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This event will be mainly in Japanese 主に日本語

Professor Shirai will be doing English Event the same day
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First what is Laval virtual?

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In Japanese

Laval Virtual - regional development with VR - In Japanese Laval Virtualをご存知ですか？ 　フランス中西部のロワール地方，マイエンヌ県の県庁所在地 Laval市は， 中世の雰囲気漂う乳製品などが有名な街．ポスト印象派のアンリ・ルソー（Henri Julien Félix Rousseau）の生家がある静かで美しい街です． それだけではありません．この都市は近年特に注目されている主要なIT技術の一つであるVirtual Realityで地域振興を長年続けている， ヨーロッパ最大のVR地域振興都市です． 　本イベントでは，18年続く毎年春に開催されているVRに関連するフェスティバル「Laval Virtual」について紹介します． 　 国際会議ACM VRIC，Exhibition, 学生コンテスト，Startup-company contest, AR/VR contents, 世界中の先進技術デモが集まるReVolution，EON RealityをはじめとするLavalを拠点とするグローバルカンパニーの活躍や，大学都市，都市計画について，また日本とフランスのVR業界をつなぐ架け橋である学生VRコンテスト「IVRC」( http://ivrc.net/2016/ )についても紹介します． VR関連の技術，研究開発，ビジネス，コミュニティに興味がある人々の参加を歓迎します！

In English

Do you know "Laval Virtual"? In the Midwest of France, in the Loire region, the prefectural capital of Mayenne, the city of Laval is a beatiful medieval city. Famous for its dairy products like Camanbert cheese. However, it is not only known for that. Virtual Reality research and development as for a long time now be an attraction of the city worlldwildly.From 1998 to be precise.
So, it may be the one of the biggest VR regional development in the entire world.
In this event, Dr/Prof Akihiko SHIRAI, (Kanagawa Institute of Technology, Japan), who is a session chair of Laval Virtual ReVolution, will introduces you to the festival "Laval Virtual".
It is continuing for 18 years, every spring. It bring the latest VR with entire world and local public people and industries.
We will also introduces the International conference "ACM VRIC", Exhibition, Startup-company contest, AR/VR contents, emerging technology demonstration "ReVolution", active and of a global company based in Laval, including EON Reality, University City, for urban planning, and also introduces you student VR contest IVRC, which is a bridge that connects the French and Japanese VR community IVRC.

We welcome who are VR-related technologies, research and development, business, and people who are interested in the world VR community!

Our Main Presenter will be Professor

Akihiko Shirai

His Twitter is a good source of information or his Facebook
For a Japanese Backgroud refer to his Wikipedia Page

This event will be inspired by this event
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Important

This event will be mainly in Japanese 主に日本語

In English Professor Shirai will participate to this event.
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Content

We will talk about
1) VRIC(international conference in VR)

2) IVRC(international student competition) Japanese
In English

3)ReVolution(open competition of innovative VR demo)
in Laval Virtual.

Documentation

This event is possible with the active collaboration of
French tech
Orange labs

Some images took By Professor Shirai of the last Laval Virtual

Image Bank of Laval Virtual
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Promotion videos of Laval Virtual,
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Promotion videos of Laval Virtual,
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