Laval Virtual ReVolution 2013 Call For Demos (v.20121008)

"THE NEXT BIG STEP"

Laval Virtual ReVolution 2013 Call For Demos (v.20121008)

Presentations of the world’s most innovative achievements in the field of virtual reality, augmented reality and their future applications, Laval Virtual ReVolution is an annual honor of the world’s finest VR projects by Laval Virtual. It is a hall of fame 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 about the history between computers and humans. We cannot know the ending of this story yet, 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.

Future voyagers will continue staring at those stars along their way. Of course, a great number of

academic papers or commercial products can build a culture of Virtual Reality. However we suggest a new relation between developmental projects and the general public at on-site demonstrations. If a project has impact, technology and persuasiveness, it might move the general public and change our commonsense. So, this means a revolution in the history of Virtual Reality.

Please try to join today’s stardom with your exciting project and share in the activity from all over the world! We hope to accept your brilliant projects which can evolve the current conceptions 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

... And any other "non genre" VR projects

Current Virtual Reality technology includes computer- generated graphics, display technologies, haptics, force feedback and interface design in the context of implementing new experiences that encourage users to use a virtual sytem to enhance their real, mundane lives.

Edito 2013 : "THE NEXT BIG STEP"

Each year, new novelties, new concepts and implementations are announced in our society. In the field of Virtual Reality, thanks to the progress of technologies and to the brilliant ideas by researchers, many difficulties have been unlocked. However, a way to more realistic simulation, intuitive interaction in virtual reality is still a long way to go. There will always be a need for improvements.

Small steps for advancement look as improvements but it will not move the people who is continuing to explore the future.

We need "The Next Big Step"

It will be not easy to be stable with a big stride, but it needs a direction and it makes us to move forward, and finally someone will follow to it to go to the future.

The common technologies have no limits, there are no goals but may be no interest any more by the people.

Let us define the big wall and override it, which is actually existing but it was not recognized in our current society. It may be very convergence zone; not only in the game but also the web, and for the academic society.

Please contribute to the definition of "The Next Big Step" by participating the Laval Virtual ReVolution 2013.

Akihiko SHIRAI, Ph.D

Session Chair, Kanagawa Institute of Technology, JAPAN

---Japanese version below---

Edito2013："次の大きな一歩"

毎年，目新しいもの，新しい概念や実装が，私たちの社会で発表されています．バーチャルリアリティの分野では，技術の進歩と研究者による素晴らしいアイデアによって，多くの困難性のロックが解除されました．しかしながら，VRでのより現実的なシミュレーション、直感的な対話の実現にはまだ長い道のりがあり，常に改善の必要があるでしょう．

進歩のための「小さな一歩」は、改善しているように見えますが，それは未来を探求し続けている人々を動かさないでしょう．

私たちは「次の大きな一歩」が必要です．

大きな歩調を，安定して歩むことは，簡単ではないでしょう．しかしそれは方向性を必要とし，人々が進むべき方向を示します．最終的に，未来に行きたい人はそこに向かって進むでしょう．

「一般的な技術」には，すでに制限はないのです．ゴールもない代わりに，もはや人々の興味もないのかもしれません。

私たちは大きな壁を定義し，それを乗り越えて見ましょう．これは実際には，既に存在していた壁で，かつ我々の現在の社会で認識されていない壁なのかもしれません．それは非常に複合収束的なゾーンであり，ゲーム内や，ウェブだけでなく，また学術社会のためだけでもないはずです．

Laval Virtual ReVolution2013に参加して，

「次の大きなステップ」の定義に貢献して下さい．

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白井暁彦 博士(工学)

神奈川工科大学・日本