The 2020 VGTC Virtual Reality Best Dissertation Award

Virtual and Augmented Reality 2020

ith roots going back to Ivan Suther-land's research in the 1960s, virtual reality (VR) reached a plateau in the early 1990s when the promise was demonstrable in universities and research laboratories. Although we all knew we had a long way to go, hype overtook the field, leading to impossible expectations. Fortunately, a few years later the Internet became the latest hot topic, leaving VR resea...

The 2012 virtual reality technical achievement award

The 2014 Virtual Reality Technical Achievement Award goes to Doug A. Bowman of the Center for Human-Computer Interaction at Virginia Tech, USA, in recognition of research and design achievements that have significantly advanced knowledge in the fields of 3D user interfaces and virtual reality. Professor Bowman’s work on 3D UIs has resulted in both important interaction technique designs and a d...

The 2013 virtual reality career award

Majoring in mathematics, Larry Rosenblum received his BA from Queens College (CUNY) and his MS and PhD (in number theory) from The Ohio State University. Since 2005 he has been Program Director for Graphics and Visualization at the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF). From 1994 to 2005 he was Director of the Virtual Reality Laboratory at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL). For two year...

Towards Predictive Rendering in Virtual Reality Dissertation

The strive for generating predictive images, i.e., images representing radiometrically correct renditions of reality, has been a longstanding problem in computer graphics. The exactness of such images is extremely important for Virtual Reality applications like Virtual Prototyping, where users need to make decisions impacting large investments based on the simulated images. Unfortunately, gener...

Best Paper Award