IVRC is the acronym of "International collegiate Virtual Reality Contest", which has been held since 1993 and is the contest of Interactive products using advanced technologies such as virtual reality and robots. Our English name changed for internationalization in 2004, because we began to invite awarded teams from the French VR contest "Laval Virtual". When you hear the words such as "Virtual Reality" and "robot", you should feel that special expensive machines are nessesary to realize them. Though, there are many ideas which can be actualized only with handmade machines. The main purpose of this contest is for participants to gain deeper understanding of and familiarity with interactive technologies through activities such as planning interactive systems, making devices themselves, and improving quality of their contents.
IVRC is not only a contest, but also the cooperative attempt of district, industry, and academy, to construct the new education system for the 21st century to develop the excellent human resources, who can think, learn, and work for themselves.
The IVRC consists of 4 stage examinations, a documentary, a presentation, a preliminary contest in Tokyo, and a final contest in Gifu. <a href="../recruit/prize.php">Production Cost Support and Awards</a>We provide the production cost support for the participants who pass the presentation examination. Moreover, for the participants who gain fine rating in the final contest, there are extra prizes for the development of participants and their products including the invitation to the Laval Virtual in France and the submittion support for the SIGGRAPH in the U.S.A.. For more information, see "Production Cost Support and Award". Documentary examination and Presentation examinationIn the documentary examination, the judging committee members review project proposals from participants and select teams for the presentation examination. In the presentation examination, teams introduce their products and the judging committee selects teams for the preliminary contest. The above two examination are closed for the protection of ideas. In the presentation examination, participants are requested a very short presentation of their products and adequate answers against hard questions from judges. For more information, see "Presentation examination". <a href="precompe.php">Preliminary contest</a>In the preliminary contest, participants give the interactive exhibition that let people experience their products. The teams for the final contest are selected through the examination of academic experts and the vote of exhibition visitors. For more information, see "Preliminary contest". Venue: 1F Event Zone, the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, Tokyo Term: September 16-17 2006 <a href="gifu.php">Final contest</a>In the final contest teams which passed the preliminary contest and the 2 invited teams from the Laval Virtual collegiate contest in France give the interactive exhibition that let people experience their products. The judge committee examines and gives prizes. For more information, see "Final contest".
Venue: Techno Plaza, Kagamihara, Gifu
Organizer
IVRC executive committee(The Virtual Reality Society of Japan / Gifu prefecture / Kagamihara city) BenefactorsMinistry of Economy, Trade and Industry(not fixed), Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology(not fixed) Sponcers |
