VRST'99

Final Programme

Monday 20th December, 1999 - PAPERS

09.00-10.00 REGISTRATION, South Cloisters

Keynote Session

Gustav Tuck Lecture Theatre, Chair Mel Slater

10.00-11.00 Keynote Speech I

Augmented Reality Systems for Surgical Procedures and for Tele-collaboration: Experiences and Future Prospects

Henry Fuchs
Department of Computer Science
Sitterson Hall
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA.

11.00-11.30

The HiBall Tracker: High-Performance Wide-Area Tracking for Virtual and Augmented Environments

Greg Welch, Gary Bishop, Leandra Vicci, Stephen Brumback, Kurtis Keller
Department of Computer Science
Sitterson Hall
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA.

D'nardo Colucci
Alternate Realities Corporation
27 Maple Place
Minneapolis, MN 55401, USA

11.30-11.40 BREAK

Session 1 VE Systems and Evaluation

Gustav Tuck Lecture Theatre, Chair Roger Hubbold

11.40-12.10

Reality Portals

Karl-Petter Åkesson and Kristian Simsarian
The Interactive Collaborative Environments Laboratory
Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden

12.10-12.40

A Video-based Virtual Reality System

Haruo Takeda, Masami Yamasaki, Masami Yamasaki, Toshio Moriya,
Tsuyoshi Minakawa, Fumiko Beniyama, Takafumi Koike