Metaverse Working Group
Agenda & Meeting Minutes
Date: February 1, 2017
Time: 2:00 PM EST / 11:00 AM PST
Location: BlueJeans - https://bluejeans.com/133355606
Agenda
- Introductions for first time attendees
- Collaboration Tools for Group Work
- Metaverse Working Group - VR/AR Technology Survey (Draft)
- Draft survey - https://goo.gl/forms/EZq9kanheIpnfTSv2
- Gurcharan suggested adding "Room-based VR" as an option
- Separate issue to collect information if people wish to voluntarily be included in a Member Directory
- KINBERCON - Pittsburgh, PA, April 3-5, 2017 http://kinber.org/events/annual-conference/
- Virtual and augmented reality demonstration
- 1/2 day workshop
- Anyone interested in participating in a panel, let Ben know
- Internet2 Global Summit - Washington, DC, April 23–26, 2017 http://www.internet2.edu/news-events/events/global-summit/
- Metaverse Working Group meeting agenda
- Introductory Remarks & Welcome - Ben Fineman
- Upcoming guest speaker schedule
- March - Kevin Robuck, Oracle - Worked previously on Project Wonderland, Oracle is doing some work with mobile VR in higher education, possibly with GearVR.
- April - In-person meeting at Global Summit
- May - Dr. Adam Kiefer, Director of Research Education, Division of Sports Medicine, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
- June -
- July -
- August -
- September -
- October -
- November -
- December -
- Possible candidates:
- Josh Carpenter, Mozilla,
- Janus VR, Joe can find out if someone from Janus can speak, Ben also knows James McCray(sp?)
- Amazon Lumberyard
- High Fidelity - advertising as open source
- Open Discussion/Announcements
- Patrick at Brown is working with visualization, Interest in VR on the web
- Photogrammetry - Share software packages being used