ACE 2006 in Hollywood
Starting tomorrow - ACE 2006 here in Hollywood.
The field of computer entertainment technology has aroused great interest recently amongst researchers and developers in both academic and industrial / business fields as it is duly recognized as showing high promise of bringing on exciting new forms of human computer interaction. Now deemed deserving of both serious academic research, as well as major industry and business uptake, techniques used in computer entertainment are also seen to translate into advances in research work ranging from industrial training, collaborative work, novel interfaces, novel multimedia, network computing and ubiquitous computing. The purpose of this conference is to bring together academic and industry researchers, artists and designers and computer entertainment developers and practitioners, to address and advance the research and development issues related to computer entertainment.
As part of the conference, IMD is hosting a reception in the ZML and GIL starting at 7pm, Wednesday evening, 6/14. It will include several live interactive events for ACE conference attendees:
- "Tracking Agama", an Alternate Reality Game that invites users to explore downtown Los Angeles like never before.
- "Andrew Rivolski", a real-time collaborative game experience played by teams in matching room-sized immersive video environments over a 10G link between USC and Keio University in Shonan Fujisawa, Japan.
- "SnapShotMapPlot" , a preview of a Mixed Reality project collaboration between the Mixed Reality Lab at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and the Interactive Media Division. In the game, one player attempts to catch the other while avoiding AI predators. One player (the ‘Terran’) is outdoors, running around the USC campus, while the other (the ‘Avian’) flies around a 3D Model of the USC campus.
[Also, recent IMD grad, WIll Carter presented at ACE2004 in Singapore and posted about it here:
Carter, W., Fisher, S. "Mobile Sound Communities". Proceedings of Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology (ACE), Singapore (June 2005).]