2011 Joint Virtual Reality Conference
20-21 September 2011, Nottingham UK
EuroVR-EGVE
The University of Nottingham
  

JVRC 2011 WOW-Factor competition

Do you think your demo has the "WOW-factor"?

We are launching the "WOW-factor" competition. This is open to everyone - individuals, organisations, researchers, developers, academics, commercial - who feel that their demo will make people say "Wow! That's cool!".

Wow-factor entries

 

WOW-factor entry 

A Novel Framework for Closed-Loop Robotic Motion Simulation

 

Paolo Robuffo-Giardo et al (Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Germany)

 

http://www.cyberneum.de/f1/

 

Liquid Interface Demo

Liquid Interface: A ferrofluid-based, Organic User Interface 

 

Jeffrey Tzu Kwan Valino Koh, Kasun Karunanayaka and Adrian David Cheok (Keio-NUS CUTE Center, National University of Singpaore)

 

http://youtu.be/V5EMyRsLLeQ

http://youtu.be/WtA7HpuibQ

re-lionSUITLiveandVirtual

re-lion Small Unit Immersive Trainer (SUIT) - A multi-user virtual reality system for use in military, law-enforcement and civilian applications.

 

Chris Haarmeijer (Re-Lion, Netherlands).

 

http://www.vimeo.com/25032061

SAS Demo

Cospatial Join-In - A Shared Active Surface (SAS) application that has been designed to encourage children with autism to collaborate in different ways. Join-In exploits the DiamondTouch ability to distinguish between different users.

 

Laura Boffi (FBK, Italy), Eynat Gal (University of Haifa, Israel), Leonardo Giusti (FBK, Italy), Sigal Eden (Bar-Ilan University, Israel), Sara Traversari (FBK, Italy), Patrice (Tamar) Weiss (University of Haifa, Israel) and Massimo Zancanaro (FBK, Italy).

 

http://vimeo.com/21600852

FhG-FIT

Lightweight Palm and Finger Tracking for Real-Time 3D Gesture Control

 

Georg Hackenberg, Rod McCall, Wolfgang Broll (Fraunhofer FIT, Germany)

 

 

http://3dmt.georg-hackenberg.de/
IMVR

MiddleVR: a new VR plugin

 

Sébastien Kuntz (i'm in VR, France)

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEu930M0JlA



 

The WOW-factor committee will decide which demos will be posted onto the website. The submissions will be posted on this page as soon as they have been approved. It will remain there until the conference. The committee will shortlist the submissions and these will be viewed at JVRC2011 in Nottingham. The conference attendees will vote the winning submission. Good luck!

Submission guidelines

Email your entries to jvrc2011_demo@jvrc2011.org with the subject "WOW-factor competition". The e-mail must include:

  • Submitter names, affiliations and contact information
  • Title of the demo
  • Picture of the demo
  • Link to the demo

Please ensure that you have all of the necessary permission to submit the demo. JVRC2011 are not responsible for the links posted. 

 

 

2011 Joint Virtual Reality Conference

Email: jvrc2011_general@jvrc2011.org