IPT98 will be held at the Scheman Building and VR demonstrations will be held at Iowa State's C2 virtual reality room during the conference. Virtual reality researchers from around the world will meet to discuss the latest in VR rooms, VR desks and VR walls. They also will provide updates on applications ranging from scientific research to entertainment. While the topics will be technical in nature, they also will be quite visual. This workshop brings together some of the brightest, most innovative people in virtual reality from throughout the world.
Virtual reality is a fledgling technology that allows people to explore new worlds.
Through virtual reality, researchers can explore the interior lighting characteristics of buildings before the first brick is laid, they can determine specific docking maneuvers for space craft that have not yet flown, and they can better understand how a drug will lock onto a virus long before the drug is produced or tested. The technology also is being widely used in the entertainment industry and in education. Virtual reality and projection-based VR systems are the focus of IPT98. The program will cover a range of topics, including screen configurations, projection algorithms, software architectures, applications and networking. VR researchers from Germany, Japan and major practitioners in the U.S. will be making presentations on topics ranging from large-scale immersive displays in entertainment and education to the limits of human vision.