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Real-time Applications via the Internet
 
Eutelsat, European Spatial Agency, is coordinating a pilot project named VERDI (Virtual Environments for Real-time applications over the Internet) in the framework of the Artes 3 programme of ESA dealing with VR and rich media applications over satellite notably for e-learning and e-marketing. VERDI will be the subject of a presentation and demonstration at VR World Congress V. See item 202.28 for details.
 
Philippe Van Nedervelde, CEO, E-Spaces (Belgium) and Co-CEO, X3D Technologies (USA) will present "Interactive Virtual 3D World Communities" at VR World Congress V.Distributed communities are the natural next step in the evolution of networked computing. They facilitate not just mobility of content to members, but also mobility of context. To support communities on a wide scale requires developments from low-level communication protocols supporting transparent access to mobile components, through to distributed operating systems, high-level programming languages and models allowing complex interactions.
 
LAB@FUTURE focuses on three strategic e-Learning experiments for laboratory education (Science-Fluid Dynamics, Mathematics-Geometry, and Arts and Humanities). Experiments will be run at large scale involving 20-50 schools from eight countries. The underlying technologies are based on operational and scalable paradigms including Augmented Reality, Mixed Realities, Haptics, Multiuser VR worlds and mobile technologies. LAB@FUTURE will be the subject of a presentation and demonstration by Dr Costas Davarakis at VR World Congress V.
 
Partners in LAB@FUTURE are Systema Informatics (Greece), University of Helsinki (Finland), Universitaet Bremen (Germany), Parallelgraphics (Ireland), Vizualizacijo (Slovenia), Technische Universitaet Wien (Austria) and Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule Zuerich (Switzerland). Participating at VR World Congress V could help you enter an international consortium for a VR/i3D project.
Also for e-marketing, there will be a demonstration of Virtual Showroom: new ways of using 3D real-time visualization for e-commerce at VR World Congress V. See item 202.28 for details.