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The 1st International Workshop on Massively Multiuser Virtual Environments (MMVE 2008) at IEEE Virtual Reality 2008

http://peers-at-play.org/MMVE08/

March 8th, 2008 Reno, Nevada, USA

With the increasing number of potential users of virtual and augmented reality systems, as indicated by the recent booms of massively multiuser online societies, the design of distributed, massively multiuser virtual environments (MMVEs) becomes increasingly important, posing new requirements on both distribution platforms and virtual reality systems. Facing these challenges is a community-spanning effort, necessitating the pooling of the resources and experiences of the virtual reality and the networking/ distributed computing communities. This workshop hopes to provide a link between these communities to foster the development of highly distributed, flexible and robust virtual environments. We aim to gather the practitioners and researchers in these fields under one roof to discuss their findings, incite collaborations, and move the state of the art forward.

Keynote by Jon Watte (CTO, Forterra Systems)

Jon Watte will give a keynote at the workshop, in which he'll describe some surprising places virtual worlds have been adopted; what the future looks like; and some sketches for open research areas.

In addition to his job as CTO of serious virtual world platform company Forterra Systems, Jon is a regular contributor to the independent game development community. A Microsoft DirectX/XNA MVP and moderator of the Multiplayer and Networking forum on independent games site GameDev.Net, Jon has several published articles in the field and has spoken on the future direction of the interoperable 3D web on several occasions. He combines practical experience with solid theoretical underpinnings to bring success to the field of massive-scale, interactive distributed simulation. Prior to heading up Forterra Systems, Jon worked on products such as There.com, BeOS, and Metrowerks CodeWarrior.

Important Dates

Submission Deadline: January 26th, 2008 Acceptance Notification: February 7th, 2008 Camera Ready Version: February 9th, 2008 Workshop Date: March 8, 2008

Organizers

Gregor Schiele, University of Mannheim, Germany Daniel Weiskopf, Universiy of Stuttgart, Germany Ben Leong, National University of Singapore, Singapore Shun-Yun Hu, National Central University, Taiwan

Program Committee

Dewan Tanvir Ahmed, University of Ottawa, Canada Christian Bouville, IRISA, France Bing-Yu Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Kuan-Ta Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Yiorgos Chrysanthou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Mike Eissele, University of Stuttgart, Germany Abdennour El Rhalibi, Liverpool John Moores University, UK Joerg Haehner, University of Hannover, Germany Aaron Harwood, University of Melbourne, Australia Jehn-Ruey Jiang, National Central University, Taiwan Pedro Morillo Tena, University of Valencia, Spain Jauvane C. Oliveira, LNCC, Brazil Juan Manuel Orduna, University of Valencia, Spain Shervin Shirmohammadi, University of Ottawa, Canada Gwendal Simon, ENST Bretagne, France Sandeep Singhal, Microsoft Corporation, USA Shinichi Ueshima, Kansai University, Japan Arno Wacker, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Krzysztof Walczak, Poznan University of Economics, Poland Suiping Zhou, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore