05/10/2009 - Follow jvrb_org on Twitter

JVRB has joined the social network Twitter (www.twitter.com) with a microblog for the Journal’s events, article releases and news. Thereby, the Journal invites researchers, authors, and developers from the field of Virtual Reality, Broadcasting and related fields to join, comment on and discuss the publication. Twitter offers a public, real-time medium for fast exchange and dissemination of information. The user can now participate not only via an internet browser but also by phone or from the computer desktop.

Twitter provides a blogging environment in which registered users may post small messages (limited to 140 characters) to their subscribers (“followers” in twitter jargon). Many public institutions like universities, libraries, research institutes and also conferences already use it as communication tool.

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22/04/2009 - VRIC 2008 Special Issue online

For Laval Virtual (VRIC) 2009, the Journal of Virtual Reality and Broadcasting has just published a Special Issue featuring selected best articles from the preceeding conference. Currently, the volume contains five articles from the fields of virtual reality, mixed reality, virtual environments multimodal interfaces, and medicine, representing the broad spectrum of research exhibited at the conference. The volume will be extended with additional articles and an introductionary text by the guest editors Prof. Indira Thouvenin and Prof. Dr. Simon Richir. A follow-up of the Special Issue is scheduled for the VRIC 2009 conference.

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06/03/2009 - JVRB publishes Annual Report 2008

JVRB has issued the Annual Report 2008 that documents the development of the Journal during the last year. It contains information on the submission, review and publication statistics, past and upcoming co-operations and newsworthy affairs. The downloadable PDF version is available here.

09/01/29 - CVMP 2008 Special Issue in JVRB

The Journal of Virtual Reality and Broadcasting has just invited a number of selected authors who presented their research at CVMP 2008 - the 5th European Conference on Visual Media Production to submit an extended and revised version of their articles for a special issue.

Guest editors for the CVMP 2008 Special Issue are Prof. Dr. Macus Magnor, head of the Computer Graphics Lab of the Computer Science Department at Braunschweig University of Technology and member of the organizing committee of CVMP, and Dr. Oliver Grau, lead technologist at BBC Research & Development, who is initiator and chair of CVMP.

The scope of the Special issues is Image and Video Synthesis, Matting, Registration and Matching, and 3D Reconstruction.

09/01/23 - New Reference Databases indexing JVRB articles

The number of reference databases and specialist information search engines that are indexing articles published in JVRB has been expanded:

The database “FIZ Technik ZDE” that features more than 2 million references from the field of electrical engineering and communication technology has added JVRB’s publications to its stock. The information is thereby automatically included into FIZ Technik’s database TEMA.

The publications have also been included in “GetInfo: Specialist Information on Science and Technology” hosted by German specialist information centers and the German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB) in Hannover.

You find a list of citation databases indexing JVRB here.