Inside Iowa State: Iowa State University

INSIDE IOWA STATE
April 5, 2002

VR experts visiting campus April 7

Two Los Angeles-based experts on virtual reality and new media will speak in Howe auditorium April 7.

Larry Tuch, a screenwriter and creative consultant, will speak on storytelling in virtual environments at 7 p.m. Steve Berman, intellectual property counsel and research engineer, will speak on perpetual discovery, intellectual capital and industrial collaboration at 8 p.m.

Tuch and Berman are involved in "Ashes to Ashes/Dance Driving," a multimedia memorial to Sept. 11 being developed at Iowa State. The memorial uses technology at the Virtual Reality Applications Center.

Tuch has worked as a writer and interactive designer for Walt Disney Imagineering and Paramount Television Group. His current projects include an Internet game prototype for Paramount and an interactive simulation for the Marine Science Institute at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Berman is associate director of strategic business alliances and convergence technologies development for the University of California's system-wide Digital Media Innovation Program.