This document summarizes events from the Laval Virtual 2016 conference on virtual reality. It announces a follow-up event on April 20th in Paris to discuss the conference, featuring keynotes from researchers on topics like virtual avatars and the brain, augmented reality for learning, and using VR in healthcare. It also advertises workshops on light-field displays and superhuman sports simulation. Finally, it provides information on an open VR demo competition for 2017 focused on embodying users in virtual worlds.

1. Retour Laval Virtual 2016
VRIC + ReVolution
Rencontres Réalité Virtuelle – Retour Laval Virtual 2016
le 20 avril de 18h à 22h dans les locaux de Cap Digital
Akihiko SHIRAI, Ph.D
Chair of Laval Virtual ReVolution
Kanagawa Institute of Technology, Japan

2. Keynotes
Workshop + Aural Presentation
ACM VRIC: Virtual Reality International Conference
Dr. Pattie Maes, MIT Media LaboratoryPr Alain Berthoz, College de France
Virtual avatars and real brains: how do they interact? AR and VR for learning and collaboration
Dr. Oliver Bimber, Johannes Kepler Univ. Linz
Light-Field Technology: A Revolution to Imaging and Display
Dr. Carolina Cruz-Neira, Emerging Analytics Center, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Beyond Fun and Games: VR as a Tool of the Trade
Christine Perey, AR for Enterprise Alliance
The Future of Work with Augmented Reality
Dr. Skip Rizzo
Director for Medical Virtual Reality Institute for Creative
Technologies - Research Professor USC Davis School of
Gerontology and USC Keck School of Medicine Department of
Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Beyond Video Games:
A Virtual Reality Revolution in Behavioral Health

3. Workshop + Aural Presentation
ACM VRIC: Virtual Reality International Conference

4. Special Session on Friday
14:00-14:20 Opening Address “Real-Virtuality”, Prof. Akihiko SHIRAI (KAIT)
14:20-14:30 “IVRC to Laval Virtual / Jack and the Beanstalk”, Mr. Shota SUGIMOTO, (Univ Keio)
14:30-14:50 “Embodied Media”, Prof. Kouta MINAMIZAWA (Univ keio)
14:50-15:00 “Metamorphosis Hand: Interactive Experience of Embodying Virtually Transformed Hands”, Nami
Ogawa (Univ of Tokyo)
15:00-15:30 “VR to Superhuman Sports” Prof. Masahiko INAMI (Univ of Tokyo)
15:30-16:00 Round table and debate, exchanges with the audience
http://superhuman-sports.org/
ACM VRIC: Virtual Reality International Conference

5. Open Competition of VR demo
Technical innovation / Interaction
Academic + Public demo testing
Theme “Real-Virtuality”
…Realizing Virtual, Bring real to virtual, Fantasy to be Real…
ReVolution

6. AR/VR Contents, and next year
Thierry Frey, chair of AR/VR contents and VR Startup Contest. At Final day of Laval Virtual 2016

7. Submission deadline: end of year (31/Dec/2016)
Theme: Beyond visuals, Bring your body (temp.)
See you next year in Laval 