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From: harry@harlqn.co.uk (Harry Fearnhamm)
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Subject: Re: Meckler Conference Taking Place NOW, in London!
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   From: cyberoid@milton.u.washington.edu (Robert Jacobson)
   Subject: Meckler Conference Taking Place NOW, in London!
   Date: Fri, 31 May 1991 04:30:59 GMT
   Organization: Human Interface Technology Lab, Univ. of Wash., Seattle

   This is a reminder to our European friends, and especially those in
   Northern Europe, that the Meckler Conference on Virtual Reality takes
   place in London this weekend and/or the first part of next week.  I
   have no details, so anyone who can post the calendar and roster should
   do so.  The HIT Lab will have a few delegates there, as will most other
   VR labs in North America and Britain.  The newsgroup welcomes reports
   from any attendees.

Unfortunately I went expecting an exhibition with a conference
attached.  It turned out to be the other way round, but given the
limited amount of commercial development in Britain, that's hardly
surprising.  There was nothing new over the Computer Graphics
Exhibition last November in London, but that too is hardly surprising.
There were no University Groups demonstrating, either, which might
have been a good idea - does this reflect the limited amount of
academic VR research in Britain (someone enlighted me here!), or is it
just the way the conference turned out?  I could only afford the
proceedings - I wish these things weren't so expensive!!!

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[MODERATOR'S NOTE:  Is "VR" passing out of the exhibition -- I almost
said, "circus"! -- mode, or is this just a passing hiatus in the cycle
of commercial conferencing?  Only the NIKKEI and SIGGRAPH meetings will
tell!  Stay tuned, fellow celebrants.  Thanks again, Harry, for the
report.  Think of the Proceedings' cost as an investment in your
great-grandchildrens' future.  They should fetch a nice price in the
future.  I hang onto MOST of my VR memorabilia.

[Sorry about the editorializing, friends.  Back into my moderator's
shell...  -- Bob Jacobson]