/2007/prize/ene_geometrix/window.html

Heat convection visualization. Very beautiful.

[Stability Disaster Log] Karolina SOBECKA

When user shake the box, the room is shaked.

[Si Mi Sei Vicino (If you are close to me)]

Magnetic field visualization between users.

[Slot Machine Drawing] Mr.Junji WATANABE

http://www.rollcanvas.org/basic_en.html

Easy to make an animation on a virtual "long roll" paper. (Installed at ARS)

Laval Virtual ReVolution 2008, the submission deadline was extended

Dear colleagues of VR and interactive techniques,

The submission deadline of Laval Virtual ReVolution, the world
competition of VR demonstrations, was past at 1st Febrary 2008.

We would like to say great thanks to your submitted projects. However,
unfortunately, we had some other important deadlines in parallel.

We held the 10th anniversary of Laval Virtual in this year. To honor our
"invited acceptance" (it includes your international flight tickets,
accommodation and gala dinner tickets at the old castle), we need more
great number of submissions and quality.

If you already have submitted your project, you got a chance to improve
the submission with the latest state of arts and/or special approach for
Laval Virtual.

If your project have not started your submission, you should register
your project on the online now.
http://www.laval-virtual.org/revolution/

The extend deadline will be 8th February at 16:00(GMT).

This page will help you to get details.
http://www.laval-virtual.org/revolution/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4&Itemid=12

We are looking forward to find the best project on the VR history!

best regards,

Akihiko Shirai, Ph.D