6:00 - 8:20 p.m.
The Bell Technology Group, Conference Room
295 Lafayette Street, 3rd Floor (Puck Building, corner of Houston)

Speakers
Michael St. Hippolyte will demonstrate Chisel, a VRML optimization tool that strips unnecessary code from VRML files.
(2nd speaker to be announced)

6:00 - 8:20 p.m.
The Bell Technology Group, Conference Room
295 Lafayette Street, 3rd Floor (Puck Building, corner of Houston)

Speakers
Doree Seligmann of Lucent Technology/Bell Labs
(2nd speaker to be announced)

This 3D user group for high end Mac animators has been meeting for almost four years. It is primarily a user-driven group, with demos of techniques, product reviews, problem solving and display of recent projects by users, for users. The group has become very popular among New York 3D users and we typically get anywhere from 40-60 members at each meeting.

Starting in March we will be meeting at Bell Technologies on the third floor of the Puck Building, 295 Lafayette Street (at Houston). Meetings take place the third wednesday of every month from 6:00 to 9:00pm. There are no registration fees, and we invite you to show examples of your recent work. We notify members of meetings via e-mail, so if you'd like to be put on our mailing list, send a note to Dave Teich (mindmachine@mindspring.com).

Our current host is Video Corporation of America but we have grown too large for that facility. We will be having our last meeting there on Wednesday, February 25th, at 6:30pm. VCA is located at 370 7th Avenue, 5th floor, about a block south of Penn Station. e-mail now and you'll be on the mailing list for the February group announcement. We look forward to seeing you there!

Dave Teich
Chairman

The entire meeting will be webcast live using the streaming video technology from Graham Technologies Solutions (GTS), which is installed and operating at Electronic Café International (ECI) in Santa Monica.Webcasts implementing GTS streaming video are the most widely available live events on the Web because no plug-ins are required, to see the video and hear the audio live. All that the client browser requires is to be Java enabled. Graham Technology Solutions (GTS): http://www.graham.com

For those who can not make it live to the meeting in Santa Monica, and for those people in other parts of the country, and the world, the webcast will be accessible through the ECI Web Site, at http://www.ecafe.com, and the LA VRML Users Group Web Site at http://vrml.LAVUG.org/worlds/multiuser.html

We are pleased to announce that we will be joined live from Cupertino, via his own streaming video technology, by John Graham, Chairman and Co-Founder of GTS. John will discuss and demonstrate the results of his early experimental efforts to stream live video using the GTS System, texture mapped directly onto the 6 surfaces of a 3D cube in the ECI multiuser VRML World (Presented by Pascal Bauder at last month's meeting).

This will be the first attempt by GTS and ECI to publicly demonstrate streaming video within VRML, and everyone is excited to learn more about, and see the results of this initial experimentation. Preliminary attempts have been highly successful and this new integration of this highly interactive Web media will add a significant new dimension to the emerging world of live streaming media. John will be joined by our own LAVUG member Mitch Williams who is adding the required Java expertise to the development efforts of the project.

The meeting will conclude with Dave Blackburn’s presentation of VirtuaLive, the VRML sports replay system from Orad, Inc. VirtuaLive is a complete end-to-end production system for rapidly converting video clips of sports highlight into 3D VRML animated replicas of the actual plays.

Admission to the meeting is $5 for LAVUG members and $10 for non-members.
Additional information, will be on the LAVUG's web page by Saturday afternoon (2/7).
The Electronic Cafe International is located at: 1649 18th Street Santa Monica, California 90404-3807
Visit the Electronic Cafe International's website to get personalized directions.

Parking: Limited in the parking lot.
Also park on 18th Street or Olympic Blvd

ECI Contact:
Telephone: (310) 828-8732
Email: ecafe@netcom.com
LAVUG Web Page at http://vrml.LAVUG.org/worlds/
Mail list info: http://vrml.LAVUG.org/worlds/maillist.html

If you have any questions, please email Carole Sumler sumler@isi.edu