tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60925861829597984232024-03-05T22:03:12.848+01:00Metaverse1Setting Global Standards among Real and Virtual WorldsYesha Sivanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03215832750430440319noreply@blogger.comBlogger54125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6092586182959798423.post-54913930587382165212012-04-28T10:21:00.000+02:002013-01-02T10:33:26.565+01:00EUREKA SUCCESS STORY > ITEA2 METAVERSE1<br />
BRIDGING VIRTUAL AND REAL WORLDS<br />
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A consortium of 32 organisation from 6 countries has come together to advance the workings of virtual worlds. By creating a standard interface, the METAVERSE1 project made it possible for information to be shared between different virtual worlds and the real world and has led to the development of an international standard.<br />
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<br />Tzafnat Shpakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16115026637146685486noreply@blogger.com27tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6092586182959798423.post-65565084589872373932011-12-31T14:03:00.003+01:002021-12-01T20:48:05.714+01:00[JVWR] Virtual Worlds MPEG-V and Other Standards: New Issue of the Journal of Virtual Worlds Research<br />
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The editorial team for this issue includes:</div>
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<li style="margin-left: 15px;"><strong>Marius Preda</strong>, Insitut TELECOM, France</li>
<li style="margin-left: 15px;"><strong>Samuel Cruz-Lara,</strong> LORIA (UMR 7503) / University of Lorraine, France</li>
<li style="margin-left: 15px;"><strong>Yesha Sivan</strong>, Metaverse Labs and the Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo, Israel</li>
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This issue focuses on standards for virtual worlds, with special relation to MPEG-V, the ISO standard for connecting within virtual worlds as well as to real worlds.</div>
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<li style="margin-left: 15px;"><strong>Managing Editor’s Corner: Celebrating Four Years and Planning for the Next</strong><br />Yesha Y. Sivan</li>
<li style="margin-left: 15px;"><strong>Issue Editors' Corner: The Current and Future Angles of Standards</strong><br />Jean H.A. Gelissen, Marius Preda, Samuel Cruz-Lara, Yesha Y. Sivan</li>
<li style="margin-left: 15px;"><strong>The Metaverse1 Case: Historical Review of Making One Virtual Worlds Standard (MPEG-V)</strong><br />Jean H.A. Gelissen, Yesha Y. Sivan</li>
<li style="margin-left: 15px;"><strong>Standards in Virtual Worlds Virtual Travel Use Case Metaverse1 Project</strong><br />José Manuel Cabello, José María Franco, Antonio Collado, Jordi Janer, Samuel Cruz-Lara, David Oyarzun, Albert Armisen, Roland Geraerts</li>
<li style="margin-left: 15px;"><strong>Teleportation of Objects between Virtual Worlds: Use Case: Exer-gaming</strong><br />Marco Otte, Loren Roosendaal, Johan F. Hoorn</li>
<li style="margin-left: 15px;"><strong>Assistive Technology Interoperability between Virtual and Real Worlds</strong><br />Alice Krueger, Margaret Grace Stineman</li>
<li style="margin-left: 15px;"><strong>Associating Automatic Natural Language Processing to Serious Games and Virtual Worlds</strong><br />Treveur Bretaudière, Samuel Cruz-Lara, Lina María Rojas Barahona</li>
<li style="margin-left: 15px;"><strong>Improving Reusability of Assets for Virtual Worlds while Preserving 3D Formats Features</strong><br />Rozenn Bouville Berthelot, Thierry Duval, Jérôme Royan, Bruno Arnaldi</li>
<li style="margin-left: 15px;"><strong>Virtual Hybrid Communications – A Telecom Infrastructure for the Metaverse</strong><br />Vincent Verdot, Adel Saidi</li>
<li style="margin-left: 15px;"><strong>Modeling the Metaverse: A Theoretical Model of Effective Team Collaboration in 3D Virtual Environments</strong><br />Sarah van der Land, Alexander P. Schouten, Bart van den Hooff, Frans Feldberg</li>
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<li style="margin-left: 15px;">We were joined by Tzafnat Shpak as the Coordinating Editor (she is on the Reply line)</li>
<li style="margin-left: 15px;">We have started to fine tune our reviewers list.</li>
<li style="margin-left: 15px;">We have an initial journal plan for the next two years with firm editors to 50% of the issues.</li>
<li style="margin-left: 15px;">We have started to review our publishing policy for 2012.</li>
<li style="margin-left: 15px;">Join us in our<a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Journal-of-Virtual-Worlds-Research/219823784730245"> Facebook page</a>: look for Journal of Virtual Worlds Research</li>
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Wishing you all Happy Holidays,<br />
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This is a 2-page paper on the <a href="http://www.metaverse1.org/">Metaverse1 </a>project, that describes its structure, partners, and outcomes. For a scanned PDF version see <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/yeshasivan/Metaverse1-ITEA2no10-Sep2011.pdf?attredirects=0&d=1">here </a>.<br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">For more detailed various aspects of the project see the special issue on <a href="http://jvwresearch.org/index.php/past-issues/43-mpeg-v-and-other-standards">MPEG-V and other standards</a> </span>at the Journal of Virtual Worlds Research (<a href="http://www.jvwrearch.org/">www.jvwrearch.org</a>).Tzafnat Shpakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16115026637146685486noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6092586182959798423.post-91101466978058099152011-05-09T21:22:00.010+02:002011-05-10T07:35:54.963+02:00Summary of the Metaverse1 in 3D3CWorlds (12 Videos)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKm_wG2R2tk6Ip23k5_GqVLou2LznOYZaB5IDxQc4qcXdVh1sfWdPB7pDdsn2Skw-7SreXHIVd2iZCNZ_fh90In18KWb4rCvhe1XHCwp_sbz2wfoxnK0iCGnz7xiOjiQaeNMfNrWqBoxs/s1600/2011+3D3C+Worlds.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKm_wG2R2tk6Ip23k5_GqVLou2LznOYZaB5IDxQc4qcXdVh1sfWdPB7pDdsn2Skw-7SreXHIVd2iZCNZ_fh90In18KWb4rCvhe1XHCwp_sbz2wfoxnK0iCGnz7xiOjiQaeNMfNrWqBoxs/s320/2011+3D3C+Worlds.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
Members of the Metaverse1 project participated in the <a href="http://www.3d3cworlds.com/">3D3CWorlds </a>in Israel.<br />
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The meeting was chaired by <a href="http://www.dryesha.com/">Dr. Yesha Sivan</a>, of Metaverse Labs, and Jean H.A. Gelissen of Philips research.<br />
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Meeting Agenda with Links to related videos...<br />
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1. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ocZGFgQFeY">Welcome Address</a> (Video) (see <a href="http://www.eureka-israel.co.il/">more details</a>)<br />
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<div>2. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzBUVceQJdU">Vision - The Challenge</a> (Video) (See <a href="http://www.dryesha.com/p/about-3d3c.html">more details</a>).<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><img border="0" src="http://i4.ytimg.com/vi/kzBUVceQJdU/default.jpg" /></div>Dr. Yesha Sivan, Metaverse Labs and The Tel-Aviv-Yafo Academic College, Israel<br />
3D3C Worlds will change, enhance, and at times hamper, how we learn, enjoy, work, and perform other human actions. High levels of 3D3C (3D, Community, Creation, and Commerce) must be attained in order to harness the potential. This event will benefit from the fruits of research conducted by the members of the <a href="http://www.metaverse1.org/">Meraverse1 </a>consortia.<br />
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3. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVaOOPt2em0">Vision - The Promise of MPEG-V</a> (Video)<br />
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Virtual worlds integrate existing and emerging (media) technologies that allow for the support of existing and the development of new kinds of networked services. The emergence of virtual worlds as platforms for networked services is recognized by businesses as an important enabler as it offers the power to reshape the way companies interact with their environments.<br />
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4. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXT7G9cuxa8">Vision – A Global Infrastructure</a> (Video)<br />
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Virtual worlds are a new way for people to communicate, to meet and to socialize. They are now pushing the boundaries of multilingual communication.<br />
The need for multilingual support is increasing every day making virtual worlds a very good example of fields of development where applications supporting multilinguality are becoming an absolute necessity. In order to enhance interoperability between virtual worlds, applications and corpora, it is obvious that standards should come into place. This is the main goal of MLIF and, on a more global perspective, of the Metaverse1 project.<br />
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5. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsMKz4JBuac">Use Case - Tourism</a><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsMKz4JBuac"> </a>(Video)<br />
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David Oyarzun, Vicomtech, Spain<br />
• A real application of virtual world’s integrated technologies into a real case of Virtual Travel in the Canary Islands <br />
• Virtual Travel is an evolving research validation field where the innovative technologies are tested and validated<br />
• ADML- Avatar Definition Markup Language.<br />
• Actual examples about technology exploitation into real solutions<br />
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6. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N__yypF6_YE">Use Case - Presence</a> (Video)<br />
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Senka Zubic, Bell labs, Alcatel-Lucent, Belgium<br />
Koen Willaert, IBBT SMIT-Vrije Universiteit Brussel<br />
Presence has been studied for employees as well as family members or friends.<br />
• Employees working together on a single project from different locations are often missing the social interactions that their colleagues have when in the same location. PresenceScape brings these employees together again in a single virtual location where they can feel together, have the capability to start informal communications at any time about any subject and provide more detailed presence information about the task they are doing.<br />
• A group of friends or family members that live apart and want to spend pastime together from the comfort of their homes can do this in a 3D virtual location on the Internet. Instead of being represented by avatars, the Alcatel-Lucent solution represents friends and family members by their streaming stereo image, allowing them to express facial emotions and gestures without the need to handle keyboard or mouse.<br />
Both solutions have been guided by extensive formative user research.<br />
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7. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7636YxsNf8U">Use Case - Interactive Physical Simulation in Social Presence</a> (Video)<br />
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Interactive simulation addresses the needs of virtual prototyping for the industry:<br />
• interactive simulation of physical phenomena, with a particular interest in mechanical systems featuring rigid and deformable parts, multi-body systems …<br />
• interactive and/or autonomous virtual humans able both to display realistic behaviours and to interact with their environment<br />
• interactions (motion capture, metaphors, avatar high-level control …).<br />
Current developments and recent trends in the gaming industry are turning this technology into an attractive proposition for Virtual Worlds. In Metaverse1, this has been developed to enhance the feeling of social presence through sharing unusual experience.<br />
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8. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7tfYB1zqE0">Use Case - Serious Gaming and Ambient Assisted Living</a> (Video)<br />
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Virtual Worlds are about Interaction between real and virtual humans. Talking and listening, body language, facial expressions are all vital. Behavior Markup Language is the “HTML” for controlling virtual humans in this respect. The Human Media Interaction group from the University of Twente, Netherlands, is implementing and using these techniques for applications like Virtual Guides, Sports Coaches, Health applications, or Caretaking.<br />
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9. <a href="http://draft.blogger.com/goog_347324027">Technology </a><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zStayXstMM">- Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) and Internet Of Things (IOT)</a> (Video)<br />
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Herman Tuininga, SallandElectronics, The Netherlands</div><div>WSN-SI is a shared infrastructure for Wireless Sensor Networks and can be used for indoor localization, sensor integration etc. WSN-SI is invented by Joost van Velzen and Houwer de Gues of SallandElectronics BV. WSN in general is a promising technology for different kind of applications such as; building- , industrial- and agricultural automation. It also can play a major role in low level integration for the Internet Of Things and perhaps will evolve in a new standard.<br />
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10.<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LV1-9N77Zr4"> Technology - Path Planning in Virtual Worlds</a> (Video)<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LV1-9N77Zr4"><img border="0" src="http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/LV1-9N77Zr4/default.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Roland Geraerts, Utrecht University, Netherlands</div></div><div>Navigating within a virtual world can be hard, especially for novice users. We provide automatic navigation through the world without directly controlling the motion of the avatar. Besides steering a single avatar, our technique can be used for steering thousands of non-player characters in real-time. The novelty is that we can efficiently create a 3D dynamic navigation mesh for a layered environment which can be used by characters to generate visually convincing paths in real-time.<br />
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11. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBCqMG2xMIw">Technology - Virtual Cities</a> (Video)<br />
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBCqMG2xMIw"></a>Victor Shenkar, <a href="http://geosim.co.il/">GeoSim Cities</a>, Israel</div><div>GeoSim integrated Virtual Cities are mirror replicas of real cities (‘3D-Mirror Worlds’), in which you can navigate, get useful info or network with other users. By accomplishing a remarkable 10X reduction in modeling cost and schedule GeoSim defines the leading edge of high-precision, large-scale 3D-modeling.<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVaOOPt2em0"></a></div>Yesha Sivanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03215832750430440319noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6092586182959798423.post-2809144649194176232011-05-05T09:33:00.005+02:002011-05-05T10:21:16.527+02:00<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Every month, Alcatel-Lucent puts the spotlights on a person or team for their contributions to the company in terms of innovation. This time, team members of the Visual Communication Department were selected for their work on Mixed Reality, a solution that paints partial 3D live images of people inside virtual worlds as a replacement for avatars. The realization was just one of the objectives of the team within the ITEA2 Metaverse1 project. Here's a couple of images from the article as it appeared in the Alcatel-Lucent April newspaper providing more details about the solution.</span><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT3lTipBduGvTe91aKiP4kYiqZchLAEVZzcIww5fcm-_lv9rD6JDcJanLANIOVqiMhZ2D_5Sd9XY2UuYeXuh3lOb6-FX7hhIIzCIKdWe0k0BtigXBJ2odufKJEPGcoTvDVRAacXGplds0/s1600/MR.P1.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 366px; height: 481px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT3lTipBduGvTe91aKiP4kYiqZchLAEVZzcIww5fcm-_lv9rD6JDcJanLANIOVqiMhZ2D_5Sd9XY2UuYeXuh3lOb6-FX7hhIIzCIKdWe0k0BtigXBJ2odufKJEPGcoTvDVRAacXGplds0/s400/MR.P1.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5603138278041500178" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-mNrvv-pXZif3u8NvGlOKK6-_-CzucQ5Ro1B87IjUgDWQ3-M4-0gKc_CkqW_NR96195WOpgf_ELSJqm7kBaOIuYvT0XaDyev3M9il0q8yt6wmelSamJQgON2zyzwnR8RnKf-j5CkWHcE/s1600/MR.P2.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 374px; height: 493px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-mNrvv-pXZif3u8NvGlOKK6-_-CzucQ5Ro1B87IjUgDWQ3-M4-0gKc_CkqW_NR96195WOpgf_ELSJqm7kBaOIuYvT0XaDyev3M9il0q8yt6wmelSamJQgON2zyzwnR8RnKf-j5CkWHcE/s400/MR.P2.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5603138282868385330" border="0" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioAlfsMcbjpj2yrL68hIDoKEmNvAOrM8ccYOtKB2nF9YdL8rogn75FIeVvCYHVY9-56YJZVUVXuLKJDZL-w7sEmXZYFAGwpP-ChtgIZ_z5FqKiKK9nLjlmhNhApyWsC7AcUOFAn6tVujs/s1600/MR.P3.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 364px; height: 470px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioAlfsMcbjpj2yrL68hIDoKEmNvAOrM8ccYOtKB2nF9YdL8rogn75FIeVvCYHVY9-56YJZVUVXuLKJDZL-w7sEmXZYFAGwpP-ChtgIZ_z5FqKiKK9nLjlmhNhApyWsC7AcUOFAn6tVujs/s400/MR.P3.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5603138282172028594" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP_q8HOacYSXg0qkRZUuyYPooCLe-xJcYOtmCcF5DvTZqcdH4BNqGVhNhbklPldDw8uTPHlog9SsF4cs_mbcn5xJyH0SZAxr4cZ0psyDukltCfpD6w4xybyoGUrRx4BRJgzu7Z7xaYADM/s1600/MR.P4.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 361px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP_q8HOacYSXg0qkRZUuyYPooCLe-xJcYOtmCcF5DvTZqcdH4BNqGVhNhbklPldDw8uTPHlog9SsF4cs_mbcn5xJyH0SZAxr4cZ0psyDukltCfpD6w4xybyoGUrRx4BRJgzu7Z7xaYADM/s400/MR.P4.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5603138286475949026" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family: georgia;">The referenced video's are not yet publicly available. Check out the June issue of the Bell Labs Technical Journal for more info.</span><br /></div>Sigurdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01174031535924759511noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6092586182959798423.post-80602874559392547692011-04-26T10:18:00.002+02:002011-04-26T10:18:34.023+02:00A Tale of Two Worlds: From Eureka ITEA2 Magazine<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.itea2.org/publication/download/publication/671" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://www.itea2.org/content/image/image/image/161" /></a></div><br />
The <a href="http://www.itea2.org/publication/download/publication/671">Latest issue of the ITEA2 magazine</a> has a summary of the <a href="http://www.metaverse1.org/">Metaverse1</a> project:<br />
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The METAVERSE project emerged from the ITEA PO Preparation Days in Germany in 2007. Yesha Sivan, who is also the head of the information systems programme at the Tel Aviv Academic College, presented the field of virtual worlds as one in need of standardisation. “Mobile phones started in the USA but took off with European standardisation efforts in the GSM forum,” he points out. The same type of approach was needed to virtual worlds for European leadership.<br />
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Virtual worlds bring together the fields of virtual reality and gaming. Related fields range from the <br />
economy of virtual goods, sociology and the nature of communities, and law – copyrights and ownership – to biology, such as new brain based human-computer interfaces, computer science and mathematics, particularly algorithms for 3D rendering and animation.<br />
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Israeli think tank Metaverse Labs and its founder Dr. Yesha Sivan have played a major role in the success of the METAVERSE1 ITEA 2 project that has resulted in MPEG-V a global standard on connecting real and virtual worlds.<br />
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Such worlds are basically a combination of 3D and 3C. The former involves a representation of 3D worlds in which it is possible to walk in an immersive way. The latter stands for three concepts: community in the form of a more advanced type of Facebook social networking; creation with the ability to create mainly digitally-oriented artefacts; and commerce by making it possible to make money out of it – the Internet originally was not money making but now Amazon and similar web organisations have changed the concept.<br />
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His presentation generated much interest and discussion. As a direct result, Sivan joined forces with Jean H. A. Gelissen, Senior Director Strategic Partnerships at Philips Research to form the METAVERSE1 group which involved companies from Belgium, France, the Netherlands and Spain. The goal of the resulting product was simple: to connect real and virtual worlds to enable the new medium to blossom. It involved both the theoretical framework required and four or five use cases. The project was successful in several ways:<br />
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1. It resulted in the MPEG-V virtual world standard: a very direct and concrete outcome which may only be a beginning but is an essential step;<br />
2. It came up with lots of small items that can continue to be developed – these were presented at the 3D/3C world conference (www.3d3cworlds.com) in Israel on March 23, 2011; and<br />
3. It led to the establishment of extremely strong links between the various partners which are already resulting in new co-operations.<br />
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Working with EUREKA and Europe is important for Israel, according to Sivan. “Europe is nearby so doing business there is easier,” he points out. “However, while it is a big market, it is less consolidated than the USA, although the euro zone helps. People in Israel are also more Americanised in their thinking. There is a big Israeli community in the USA and many Israelis speak English.”</blockquote>The same issue had a summary about the MPEG-V event in Korea:<br />
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The 1st International MPEG-V Workshop and Demonstration Day 2011 was organised in parallel with the 95th MPEG meeting on 25 and 26 January, 2011 in the Inter-Burgo Exco hotel in, Daegu, Korea. The purpose of this event was to present and demonstrate MPEG-V, a new standard in the MPEG range and published by ISO in November 2010. This new standard is the frst version of ISO/IEC 23005 (MPEG-V, Exchange with Virtual Worlds) initiated by the ITEA 2 Metavese1 project and co-created with a large number of partners of the Metaverse1 consortium and several companies; institutes and universities from Europe, Korea and Japan. MPEG-V-based products and applications enable multi-sensorial user experience and interchange between virtual worlds.<br />
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The standard is composed of several parts referring to:<br />
▪ Architecture and use case scenarios;<br />
▪ Syntax and semantics of data formats for interactive devices, device commands and sensed information;<br />
▪ Metadata to describe device capabilities and user preferences; <br />
▪ Metadata to represent sensory effects; and<br />
▪ Metadata to represent virtual-object and avatar characteristics.<br />
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The MPEG-V awareness day was particularly targeted to developers of products and application for multi-sensorial user experience, content creators, broadcasters, multimedia device manufacturers, sensor and actuator manufacturers, virtual worlds and online game developers, and those interested in new opportunities in digital media.</blockquote><br />
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</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> Yesha and Jean...<br />
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</div>Yesha Sivanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03215832750430440319noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6092586182959798423.post-12708993034341311942011-02-12T20:55:00.000+01:002011-02-12T20:55:12.261+01:00Our Member Map<iframe width="425" height="350" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=203640665192850638361.000474f6e81dc2b4580f0&ll=40.40188,9.293584&spn=23.864139,51.09688&output=embed"></iframe><br /><small>View <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=203640665192850638361.000474f6e81dc2b4580f0&ll=40.40188,9.293584&spn=23.864139,51.09688&source=embed" style="color:#0000FF;text-align:left">MYMT1 member map</a> in a larger map</small>Yesha Sivanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03215832750430440319noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6092586182959798423.post-5417376250687068862011-01-26T06:02:00.001+01:002011-01-26T06:03:13.056+01:00Metaverse1 booth at the MPEG95 meeting<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Jean and Yesha at the Metaverse1 booth at the MPEG-V awareness event at the <a href="http://www.mpeg95.org/">MPEG95 </a>meeting.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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"Augmented Reality on the Web"<br />
15-16 June 2010 -- Barcelona, Spain<br />
<a href="http://www.w3.org/2010/04/W3C-augmented-reality-workshop-omweb.htm" style="color: #2a5db0;" target="_blank">http://www.w3.org/2010/04/W3C-<wbr></wbr>augmented-reality-workshop-<wbr></wbr>omweb.htm</a><br />
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The workshop will take place at the Barcelona Tech University (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya) and is co-located with the Mobile 2.0 conference that takes place on the following day (17 June -<a href="http://mobile20.eu/" style="color: #2a5db0;" target="_blank">http://mobile20.eu/</a>).<br />
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Important dates until then:<br />
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* From today: Send expression of interest<br />
* 29 May: Deadline for position papers<br />
* 7 June: Acceptance notification and registration instructions sent<br />
* 15-16 June: Workshop<br />
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More information is available in the Call for Participation:<br />
<a href="http://www.w3.org/2010/04/W3C-augmented-reality-workshop-omweb.htm" style="color: #2a5db0;" target="_blank">http://www.w3.org/2010/04/W3C-<wbr></wbr>augmented-reality-workshop-<wbr></wbr>omweb.htm</a><br />
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Summary:<br />
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Augmented reality (AR) is a term for a live direct or indirect view of a real-world environment whose elements are supplemented with, or augmented by computer generated imagery. AR is a long standing topic in its own right but it has not been developed on the Web platform. As mobile devices become more powerful and feature-rich, the workshop will explore the possible convergence of AR and the Web.<br />
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The objective of this W3C workshop on Augmented Reality on the Web is to provide a single forum for researchers and technologists to discuss the state of the art for AR on the Web, particularly the mobile platform, and what role standardization should play for Open Augmented Reality.<br />
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If you have any questions, please contact Phil Archer <<a href="mailto:phila@w3.org" style="color: #2a5db0;" target="_blank">phila@w3.org</a>>.</span>Yesha Sivanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03215832750430440319noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6092586182959798423.post-50862281284439317232010-04-16T14:01:00.001+02:002010-04-16T14:03:34.447+02:00Workshop on Haptic and Audio-Visual Stimuli: Enhancing Experiences and InteractionIn this special symposium we want to address the specific effects of combined (multi-sensory) stimuli. Topics we want to address range from the effect of mutual timing in audio, video and haptic stimuli, to actuator technologies, to how to such "more than the sum of the elements" effects of multimodal stimuli are created in a user's perception.<br /><br />Date: Wednesday, July 7, 2010, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands. This workshop is organized by Twente University and Philips Research and it precedes the <a href="http://www.eurohaptics2010.org">EuroHaptics 2010 conference</a>.<br /><br />See the <a href="http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/eh2010">workshop website</a> for more information.Esko Dijkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07494771582780265197noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6092586182959798423.post-30439334870954540252010-04-13T19:18:00.004+02:002010-04-15T10:40:42.822+02:00Welcome to the April 2010 Meeting of the Metaverse1 Team<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhybr_fYITDeqtXo8w0B75l9m6oFebedOxAiBd2ktgnj6CvmGbfyc2pMpQwuhXblAKbGUnTj7p_gYpYeChK_ryQzUEjYZ7E5xjD4E_qEWhK3bxjuRWoVOhDvaUVOijVKartbtlQIV-uipg/s1600/photo+3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhybr_fYITDeqtXo8w0B75l9m6oFebedOxAiBd2ktgnj6CvmGbfyc2pMpQwuhXblAKbGUnTj7p_gYpYeChK_ryQzUEjYZ7E5xjD4E_qEWhK3bxjuRWoVOhDvaUVOijVKartbtlQIV-uipg/s320/photo+3.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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</div>Yesha Sivanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03215832750430440319noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6092586182959798423.post-53867597898964388632010-03-05T14:33:00.002+01:002010-03-05T14:38:14.292+01:00Virtual Traces: tourists sharing content in a hotel lobbyA recent report from Philips Research shows how an interactive, collaborative media system can be used by tourists to share their experiences with others in a hotel lobby. In the report, the hotel lobby context is explored to identify user needs and a concept system called CityTIP is developed and evaluated.<br /><br />Follow <a href="http://repository.tudelft.nl/view/philips/uuid%3A5bd2664c-c3ae-4564-be59-855f61a5035b/">this link</a> for the full report.Esko Dijkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07494771582780265197noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6092586182959798423.post-79058467740507021582010-02-01T19:59:00.002+01:002010-02-01T20:05:09.028+01:00Online video: Philips haptic emotions jacketFollow <a href="http://www.research.philips.com/technologies/projects/emotionsjacket/index.html">this link</a> for a video about the Philips haptic emotions jacket! The application of an immersive movie experience is shown.Esko Dijkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07494771582780265197noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6092586182959798423.post-54152010526060729492009-10-05T12:40:00.000+02:002009-10-05T12:40:49.191+02:00Poster 1: Global standards among real and virtual worldsClick to view<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLZwoHFI5E3tBoR1FLdeiOSF8p6frpnWEw5CM_UcXF0vEDtKvTovfTtf-Be8Wz4W0qsxhr0YffM5fesMsd5_sFyZA3cBI2-LRoCSRYlAQZk0X0t0AO1e_WjmT9ihyphenhyphen7fpvLxHR86JuGZ8k/s1600-h/poster+1.png"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 386px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 552px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389062372021736466" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLZwoHFI5E3tBoR1FLdeiOSF8p6frpnWEw5CM_UcXF0vEDtKvTovfTtf-Be8Wz4W0qsxhr0YffM5fesMsd5_sFyZA3cBI2-LRoCSRYlAQZk0X0t0AO1e_WjmT9ihyphenhyphen7fpvLxHR86JuGZ8k/s400/poster+1.png" /></a><br /><div></div>Yesha Sivanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03215832750430440319noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6092586182959798423.post-46413357016660933902009-10-05T12:37:00.002+02:002009-10-05T12:41:24.296+02:00Poster 2: Team MemersClick to view...<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6wS4JMCsx224QkF1HiTrZ6SbUNNcpKlAlpeClDc_IthPwCM4L9_9NmBOPpAcRtxxbvst9b2m3w24wbIWT5gfA08r_TknlXIDHxDtwMspz31eAlc7jsLn2v_XHr94YV1AOWFOd5Yg8KCc/s1600-h/poster+2.png"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 422px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 495px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389063460972921650" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6wS4JMCsx224QkF1HiTrZ6SbUNNcpKlAlpeClDc_IthPwCM4L9_9NmBOPpAcRtxxbvst9b2m3w24wbIWT5gfA08r_TknlXIDHxDtwMspz31eAlc7jsLn2v_XHr94YV1AOWFOd5Yg8KCc/s400/poster+2.png" /></a><br /><div></div>Yesha Sivanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03215832750430440319noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6092586182959798423.post-48894007177388515162009-10-05T12:36:00.003+02:002009-10-05T12:43:10.991+02:00Poster 3: Planned results: Use Cases & StandardsClick to view...<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQl3jD-H7k_vHRsXG64TPk8tWAkKKektjUkk19z7GVekBl9oYMBT0TgKZqSPy5PelrH_oCxzuEfzaOIoC_VNAqr350hkbyM5sShOC7iE5KeSPZoAyIEfbaxA2cv0bxUlruh4fJkHP89IU/s1600-h/poster+3.png"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 421px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 491px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389062979008815058" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQl3jD-H7k_vHRsXG64TPk8tWAkKKektjUkk19z7GVekBl9oYMBT0TgKZqSPy5PelrH_oCxzuEfzaOIoC_VNAqr350hkbyM5sShOC7iE5KeSPZoAyIEfbaxA2cv0bxUlruh4fJkHP89IU/s400/poster+3.png" /></a><br /><div></div>Yesha Sivanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03215832750430440319noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6092586182959798423.post-3684948760168185972009-10-02T07:58:00.002+02:002009-10-05T12:33:22.517+02:00Welcome to the Pre-Workshop in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvXsum_oHaVYki6Rh_TikVWtX9UeGTmv13OaR4hX62Ybh0MkunZw3TyD9S20_BuAYx5dfooVqteCOj6GaVF1qirvPQ7XkajrpeskXCXztvj48YRV19SRzhQw6hkO5zcV-7dOO6p3QnySg/s1600-h/mt1+v01.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 217px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389061925539219442" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvXsum_oHaVYki6Rh_TikVWtX9UeGTmv13OaR4hX62Ybh0MkunZw3TyD9S20_BuAYx5dfooVqteCOj6GaVF1qirvPQ7XkajrpeskXCXztvj48YRV19SRzhQw6hkO5zcV-7dOO6p3QnySg/s400/mt1+v01.jpg" /></a><br /><div>Here's a a picture of the team in the pre-workshop.</div><br /><div></div>Yesha Sivanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03215832750430440319noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6092586182959798423.post-18113238459346236202009-08-20T08:44:00.003+02:002010-04-15T06:54:45.226+02:00Update: student internship position at PhilipsThe description for our internship position has been updated. We are looking for a student who likes to do an internship or Master's project at Philips Research Eindhoven, The Netherlands. The assignment includes design and validation of (XML) description formats to describe haptic stimuli and effects. The description includes effect patterns (i.e. changing over time and space) and location of where these impact the human body.<br />
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If you are interested, see <a href="http://www.philips.com/about/careers">www.philips.com/about/careers</a> for the full description! Search for Job ID <span style="font-weight: bold;">60388</span>.<br />
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Or try this <a href="https://careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/client_philips/external/en/jobDetails.do?functionName=getJobDetail&jobPostId=199329&localeCode=en-us">direct link</a>.Esko Dijkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07494771582780265197noreply@blogger.com1