<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><b id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-f7ead5b1-7fff-a2b9-dfb6-dd491a6ef1c9" style="font-weight:normal"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">As part of our long term goal to increase the sustainability and accessibility of the conference, this year IEEE VR 2020 (<a href="https://ieeevrpublicity-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1Hq7YtN0F5ozdTKqa5UIxcegrfouKuDoxHjwijz7Td2g-1941588608&key=YAMMID-24650090&link=http%3A%2F%2Fieeevr.org%2F2020">http://ieeevr.org/2020</a>) is hosting a collection of online social virtual spaces for people who cannot travel to Atlanta during the week of March 22-26th. </span></p><br><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">These web-based 3D spaces will be accessible in traditional browsers on most devices, and in VR via WebVR. This experimental track is IEEE VR’s first step toward future conferences adding even more meaningful remote experiences for people who are not able to physically attend the conference. </span></p><br><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">We are looking for volunteers to help make this program work, acting as guides, moderators, and support for attendees, to help ensure this is a great experience for everyone.  If you are interested in taking part in the remote experience and might consider volunteering to help, before or during the conference, please read on! </span></p><br><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">(Note: we are looking for volunteers who will not be attending the conference in Atlanta.  If you are a student and interested in being a student volunteer at the conference, you should look at </span><a style="text-decoration:none" href="https://ieeevrpublicity-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1Hq7YtN0F5ozdTKqa5UIxcegrfouKuDoxHjwijz7Td2g-1941588608&key=YAMMID-24650090&link=http%3A%2F%2Fieeevr.org%2F2020%2Fcontribute%2FstudentVolunteers.html"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">http://ieeevr.org/2020/contribute/studentVolunteers.html</span></a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> and apply before the Feb 9th deadline!)</span></p><br><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">As many conferences now do, IEEE VR 2020 will be live streaming video of the technical paper sessions and keynotes (information will be available on the VR website closer to the conference).  Taking advantage of these streams, we are creating 3D social spaces for remote participants to co-watch the talks with others, socialize and meet each other. We will also use these 3D social spaces to host a virtual poster session (for a subset of the posters whose non-attending co-authors would like to present remotely). </span></p><br><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">We expect all of the online activities this year to take place synchronously with the conference, which will generally be 9:00-17:00 EST during the week of March 22-26th.</span></p><br><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">More information about these activities, URLs for the twitch streams, and links to register for the remote social experiences, will be available soon on the IEEE VR2020 website at <a href="https://ieeevrpublicity-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1Hq7YtN0F5ozdTKqa5UIxcegrfouKuDoxHjwijz7Td2g-1941588608&key=YAMMID-24650090&link=http%3A%2F%2Fieeevr.org%2F2020%2Fonline%2F">http://ieeevr.org/2020/online/</a></span></p><br><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">To sign up as a possible volunteer, please fill out this form:</span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;text-indent:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><a style="text-decoration:none" href="https://ieeevrpublicity-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1Hq7YtN0F5ozdTKqa5UIxcegrfouKuDoxHjwijz7Td2g-1941588608&key=YAMMID-24650090&link=https%3A%2F%2Fforms.gle%2FycCoCWkb8sQDoxU18"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">https://forms.gle/ycCoCWkb8sQDoxU18</span></a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> </span></p><br><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Please share this with colleagues and students who might also be interested!</span></p><br><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Thanks, we will be in touch soon,</span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">    Blair (VR co-Chair in charge of Online),</span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">    Jason, Anton, and Joshua (VR in VR Committee)</span></p><br><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Some additional details on the remote experience, if you’d like to check out the technology before deciding.</span></p><br><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">The remote virtual experiences will be run using Mozilla’s social VR platform, Hubs (</span><a style="text-decoration:none" href="https://ieeevrpublicity-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1Hq7YtN0F5ozdTKqa5UIxcegrfouKuDoxHjwijz7Td2g-1941588608&key=YAMMID-24650090&link=https%3A%2F%2Fhubs.mozilla.com%2F"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">https://hubs.mozilla.com</span></a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">). Hubs is unique in that it is entirely browser based, and users can join from any browser, both on 2D screens and in VR displays.  (Please visit the Hubs website to explore it, if you are curious, but note that Hubs is designed to be private-by-default, so there are no lobbies or rooms to join with others. To share an experience, you would create a room and share the URL with others.  The Hubs community discord server, linked off the Hubs website, is a good place to meet others who use Hubs, and learn more about it.)</span></p><br><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">We will be using Discord for online chat, and as the authentication system for the Hubs spaces.  Discord is similar to slack, but (unlike Slack) you use one Discord account for all discord servers you join. If you have not used Discord, visit <a href="https://ieeevrpublicity-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1Hq7YtN0F5ozdTKqa5UIxcegrfouKuDoxHjwijz7Td2g-1941588608&key=YAMMID-24650090&link=http%3A%2F%2Fdiscordapp.com">discordapp.com</a> to create your free account.</span></p><br></b></div></div>
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