[Ieee_vis] Conferences: Call to Express Interest in Remotely Participating in IEEE VR 2020

[IEEE VR Publicity]

As part of our long term goal to increase the sustainability and
accessibility of the conference, this year IEEE VR 2020 (
http://ieeevr.org/2020
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is hosting a collection of online social virtual spaces for people who
cannot travel to Atlanta during the week of March 22-26th. These web-based
3D spaces will be accessible in tradition 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.

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).

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.

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 http://ieeevr.org/2020/online/
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If you might want to take part in this experience, we would appreciate if
you could fill out this brief survey so we can gauge potential interest.
https://forms.gle/5sZ4RPpt5YRxn9z46
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As part of the survey, you will be given the option to opt in to be
notified when it is possible to register for the event, as well as being
notified about opportunities to join in pre-conference social activities,
brainstorming, and training using the Hubs technology.

Please share this with colleagues and students who might also be interested!
Thanks,
 Blair (VR co-Chair in charge of Online),    Jason, Anton, and Joshua (VR
in VR Committee)

Some additional details on the remote experience, if you’d like to check
out the technology before deciding.

The remote virtual experiences will be run using Mozilla’s social VR
platform, Hubs (https://hubs.mozilla.com
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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.)

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 discordapp.com
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to create your free account.

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