[LINK] Defence Industry Workshop on Extended Reality in Canberra, 5 November

[Kate Lance]

XR is also shorthand for Extinction Rebellion, so it'll be interesting to
see which acronym has the longer lifespan.

Regards
Kate


On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 09:12:44AM +1100, Tom Worthington wrote:
> The ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science is hosting a Defence
> Industry Workshop on XR, Tuesday 5 November. Defence and government
> organizations, as well as industry, and academia, are invited to attend:
> https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/xr-crc-defence-workshop-tickets-76186187939
> 
> The Australian National University (ANU), is investigating the establishment
> of an Extended Reality Cooperative Research Center (XR-CRC) with other
> universities. The term XR includes augmented reality, virtual reality, and
> other forms of computer generated simulations, using wearable, and other
> technology. For more details contact Dr Penny Kyburz, Senior Lecturer,
> Human-Centred Computing, ANU CECS.
> https://cecs.anu.edu.au/people/penny-kyburz
> 
> ps:  It happens I was the Defence representative on a joint industry project
> to produce a graphical user interface in the early 1990s. Unfortunately the
> Web came along and made our work obsolete. ;-)
> http://www.tomw.net.au/itinpdpj.txt
> 
> 
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