Metaverse Working Group

Agenda & Meeting Minutes

Date:  February 1, 2017

Time: 2:00 PM EST / 11:00 AM PST

Location:  BlueJeans - https://bluejeans.com/133355606

Agenda

1.  Introductions for first time attendees
   
   
2. Collaboration Tools for Group Work
   • Listserv mailing list - https://lists.internet2.edu/sympa/subscribe/metaverse
   • Bluejeans web conferencing - https://bluejeans.com/133355606
   • Confluence Wiki - Metaverse Working Group Home
     • Access for participants?
   • Box or Google Drive? - Everyone is comfortable with both
   • Slack - Ben mentioned that Internet2 is using Slack, and Sara will set up a server and send invite to everyone in the list.
     
     
3. Metaverse Working Group - VR/AR Technology Survey (Draft)
   • Draft survey - https://goo.gl/forms/EZq9kanheIpnfTSv2
   • Gurcharan suggested adding "Room-based VR" as an option
   • Separate issue to collect information if people wish to voluntarily be included in a Member Directory
     
     
4. KINBERCON - Pittsburgh, PA, April 3-5, 2017 http://kinber.org/events/annual-conference/
   
   • Virtual and augmented reality demonstration 
   • 1/2 day workshop
   • Anyone interested in participating in a panel, let Ben know 
     
     
5. Internet2 Global Summit - Washington, DC, April 23–26, 2017 http://www.internet2.edu/news-events/events/global-summit/
   • Metaverse Working Group meeting agenda
     • Introductory Remarks & Welcome - Ben Fineman
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6. Upcoming guest speaker schedule
   • March - Kevin Robuck, Oracle - Worked previously on Project Wonderland, Oracle is doing some work with mobile VR in higher education, possibly with GearVR.
   • April - In-person meeting at Global Summit
   • May - Dr. Adam Kiefer, Director of Research Education, Division of Sports Medicine, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
   • June - 
   • July - 
   • August - 
   • September - 
   • October - 
   • November - 
   • December -
     
     
   • Possible candidates:  
     • Josh Carpenter, Mozilla, 
     • Janus VR, Joe can find out if someone from Janus can speak, Ben also knows James McCray(sp?)
     • Amazon Lumberyard
     • High Fidelity - advertising as open source
       
       
7. Open Discussion/Announcements
   • Patrick at Brown is working with visualization, Interest in VR on the web
   • Photogrammetry - Share software packages being used