UK VR-SIG

What's New

• Added link to the VR-SIG mailing list archive.
• Added link to the Sixth VR-SIG conference web site.
• Added a link to the London VR group.

VR-related articles for inclusion in this server should be sent to:

Rob Ingram <r.ingram@cs.nott.ac.uk>

Introduction

Wednesday the 8th September 1993 at Loughborough University saw the launch of the UK Virtual Reality Special Interest Group. Around 40 representatives from all over the country, from industry and academia, attended the first meeting. The guest speaker was Professor Ronald Mourant from Northeastern University, USA. Attendees included employees of British Nuclear Research, BT Labs., Silicon Graphics and Virtual Presence, Europe's largest Virtual Reality company.

The UK Virtual Reality Special Interest Group (UK VR-SIG) was formed by Robin Hollands from Sheffield University and Sean Clark from Loughborough University with vital last minute help from Chris Hand from De Montfort University. The group's aims are provide a communications network for all Virtual Reality researchers and users in the UK. It aims to encourage the creation of active local VR groups, whilst at the same time maintaining national coherence. Two VR workshops are planned each year to provide a forum for presenting breakthrough technology and research.

As part of the UK VR-SIG initiative an Internet accessible electronic database has been set up which will contain up to date information about on-going research and projects within the UK, as well as providing information about VR products and services. Electronic mailing lists have been also set up to provide a mechanism for distributing information about Virtual Reality events and an electronic newsletter. A discussion electronic mail list will also be created in the near future.

At present, membership of the UK VR-SIG is free, the only limitation on membership is that all members must be active VR researchers or users, or potential VR researchers or users. Benefits of joining include being added to the electronic mailing list, contributing to the group workshops, being introduced to your local VR group, and collaborating on exciting group projects.

Membership Database

You can search the database with a string or regular expression. Or you can use the advanced search to search particular fields.

The web search interface was written by Chris Brown <c.brown@cs.nott.ac.uk> and Dave Snowdon <d.snowdon@cs.nott.ac.uk> wrote the client-server database used to store the information.

How to Join

If you wish to join the UK VR-SIG then send an e-mail message to r.hollands@nottingham.ac.uk, you will be added to the group's mailing list and will be informed of future events.

Emailing List

The UK VR-SIG's e-mailing list is the primary means of communication between the group's members. At present it contains e-mail addresses for over 80 active VR researchers and users in the UK.

To subscribe to the mailing list, send a message to <mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk> with a body of:

	subscribe ukvrsig FIRST_NAME LAST_NAME

If you wish to find a previous discussion from the list look in the mailbase searchable archive.

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