History
The Engineering Reality of Virtual Reality Conference was formed in 1994, with founding chair, Mark Bolas. Over the past decades, ERVR has collaborated extensively with the Stereoscopic Displays and Applications conference in joint sessions and proceedings publications.
An overview of the recent conference proceedings is available from here. Access to the joint proceedings with Stereoscopic Displays and Applications conference in the early years is available in this full listing of all proceedings volumes.
2024
In 2024, ERVR co-hosted two special sessions on Virtual Reality 1 and 2, as well as contributed to the demo session.
2023
At the EI 2023 in Burlingame – which was fully run in-person after two years of online conferencing, ERVR came with the following special sessions: VR Systems and Immersion, AR/VR Special Session 1 and 2, as well as Stereoscopy in VR, a joint session with Stereoscopic Displays and Applicaitons.
2022
At the online EI 2022, ERVR hosted two sessions on VR topics, View/Narrative/Actions in Virtual Reality and Simulation, Embodiment, and Active Shooters in VR .
2021
At the online EI 2021, ERVR hosted two joint sessions with the Stereoscopic Displays and Applications conference, and also hosted a demonstration of “Server-aided 3D DICOM viewer for mobile platforms,” Menghe Zhang and Jürgen Schulze, University of California San Diego (United States).
2020
At EI 2020, early Wednesday morning ERVR joined in the Imaging Sensors and Systems Conference keynote, “Mixed-reality guided neuronavigation for non-invasive brain simulation treatment.” Mid-morning on Wednesday, ERVR co-hosted a joint session on urban and enterprise applications of augmented reality with the Imaging and Multimedia Analytics in a Web and Mobile World 2020 Conference. Wednesday afternoon, ERVR co-hosted the returning “Visualization Facilities” joint session with Stereoscopic Displays and Applications XXXI Conference. On Thursday, the core ERVR conference sessions explored applications. of augmented reality, immersive and virtual reality environments, and LiDAR sensor fusion.
2019
For EI 2019, ERVR co-hosted joint sessions on Tuesday and Wednesday. On Tuesday ERVR co-hosted the “Visualization Facilities” joint session with Stereoscopic Displays and Applications XXX. On Wednesday morning, ERVR co-hosted the “360, 3D, and VR” session with Stereoscopic Displays and Applications XXX. Then on Wednesday afternoon, the ERVR program incorporated the Light Field Imaging and Display theme day symposium session. On Thursday the core ERVR conference sessions included the sessions “Going Places with VR,” “Recognizing Experiences: Expanding VR,” and “Reaching Beyond: VR in Translation.” Finally, ERVR hosted the final session of the EI 2019 medical imaging virtual track, “3D Medical Imaging VR” session on Thursday afternoon.
2018
In 2018, ERVR co-hosted joint sessions on Tuesday and Wednesday. On Tuesday ERVR co-hosted the Bioinformatics sessions with Stereoscopic Displays and Applications XXIX. On Wednesday ERVR co-hosted the Immersive Imaging sessions with two other conferences, Photography, Mobile, and Immersive Imaging 2018, and Stereoscopic Displays and Applications XXIX. The Wednesday program also included a reprise of the Visualization Facilities joint session with Stereoscopic Displays and Applications XXIX. On Thursday the core ERVR conference sessions kicked off with a keynote by Dr. Jason Leigh, Director at the Laboratory for Advanced Visualization and Applications (LAVA), University of Hawai’i at Mãnoa; and Director Emeritus-Electronic Visualization Lab, University of Illinois at Chicago. Leigh teaches classes in Software Design and he has been teaching Video Game Design for over 10 years. In 2010 his video game design class enabled the University of Illinois at Chicago to be ranked among the top 50 video game programs in US and Canada.
2017
The Engineering Reality of Virtual Reality 2017 conference spanned two days with keynotes by Gregory Dawe, Industrial Designer from the Qualcomm Institute (also known as Cal IT2) and Todd Margolis, Qlik Product Manager. Greg spoke about the history of projection display systems describing how the first CAVE Automatic Virtual Environment was designed to the new multi-panel stereo displays such as then CAVE2 and the WAVE Augmented Virtual Environment. Todd presented research and deployment at Qlik about state of the art collaborative visual analytics.
ERVR 2017 began with several case studies. One of these examined AR use in medical training. AR devices have been around for many decades but are finally becoming affordable and viable as a consumer device. Through direct representation of 3D space and integration with haptic controls, AR brings many benefits to a user during training scenarios, namely increased knowledge acquisition and direct applicability.
Subsequent presentations explored head-mounted displays and CAVE environments, augmented reality registration challenges, use of natural body gestures in VR environments, and artistic expression and creative experiences in VR, among other topics.
The joint session on Visualization Facilities with the Stereoscopic Displays and Applications Conference brought together researchers from Newcastle University’s Digital Institute, the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at The University of Illinois at Chicago, the Advanced Visualization Lab at Indiana University, UC San Diego’s Calit2, the Immersive Analytics initiative of Monash University and the University of Konstanz, and the Curtin University HIVE visualization facility, in a rare world-spanning discussion of recent advances and current challenges.
The conference included a field trip to a local company, Qlik, a business software firm that provides solutions for data visualization and visual analytics. The field trip was hosted by Todd Margolis following his keynote address on visual analytics and collaboration. At Qlik, we saw demonstrations that are real world solutions using graphical outputs, flat panel displays, and virtual reality systems.
1994-2016
Access to the joint proceedings with Stereoscopic Displays and Applications conference in the early years is available in this full listing of all proceedings volumes.