Call for Demos/Exhibits
INTRODUCTION
IMMERSCOM focusses on multi- and cross-disciplinary research on capturing, processing, analyzing, coding, communication, and rendering of rich audio-visual content in order to enable remote immersive experiences of objects and environments. The body of technologies that enable such immersive remote experiences is collectively referred to as immersive telecommunications technologies. Applications of immersive telecommunications technologies can be varied, and include telepresence, industrial automation, health care, education, and entertainment. Since many of these are potentially green technologies, in an era of increasing energy costs, they would likely increase in commercial importance in the near future.
DEMOS/EXHIBITS PROPOSALS
When a picture speaks a thousand words, demonstration of an immersive telecommunication system should speak millions. If any conference calls out for practical demonstration of its capabilities, this one does. A demonstration provides a unique opportunity to flaunt your results before an enthusiastic and informed audience, as well as a special chance to obtain expert feedback on user experience and expectation in your varied application scenarios. Such perspective can be crucial in the drive to find commercial placement for research ideas. Demonstrations are intended to be a major theme of IMMERSCOM, and we invite researchers from academia and industry to structure their demonstrable work for presentation either at the conference site itself or, if bulky, at their work location in the San Francisco Bay area. If sufficient participation is attained, we will organize a round-the-bay bus tour to bring conference attendees to demonstrations in various locations in the area.
If what you wish to show is a system component, or otherwise not in need of much serious infrastructure, we welcome your sharing of technical achievement in the form of a poster or exhibit.
Please submit your proposal with a brief description of the system and setup requirements, as well as your intended venue, to the Demo/Exhibits Chair, Harlyn Baker by Oct 1, 2008.