[collaborative-vr] a question

[Burling, Nono]

I attended a different Amigos online conference recently and thought it was excellent so it got me thinking.  I should reach out to Amigos and see what online platform they use.  I’ve explored a little  and my limited research  took me to this one<http://www.vconferenceonline.com/backpages/demovideoreg.html>.  A few years ago I hosted an in person VR conference and we filled a 9-3 day with no problem.  My goal for that was to share knowledge but also to have everyone meet f2f.  I felt like we all worked together but didn’t really know each other.  It was a real hit with my community.  Here’s the conference schedule<https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5-gN8jl3wgmSC1XTC1SYmxGYzg/view?usp=sharing> so you can see the topics we covered. While I’d love to do that again I simply don’t have the time this year.  Why I think hosting it online would be less work I’m not sure but…  I think if we reach out across our communities we could get an interesting series of sessions.  We might even be able to get a good keynote speaker like Marie Radford who is a specialist in research into VR.  Really it’s kind of a vague idea right now but hey, nothing ventured nothing gained right?

Nono

From: Carla Steinberg Pfahl [mailto:pfahl001 at umn.edu]
Sent: Monday, April 23, 2018 11:23 AM
To: Burling, Nono <nono.burling at sos.wa.gov>
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Subject: Re: [collaborative-vr] a question

Hi Nono,

I think it's possible. Would there be any interactive components to the sessions? That may be more appealing and provide a richer experience for all. Amigos did something similar in 2016, but not completely devoted to VR: https://www.amigos.org/node/3685 <https://www.amigos.org/node/3685>

Is there enough on VR to cover a full day online conference with appeal for a wide audience? I think so but it is ambitious!

Not sure if this was helpful or not.

Carla

On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 4:01 PM, Burling, Nono <nono.burling at sos.wa.gov<mailto:nono.burling at sos.wa.gov>> wrote:
Hi Collaborative VR group, I have a question for you.  It is annual review time at my office and that also means writing up goals for next year.  An idea that has been floating in my head for a while was to host an online conference on the topic of Virtual Reference.  I’ve attended a couple of online conferences in the last year and have felt them to be quite good.  I think the software has progressed enough to now make this possible.  But since it would be held online it could be opened up way beyond Washington State.  I’m thinking of putting it in as a work goal for next year but what I would really like is to have participants from all over – heck why not say the world!.  The wider it is opened up the more interesting presentation ideas we could get.  I don’t think it would be very expensive to do (she says blithely). There are software packages that will help you manage multiple sessions etc.

So while this is not any sort of commitment I wanted to gauge if there is interest.  I’d planned to bring it up at our next meeting but my goal setting meeting is happening before then so I wanted to at least take a pulse. Intrigued?

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