Virtual Reality will be one of the key technologies within future Working Environments having multiple applications in training, assembly or engineering design & development scenarios. Strongly depended up to now on IT technologies, VR technology introduction in industrial applications has been processed in an unorganised way, lacking long-term vision.

The technology has evolved providing the user with advanced interaction options through innovative devices or menus while enhancing the feeling of user presence within Virtual Environments While solutions for the migration of huge CAD models within VR systems are getting more reliable, numerous applications using VR setup emanate.

Such a vastly evolving field makes it difficult to keep up with all novel developments and applications. To make this even worse a lack of knowledge transfer from research labs to industry and the limited number of collaborations among the academia and industry community has been posing another barrier for further developments.

To overcome these barriers the links among the VR community (including research, academic, industrial sectors) should be strengthened by allowing

experts to interact with each other and get in touch with all recent developments. To overcome fragmentation a roadmap towards future initiatives and developments should be defined based on a common framework establishment and a common understanding of technology potentials and limitations. To facilitate this goal the first INTUITION International Workshop on Virtual Reality aims at bringing VR experts together by allowing them to get in touch with up-to-date VR developments from the major stakeholders in the field.INTUITION is the largest Network of Excellence operating under the 6 Framework of the European Commission (IST) aiming at structuring the European Research Area on Virtual Reality and guide future developments in the relative field by becoming a world-leading group. To serve this scope all major European stakeholders (58 partners) coming from either the research and academia area or from various industrial sectors have joined forces within this Network. One of the major scopes is to spread excellence within the relative scientific domain and this is served also within this workshop As INTUITION officially starts on September 2004, participating in this workshop will assist in building up the necessary communication links and facilitate a fruitful interaction among VR community members.

Institute of Communication and Computer Systems

Helsiniki University of Technology

Alenia Spazio

ICIDO Gesellschaft für innovative Informationssystem mbH

Commissariat A L'Energie Atomique

Institut National de Recherche et de Sécurité

Centre for Research and Technology Hellas

Italdesign-Giugiaro S.p.A.

Center of Applied Technologies in Neuroscience

Max-Planck Institute of Biological Cybernetics

C.R.F. Società Consortile per Azioni

University Transilvania of Brasov

Fraunhofer Gessellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung e.v.

ONDIM

Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique

Ovidius University of Constanta

University of Nottingham

PERCRO Scuola Superiore Santa Anna, Pisa

University of Salford

Poznan University of Economics

Volvo Technology Corporation

Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Français

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland

Space Applications Services

Advanced Realtime Tracking GmbH

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich

Alenia Aeronautica

Technische Universitaet Muenchen

Association pour la Recherche et le Developpment et Processus Industriels

TECNATOM S.A.

BARCO N.V.

Telecom Italia Learning Services S.p.A

S.C.N.R. TECH S.R.L

Template Graphic Software Europe

Centre Lavallois de Ressources Technologiques

TNO

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

Communications & Systèmes

University of Cyprus

Dassault Aviation

University of Geneva: MIRALab

EADS Space Transportation GmbH

University of Malaga

École Nationale D'Ingénieurs de Brest

University of Patras

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

University of Sussex

Electricite de France R&D

University Of Twente

Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas

University of Valencia-Robotics Institute

Foundation of the Hellenic World

University of Warwick

France-Telecom R&D

University of West Bohemia

Fundacion LABEIN

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