Several very different areas of discussion were pursued. First up was the next CUG meeting, which will be held in Stuttgart, Germany, next summer. There is a great deal of interest in putting together a real-time, interactive, collaborative demonstration during the conference. If you are interested, please use this e-mail address to join the group and participate in this discussion. In addition, we will try to support live demonstrations for presenters who may wish to incorporate such into their talks.
T here is still a lot of interest in the area of application steering.
Many sites are acquiring Origin2000 systems with integral Infinite Reality Engines. It will be interesting to see what is presented at the next meeting, by which time users will have had some time to experiment with these new systems. We should see not only an increase in the use of traditional visualization techniques, but the opportunity for new paradigms that may have been impractical until now. Another area that received much discussion was that of immersive visualization. Many sites have now installed, or are planning to install, one of the various types of immersive visualization systems.