VR@50: Celebrating Ivan Sutherland's 1968 Head-mounted 3D Display System
TimeMonday, 13 August 201810:45am - 12:15pm
LocationWest Building, Ballroom C, Vancouver Convention Centre
DescriptionThis
panel celebrates the first fully functioning 3D AR/VR system:
real-time, see-through, stereo, perspective display; and two different
head trackers: ultrasonic and mechanical (the “Sword of Damocles”). Ivan
Sutherland (“father of Computer Graphics”), and team members Charles
Seitz, Robert Sproull, Quintin Foster present. Graphics pioneer Fred
Brooks reviews the system’s impact and legacy.
Contributor/Moderator
Henry Fuchs
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Panelist/Lecturers
Ivan E. Sutherland
Portland State University
Maseeh College of Engineering and Computer Science
Robert F. Sproull
University of Massachusetts Amherst
College of Information and Computer Sciences
Charles L. Seitz
consultant
Frederick P. Brooks
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
H. Quintin Foster, Jr.
Retired Engineering Manager
Contributor/Moderator
Henry Fuchs
Panelist/Lecturers
Ivan E. Sutherland
Robert F. Sproull
Charles L. Seitz
Frederick P. Brooks
H. Quintin Foster, Jr.
Event Type
Panel