Girona 19 & 20 December 2007

AFRVAFRV

Association Française de Réalité Virtuelle, Augmentée, Mixte et d’Interaction 3D

French Association of Virtual Reality

Association Française de Réalité Virtuelle, Augmentée, Mixte et d’Interaction 3D

French Association of Virtual Reality

http://www.afrv.fr

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Plan

• Quick history of VR in France

• Structure of AFRV

• Main objectives of AFRV

• Our activities

• Conclusion

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Quick history of VR in France• Individual activities since 1990• GT-RV : 1994-2000 (Working Group on VR)• Platform RNTL PERF-RV 2001-2004• “Réseau Thématique Pluridisciplinaire” du CNRS (2002)

– RTP 7 (B. Perroche) : Virtual reality, Image Synthesis and Visualization

– RTP 15 (J. Droulez) : Interactions and VR • Specific Action (CNRS)

– Virtual Reality and Cognition

• “Traité de la Réalité Virtuelle” (3ème edition)– 4 Volumes, 1800 pages– 74 authors– Free in electronic form for the students (but in French !)

• Creation of AFRV : November 2005

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Quick history of VR in France

• Conferences, workshops and seminars– GT-RV workshop 1994-2000, international in 1999

and 2000– « Interface des mondes réels et virtuels »,

Montpellier from 1992 to 1997– « Les rencontres de la réalité virtuelle », Chalons-

sur-Saône since 1998– Laval Virtual, International Conference and

Exhibition, since 1999 in Laval– Virtual Concepts, Biarritz since 2002, à Cancun fin

2006– 1er workshop of AFRV : 13,14 Nov 2006, Paris– 2nd workshop of AFRV : 26, 27 Oct 2007, Marseille

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Structure of AFRV

• Structure – Members (28 November 07)

• individuals : 151 members• Laboratories : 25 members• Industrials : 22 members

– Executive committee• 8 individuals• 4 Laboratories• 4 Industrial

– Board of the Executive Committee• Bruno Arnaldi: President• Philippe Fuchs: Vice-President• Anatole Lécuyer and Daniel Mestre : secretary• Jean-Louis Dautin: Finance• Guillaume Moreau: Communication

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Main objectives of AFRV

• 3 tasks:– Promote the development of VR and AR

for:• Research• Education• Applications

– Give to AR/VR community a communication tool in order to create synergies inside community

– Communicate toward national and/or international institutions

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AFRV activities

• Annual workshop

• 120 attendees in 2006, Paris

• 175 attendees in 2007, Marseille

• Scientific papers, Posters, Industrial presentations and laboratories presentations

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AFRV activities• AFRV Newsletters

– « Rêverie » : • newsletter of GT-RV (Gérard Subsol)• 232 numéros since 1993 • Périodicity 1 month

– Journal de l’AFRV• Some articles (Industry, …)• Periodicity 2 or 3 months

• Institutional discussion• Imagina 2008 : organisation of a

round table by AFRV• Laval Virtual 2007 : best scientific

paper award• ANR RNTL, TecSAN• GDR IG

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Conclusion

• We are a very young association !

• We have a lot of things to do ….

• What about a European level ?