On 9-12 September in Rome, it will take place the symposium on “Human Centred Design for passenger’s enhanced comfort and wellbeing in Aircraft cabin” during the XXV International Congress of the AIDAA (Italian Association of Aeronautics and Astronautics).
We want to inaugurate the new category “Meeting the network” with one of the founding member of EuroVR Association: Haption.
Haption is a company which designs, manufactures and sells hardware and software solutions based on force-feedback. Founded in 2001, the company partners with the most advanced leaders to provide professional level force-feedback solutions for medical, robotic, nuclear and industrial applications. Haption has a lot of interest in Virtual Reality where their haptic device brings the sense of contact inside Virtual Environments, a thing no other technology can claim to bring.
From VR to XR Expo 2019 – 3,4 July 2019
It is time again: on 3-4. July 2019, the XR Expo takes place in Stuttgart (Germany). The focus of the event is on professional applications in industry, architecture, trading, medicine and crafting in virtual, augmented and mixed reality.
For the 2019 edition, VR expo has changed its name in XR Expo to put the focus on mixed reality technologies. XR Expo aims to be the community and meeting point for industry users, technology providers, content service providers, and researchers:
” There are now a number of fairs dealing with VR and ar, but does not offer this quality and abundance of solutions that can be used practically in companies.”
Christoph Runde, VDC CEO and XR Expo Co-Organizer
For more information visit: www.xr-expo.com
For questions and interest to be part of the XR Expo, please contact the XR Expo Team: info@xr-expo.com
Laval Virtual 2019, the International Exhibition and Conference on VR/AR & Immersive Techniques, gets to the 21st edition, which will take place on 20 – 24 March 2019.
Since 1999, Laval Virtual is the European leader in the New Technologies sector and uses of Virtual in Industry, Marketing, Heritage, Medicine, Training and many more fields.
Every year, the Laval Virtual Centre hosts an exhibition, with more than 350 exhibitor and 20.000 attendees per year, and a conference which aims to highlight the trends and prospects of the immersive technologies.
Click here and visit the official website for further information.
A new opportunity for AR & VR aficionados! It is possible to submit a paper to IJVR (International Journal of Virtual Reality – IF 0,79) and then to be automatically selected to present your paper during VRIC’19 Laval Virtual international conference on March 20-22, 2019.
The International Journal of Virtual Reality (IJVR) created on 1995, is open-source and directly indexed in HAL, Google Scholar, CNKI http://www.ijvr.org
VRIC’19 Laval-Virtual (21th edition) is the premier European conference & exhibition on Immersive (AR-VR-MR) Technologies since 1999. We welcomed 18.500 attendees during 2018 edition https://www.laval-virtual.com
VRIC’2019 gather specialists on Immersive (AR-VR-MR) Technologies from research institutions & industry, to work together and imagine the evolution of immersive technologies and their future usage scenarios within different sectors. During 3 days, the program will include invited keynotes, master classes, papers’ presentations and unforgettable social events.
Click here for further information https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vric2019
The University Alliance Doctoral Training programme is offering over 83 PhD Fellowship in three themes (applied biosciences for health, energy and social policy) across a consortium of 15 universities in the UK.
This project, which has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska Curie grant, is an unique opportunity to be part of a global network on an employer co-designed training programme with extensive connections to industry and commerce.
In fact, the Doctoral Training alliance (DTA3) is the largest multi-partner and only nationwide doctoral training in the UK. It offers PhD students a fully-funded postgraduate programme, an expert support network and improved employment opportunities. The training will produce independent, highly-employable researchers with expertise and skills in strategically-important research areas.
Teesside University (School of Health and Social Care) is offering the PhD Fellowship “The effectiveness of Virtual Reality for management of pain”.
Virtual Reality (VR) can reduce acute pain by distracting attention away from the pain while people play the games. Chronic pain is different than acute pain and is much more difficult to reduce – for example, drugs that work for acute pain do not work well for chronic pain. But people with chronic pain do use distraction to make their pain more bearable. Therefore, they may find VR useful but that has not been scientifically proven yet. This project will see whether or not VR can help people make their chronic pain more bearable.
The project will have three stages. In stage 1, the existing scientific studies on VR for pain will be closely examined to choose types of VR that might work best. In stage 2, some of the best available types of VR will be compared in a fair trial to see which produces the most relief in people with chronic pain. In stage 3, the best one of these will be given to people with chronic pain for a number of weeks. They will then describe how they used the VR and they will explain how they think it could be used to help others.
All applications should be received by 23:59 (UK time) on Monday 8 October 2018.
Interviews will commence during the week starting Monday 26 November 2018.
For more information, details of recruiting projects and how to apply, see https://unialliance.ac.uk/dta/cofund/
The project VR4REHAB is getting to the last Hackathon, which will take place in Bruges on 25, 26 and 27 October 2018.
The event, co-organized by EuroVR and Sint Maartenskliniek, consists in a 2-days workshop which gathers together entrepreneurs, patients, rehabilitation personnel as well as technical specialists to find out new ideas concerning rehabilitation with VR.
Virtual Reality (VR) is growing rapidly especially in the fields of health-care and rehabilitation. While this technology makes therapy more fun, challenging and measurable, the state of VR is still in its infancy.
The three-year project VR4REHAB will change rehabilitative care dramatically. It aims to develop new VR-applications that promote better function and outcomes for patients with disabilities.
What are we looking for?
Together, we are working to find solution for 5 themes in rehabilitation:
Who are we looking for?
We are looking for people with different personal and professional backgrounds:
Programme and locations
| Date | Hours | Location | Content |
| Thursday 25/10 | 6 pm – 9 pm | KU Leuven – Campus Bruges | Introductory presentations, situating context and challenges |
| Friday 26/10 | 9 am – 9 pm | Howest – Sportinnovatie Campus Brugge | Hackaton |
| Saturday 27/10 | 9-12h | Howest – Sportinnovatie Campus Brugge | Pitch training – Judging |
Registration and contact information
Registration is free, just send a mail to VR4REHAB@maartenskliniek.nl.
http://www.nweurope.eu/VR4REHAB
Visit the dedicated website for further information.
EuroVR has now the opportunity to bring its expertise and enrich the agenda of the Belgian hackathon with its resources. The Members of the Association are invited to take part in the event and to contribute to the hackathon as:
Please send an email to communication@eurovr-association.org specifying how would you like to contribute to the event and your availability.
EuroVR provides the opportunity to contribute to the VR4REHAB Belgian Hackathon, which will take place in Bruges on 25, 26 and 27 October 2018.
The event, co-organized by EuroVR and Sint Maartenskliniek for the project VR4REHAB, consists in a 2-days workshop which gathers together entrepreneurs, patients, rehabilitation personnel as well as technical specialists to find out new ideas concerning rehabilitation with VR.
VR4REHAB is a three-year project financed by the InterReg NWE Programme that includes seven European partners, like Sint Maartenskliniek, European Association of Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality, St. Mauritius Therapieklinik, Teesside University, Royal Free London NHS Trust, Université de Lille 1 – Sciences et Technologies and Games for Health Europe, which are working together to realize the innovation potential that emerges from the intersection of VR-technologies and the demand from rehabilitation clinics’ specialists.
EuroVR has now the opportunity to bring its expertise and enrich the agenda of the Belgian hackathon with its resources. The Members of the Association are invited to take part in the event and to contribute to the hackathon as:
Please send an email to communication@eurovr-association.org specifying how would you like to contribute to the event and your availability.
| Date | Hours | Location | Content |
| Thursday 25/10 | 6 pm – 9 pm | KU Leuven – Campus Bruges | Introductory presentations, situating context and challenges |
| Friday 26/10 | 9 am – 9 pm | Howest – Sportinnovatie Campus Brugge | Hackaton |
| Saturday 27/10 | 9-12h | Howest – Sportinnovatie Campus Brugge | Pitch training – Judging |
Visit the dedicated website for further information (English version coming soon):
http://www.nweurope.eu/VR4REHAB
http://www.fabriekenvoordetoekomst.be/mailings/Zorgeconomie/201810_Hackaton.html
A new deadline for the early bird registration has been defined: September 14th, 2018.
The conference EuroVR2018 provides one more week to take advantage of special fees. Early bird rates include: full attendance at the conference, lunch and refreshments during the conference, memory stick of conference proceedings.
You can register to the conference here.
| Early Bird | Standard | |
|---|---|---|
| Non Member | £350 | £450 |
| Member | £250 | £350 |
| Student | £200 | £250 |
| Speaker Non Member | £275 | £350 |
| Speaker Member | £225 | £275 |
| Conference Dinner | £65 | £65 |
The EuroVR 2018 conference will take place at the Savoy Place, London, United Kingdom from the 22th to 23th October 2018. It creates a unique opportunity for participants to network, discuss, and share the latest innovations around commercial and research applications. The focus of EuroVR 2018 is to present novel Virtual Reality (VR) up-to Mixed Reality (MR) technologies, including software systems, display technology, interaction devices, and applications.
Visit the conference website for more information http://www.eurovr2018.org/Pages/Registration
The events MIMOS Open Simulation Day and SimPhy – Convegno MIMOS su Simulazione Multifisica are organized by MIMOS, the Italian Movement for Modelling and Simulation, and they will take place at Casa dell’Aviatore, Rome (Italy) on November 13th and 14th, 2018.
MIMOS annually organizes its Scientific and Technical Conference on the applications of modeling, simulation and virtual reality in many areas of interest. Each edition intends to offer an overview on Virtual Reality and Simulation in Italy presenting the latest innovations in this field.