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San Francisco Oct 26 and 27, 1996 |
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Locations and Times
- Opening Keynote/Metropolitan III: Saturday, 9:00am to 9:50am
- Great Debate and Closing Keynote/Metropolitan III: Sunday, 2:30pm to 5:00pm
- Main Program Track/Franciscan I,II: Saturday, 10:00am to 5:30pm, Sunday, 9:00am to 2:15pm
- Grande Tour of Worlds/Franciscan III: Saturday, 10:15am to 5:00pm; Sunday, 9:00am to 2:15pm
- Special Programs/Olympic: Saturday, 1:00pm to 5:30pm, Sunday, 9:00am to 2:15pm
- Birds-of-a-Feather/Concordia: Saturday, 1:30pm to 5:00pm; Sunday, 9:00am to 2:15pm
- Avatar Standards and BOF/Metropolitan III: Saturday, 10:00am to 1:30pm, Sunday 9:00am to 2:00pm
- Exhibits/City and Cornell: Saturday, 10:00am to 5:00pm, Sunday 10:00am to 2:00pm
- Out of this World Art Gallery/Commonwealth: Saturday, 10:00am to 5:00pm, Sunday 10:00am to 2:00pm
- Press Reception/Foyer, City: Saturday, 5:30pm to 7:00pm
- SGI/Black Sun Interactive Grande Avatar Social/Franciscan I,II: Saturday 7:30 (cocktails), 8:00-11:30 (party)
CCon-VeRGe-nce Post Conference Bash: Sunday 6:00-8:00 (cocktails) at 654 Mission St.
| Track Sessions | Special Programs | Avatar Standards |
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Saturday Opening and Keynote What to do with a World? VRML 2.0 Workshop Designing Interfaces Virtual Worlds as Theater Sunday The Galactic Edge Digital Communities Worlds in Our Future Virtual Worlds in Marketing The Great Debate Closing Keynote, E2A 1997 |
Saturday Art of Electronic Community Webcasting Cyberspace Rants Birds-of-a-Feather Sunday Virtual Worlds for Learning Worlds for Gaming/Roleplay Kids in Digital Space Birds-of-a-Feather |
Saturday Avatar Standards Track I Sunday Avatar Standards Track II |
Saturday, October 26, 1996
Main Program Track
Opening and Keynote Addresses
Introduced by Bruce Damer, Contact Consortium
9:00am to 9:50am, Metropolitan III
- Mark Pesce
- Tony Parisi, Intervista
What in the World do you do with a World?
Applications of Virtual Environments
Dave Marvit, Industry Pioneer
10:00am to 11:30am, Franciscan I/II
- Maclen Marvit, Worlds Incorporated
- Randy Farmer, Electric Communities
- Mark Pesce
- Brett Leonard, Director, IS?TV
- Steve DiPaola, Onlive Technologies
VRML 2.0 Workshop
Hosted by Construct Internet Design
12:15am to 2:15am, Franciscan I/II
- Mark Meadows, John Shiple, Michael Gough or Mark Lawton
Designing Interfaces for Virtual Worlds
Hosted by Nathan Wagoner, Ducksoup Information Design
2:30pm to 3:45pm, Franciscan I/II
- Andrea Gallagher, Worlds Incorporated
- Sang Mah, LifeForms
- Stuart Gold, Contact Consortium, Bauer Gold and Associates
Virtual Worlds as Theater
Hosted by Mark Petrakis, Electric Minds
4:00pm to 5:30pm, Franciscan I/II
- Brenda Laurel, Interval Research
- Ioannis Paniaras, New Media Center/Media Lab, University of Art & Design, Helsinki, Finland
- John Sanborn
- Paul Godwin, New Dog Music and WorldSong,
- Elisa Lodge
Avatar Standards Track I
Moderated by Bernie Roehl, University of Waterloo, Virtual Humans Architecture Group
10:00am to 1:30pm, Metropolitain III
Track I Modules A Primer is available here in advance of these discussions.
Please see the detailed summary and speaker bios
Track I Participants
Participants From Universal Avatars
- Moses Ma, Velocity
- Abbott Brush, IBM
- Dan Greening, Chaco Communications
- Maclen Marvit, Worlds Incorporated
- Kirk Parsons, Black Sun Interactive
- Representative from Sony to be confirmed
- Mitra, Paragraph International
- Scott McLaine, 3rd Dimension
- Greg Oberfield, Fujitsu Software Corporation
- Steve Lane, KATrix Inc.
The Art of Electronic Community
Hosted by Cliff Figallo, GNN/Virtual Places/AOL
1:00pm to 2:00pm, Olympic
- Cliff Figallo, GNN, (formerly of The WeLL)
- Evelyn Pine, Community Memory Project, (formerly of The WeLL)
- Gail Williams, The WeLL
Webcasting as a Shared Experience for Virtual Community
Hosted by Kitty Wells, Re·Source Partnership
2:00pm to 3:30pm, Olympic
- Frank Schwartz, IS?TV
- Brett Leonard, IS?TV
- Jon Fox, Mediacast
- Other Speaker TBA
Cyberspace Rants BOF
Alternate Protocols for the Metaverse
Host To Be Announced
3:45pm to 5:30pm, Olympic
- Marc DeGroot, Immersive Systems
- Other speakers TBA and based on sign-ups
Saturday Birds-of-a-Feather (BOFs)
Discussions on various topics in the virtual realm
Saturday, 1:30 to 5:00pm, Concordia
- The Living Worlds Proposal
Presentation and discussion- 1:30pm to 2:30pm
- Avatar Cyberspace Constitution Talks
- 3:00pm to 5:00pm
Main Program Track
The Galactic Edge
A special program of Biota.org
Hosted by Bruce Damer, Biota.org
9:00am to 10:00am, Franciscan I/II
- Todd Goldenbaum and John Shiple, Gever Tulley, Construct Internet Design
- Charles Ostman
- Tony Parisi, Intervista
- Marty Stoneman, Anthrobotics
Digital Communities and Culture
Co-hosts and contributors: Wendy Sue Noah, Kitty Wells
10:15am to 11:15am, Franciscan I/II
- Linda Stone, Microsoft
- Jim Bumgardner, The Palace, Incorporated
- Judith Rubin, Fujitsu
The Worlds in our Future
Hosted by Mitra, Paragraph International
11:30am to 12:45pm, Franciscan I/II
- C. Scott Young, VRML Knight
- Michael Hilgenberg, IDS
- Other speakers TBA
Virtual Worlds in Marketing and Electronic Commerce
Hosted by Adrian Scott, Aereal
1:00pm to 2:15pm, Franciscan I/II
- David Colleen, Planet 9 Studios
- Kris Hagerman, Bigbook
- Michael Tchong, CyberAtlas
The Great Debate: Why are we doing this?
Hosted by Bruce Damer, Contact Consortium
2:30pm to 3:45pm, Metropolitan III
- Bonnie Nardi, Apple Computer
- Maclen Marvit, Worlds Incorporated
- Konstantin Guericke, Black Sun Interactive
- Reid Hoffman, Fujitsu Software Corporation
- Alexander Besher, writer, author of Rim, Novel of Virtual Reality
Closing and Invitation to E2A 1997
Hosted by Bruce Damer, Contact Consortium
4:00pm to 5:00pm, Metropolitan III
- Bruce Damer
- John Sculley, CEO, Live Picture
Avatar Standards Track II
Moderated by Bernie Roehl, University of Waterloo, Virtual Humans Architecture Group
9:00am to noon, Metropolitan III
Track II Modules
Please see the detailed summary and speaker biosTrack II Participants
- Representative members from Living Worlds
- Representative members from Universal Avatars
- Additional members of the general community
Avatar Standards Birds-Of-a-Feather (BOF)
Moderated by Timothy Childs, VeRGe/Curve Inc.
12:30pm to 2:00pm, Metropolitan III
Speakers from Living Worlds, Universal Avatars proposals,
Bernie Roehl of the Virtual Humans Architecture Group, and other participants from the
general community will be on hand to address questions from the audience in an
open microphone format.
Please see the detailed summary and speaker bios
Virtual Worlds for Learning
Individual virtual worlds projects in support of education
Sunday, 9:00am to 11:00am, Olympic
- TheU, a Virtual University, by Stuart Gold, Bauer Gold and Associates
- 9:00am to 9:30am
- 3D immersive environments for learning, by David Traub
- 9:30am to 10:00am
- VRML spaces for virtual classrooms and laboratories, by
Tim Riley, Josh Draper, dFORM
- 10:15am to 11:00am
Sunday Birds-of-a-Feather (BOFs)
Discussions on various topics in the virtual realm
Sunday, 9:00am to noon, Concordia
- Peter Rosen on Bridging Physical and Virtual Worlds BOF
New Schools for the Next Millennium- 9:00am to 10:00am (time subject to change)
- John Barrows, The Blue Wolf Network, Keith Cooley, Coolware Inc. host a
Bot BOF
- 10:15am to noon (time subject to change)
Worlds for Gaming and Fantasy Role Playing
Hosted by Rusel DeMaria, DeMaria Studios
11:00am to 12:30pm, Olympic
- Fabrice Florin, Zenda
- Mike Sellers, The 3DO Company
- Craig Alexander, Steve Nichols, Sierra Online
- Gano Haine, MPath Interactive
- Johnny Wilson, Computer Gaming World Magazine
- Eric Twelker, Sierra On-Line
Kids in Digital Space
Hosted by Larry Kay, Toonsmiths
1:00pm to 2:30pm, Olympic
- David Fox, Liveworld Productions
- Vicki O’Day, Mark Shirley, Xerox PARC
- Speakers from Starwave/Castle Infinity
- David Vronay, ImaginEngine Corp.
The Grande Tour of Worlds will consist of 30 minutes of dedicated tours of virtual environments by the companies who have created them. 15 minutes will be available for introductions, questions and set-up. For links to tour participant websites see our Sponsors Page.
| Saturday Tour Participants | Tour Time | Products to be demonstrated |
| NTT Software | 10:15-11:00am | Interspace Cybercampus |
| Microsoft | 11:00-11:45am | V-Chat, Comic Chat |
| Black Sun | 11:45-12:30pm | CyberHub, PointWorld |
| Worlds Incorporated | 12:30-1:15pm | WorldsChat, AlphaWorld |
| The Palace Incorporated | 1:15-2:00pm | The Palace |
| 3D Labs | 2:00-2:45pm | Permedia VRML Accelerators |
| OnLive! | 2:45-3:30pm | Traveler |
| Intel | 3:30-4:15pm | IDMoo |
| ITU Research | 4:15-5:00pm | TouchCube |
| Sunday Tour Participants | Tour Time | Products to be demonstrated |
| Chaco Communications | 9:00-9:45am | Pueblo |
| Fujitsu Software Corporation | 9:45-10:30am | WorldsAway |
| America Online | 10:30-11:15am | Virtual Places |
| Silicon Graphics, Inc. | 11:15-12:00am | Oobe |
| 3rd Dimension | 12:00-12:45pm | To Be Announced |
| Oz Interactive | 12:45-1:30pm | Oz Virtual |
| IDS | 1:30pm-2:15pm | V-Realm |
Table-top exhibits will be hosted in the conference area for both days to allow in-depth demonstrations and familiarization with tools, virtual worlds or services offered by sponsoring organizations. TBA means that products or services will be announced at conference time. For links to sponsor websites see our Sponsors Page.
| Exhibitor | Product Type | Announcement/Major Product to be demonstrated |
| 3D Labs | Tools, 3D Accelerator Hardware | Permedia |
| 3rd Dimension | PhotoTextured Avatar Models | Come and have your avatar made! |
| America OnLine | World | Virtual Places |
| Black Sun | World | CyberHub, CyberGate |
| Chaco/Mitsubishi | World | Pueblo 2.0/TBA |
| Closer Look and VREAM, Inc. | Tools | TBA and VRCreator |
| Coryphaeus | Tools | Avatar builder |
| Fujitsu | World | WorldsAway 2.0, Dreamscape |
| IDS | Tools and World | VRML Authoring System, V-Realm |
| ImaginEngine | Tools, technology | Avatar designer |
| Intel | World | ID-Moo |
| ITU Research | Interface Technology | TouchCube |
| KATrix | Tools, technology | TBA |
| Live Picture/RealSpace | Tools, technology | TBA |
| Microsoft | Worlds, Technology | V-Chat, Comic Chat |
| NTT Software | Worlds, Technology | Interspace CyberCampus |
| OnLive! | Worlds, Technology | Traveler |
| Oz Interactive | Worlds, Technology | Oz Virtual, TBA |
| Silicon Graphics | Tools, Technology | Cosmo authoring system, The "oobe" |
| The Palace | Worlds, Technology | The Palace server, client |
| Paragraph | Tools | Home Space Builder, TBA |
A small gallery will feature artists making expression in the virtual worlds medium.
Commonwealth room, Saturday: 10:00am to 5:00pm, Sunday 10:00am to 2:00pm
Artists
- C Scott Young: VRML Homeworlds
- Steven Hanly, Roger Zuidema, Wolf Read: Project Epona
- Frank Revi
- Karen Marcelo, Intervista
- Web Design Group - Lisa 3 Project
The Grande Avatar Social is a special evening event sponsored by Silicon Graphics and Black Sun Interactive. Attendance is included in full conference registrations and is available to all speakers and sponsoring organizations. Others may attend the party only by prior arrangement with the sponsors or by purchasing tickets for $15.00 in advance. More details will be posted here soon.
Come and be part of the Avvy Awards Avatar Contest!
Press Reception is from 5:30pm to 7:00pm in the Foyer and City Exhibit room on the mezzanine floor. Camera crews will be supported by Consortium Conference staff by advance arrangements.
Sunday 6:00-8:00 (cocktails) at 654 Mission St.
Hosted by VeRGe at the offices of Curve Incorporated just across the street from the ANA Hotel, this post conference bash will run from 6:00pm on. Coctails and snacks will be served. Just walk out of the ANA and turn left on Mission, entering at the Cyborganic/Curve offices at 654 Mission Street. The telephone number there is: (415) 882-9288.
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