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  Design Festival 2014

The 4th Virtual Design World Cup 2014

The 2nd Cloud Programming World Cup 2014


Greetings
We, FORUM8, succeeded in closing their 28th fiscal year with record high sales. Although we incurred a big loss in the fiscal year in which Japan was afflicted by big earthquake struck, we sprung back quickly, earning more revenue and profit than the previous year for the following 3 consecutive fiscal years. Our success is the fruit of the support from our valuable users, and we would like to send them our gratitude from the bottom of our heart.

The "UC-1 series" that we first released in 1981 have evolved significantly, with the release of "UC-1 Engineer's Suite" last fiscal year and "UC-1 Engineer's Suite Addition" in October 2014. Thanks to these new releases, the linkage between each and every stage of construction from design calculation and quantity calculation to cost estimation, which is the ultimate goal of CIM, can be reinforced with our lineup of UC-1 series products.

Furthermore, we released the latest version of Engineer's Studio®, our premier product of the FEM Analysis series, Version 4. This new version has many new features including the ability to input dynamic data at multiple points. We also started offering the FEM Engineer's Suite, a suite of several programs including the heat stress solid analysis program FEMLEEG, a number of FEM Ground Analysis series products, and Engineer's Studio®. As we welcome the new era of performance design, we will support your CIM based projects via highly precise 3D analysis.

In August we released version 10 of UC-win/Road, our premier VR software for which we were granted the Software Products of the Year Award from SOTIC (Software Information Center) in 2002. The new release incorporates various new features including the ability to import road profiles and 3D models from DWG/DXF files and export 3D VR models, a function unique to the new DWG tool which supports the entire work flow of creating VR-drawings that promotes CIM. The software is being used not just in the field of construction but also in many other fields and disciplines in a wide range of applications, particularly as an ideal tool for simulation and visualization to assist the R&D of ITS and autonomous driving technology. It powers many different Driving Simulators in use throughout the world, and is continuously being chosen as the software to be used for many types of system integration projects to develop a made to order Driving Simulator.

Last year we moved our Tokyo Head Office to the 21st floor of SHINAGAWA INTERCITY Building A. It is our pleasure to host "The 8th FORUM8 Design Festival 2014-3Days" in the seminar room in our head office and in the nearby Shinagawa Intercity Hall. We have many events planned for the festival including the 15th UC-win/Road Conference and the 8th Design Conference, both of which are held and well received every year.

As part of the new plan, we have inserted a new session, the first "National Resiliency Design Award Ceremony", into our program. We will also announce the publication of 3 new books published by FORUM8 Publishing Group – "Behaviour-Security-Culture (BeSeCu)", "Recommendation for ICT Global Collaboration", and "Analysis for Food Risk in an Urban Area" at the book launch party scheduled for the evening of Day 2.

We would like to sincerely ask you to attend the event by all means.

FORUM8 Co., Ltd. CEO Yuji Ito

PDF Invitation for FORUM8 Design Festival 2014-3Days (PDF, 21P, 6,167KB)

< General information of the Festival >
Venue  Shinagawa Intercity Hall MAP
Participation fee  Free of charge (Registration in advance recommended)
Organization
 FORUM8 Co., Ltd
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Technical Support
A-21F FORUM8 Presentation room 13:15-17:00 
11/19Wed  FEM Analysis Series  Engineer's Studio®
 FEMLEEG / Geotechnical Series
 Analysis Support Service
11/20Thu  UC-win/Road  UC-win/Road VR-Cloud®
 UC-win/Road Support System
 3DVR Engineering Service
11/21Fri  UC-1 Series  UC-1 Design Series
 UC-1 Engineer's Suite
 UC-win/UC-1 Customization Service

Our developers will answer your question you may have on products' operation.
*Prior registration is required. Please fill the form below.

11/19Wed
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11/21Fri 
CIM Hands-on Experience area In this area of the room, we will support our valuable users using UC-1 Design series in introducing CIM to their own projects, by giving them assistance on how to use 3D drawing/VR, and how to run various kinds of analysis/simulation to add value to their projects.


Announcement on the presentations
Simultaneous
interpretation
All presentations marked by this icon will be interpreted simultaneously.

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Invitation for Premium Users of FORUM8 products

11/22 Sat
Special golf competition and Mt. Fuji / Linear tour for Premium Users of FORUM8 products

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*You can either choose the tour or the golf competition but not both.
*FORUM8 will pay the cost of tour itself. However, applicants are responsible for the accommodation fee and travel fee to the gathering spot.
Application : Please tell your contact person of FORUM8 staff if you join each of these.
PDF Invitation for FORUM8 Design Festival 2014-3Days (PDF, 21P, 6,167KB)
11.19 Wed
The 15th UC-win/Road Conference

This year will be the 15th of UC-win/Road conference. The lectures by Ministry of Transport of China to which FORUM8 completed the delivery of the 8DOF large-scale motion based driving simulator, the latest research utilizing driving simulation and the case examples about high-performance motion system will be given. Also, the latest functions, development plans, and related solutions related UC-win/Road Ver.11 will be given as well.
 Driving Simulation Sessions  Venue : Hall
13:00-14:00
Special lecture 1
"Development of the 8DOF large scale driving simulator"
Rong-ruy Zhou
Director of Road Safety Research Center, Ministry of Transport of China
14:00-14:50
Special lecture 2
"Latest research towards the realization of green mobility society and the use of VR simulator"
Tetsunori Haraguchi
Specially Appointed Professorof Nagoya University
14:50-15:00  Break 
15:00-15:25
Greetings
from an adviser
"The job improvement and management reforms"
Hiroshi Komori
Former vise president of Central Motor Co.,Ltd. (current TOYOTA MOTOR EAST JAPAN, INC.), now an advisor of FORUM8 Co., Ltd.
15:25-15:55
Presentation 1
"Latest function of UC-win/Road Ver.11 and its future development"
Pencreach Yoann
FORUM8 Technical Manager of VR Development Group
15:55-16:45
Special lecture 3
"The test system linked with the new VR provided by Virtual Test Drive (use of MIL-SIL-HIL-VIL)"
Sukenori Kobayashi
President of IPG Automotive
16:45-16:55
Greetings
from an adviser
"The future of vehicle development generating user's thrill and pleasure"
Hiroshi Fujiwara
An advisor of FORUM8 Co., Ltd. / Former Honda Motor Co., Ltd. RAD
16:55-17:10
Presentation 2
"The latest information about FORUM8 DS solution"
Katsumi Matsuda
FORUM8 Executive officer, Manager of System Sales Group
17:10-17:30
Presentation 3
"Case examples about dveloping VR Driving Simulator"
Takuya Miyamoto
FORUM8 System Development Group
 Technical Support  Venue : FORUM8 Presentation room
13:15-17:00 FEM Analysis Series
Our developers will answer your question you may have on products' operation. *Prior registration is required. Please fill the form below.

11.20 Thu
The 15th UC-win/Road Conference General Sessions  

Prof. Edwin R. Galia from University of Greenwich who is an authoer of "Behaviour-Security-Culture (BeSeCu)" will give his presentation about EXODUS/SMARTFIRE - The Latest Research on Fire Analysis and Evacuation Analysis and Case Studies.
 General Sessions  Venue : Hall
 The 13th 3DVR Simulation Contest on Cloud
  Results Annoucement and Award Ceremony
9:30-10:30
Special lecture 1
"EXODUS/SMARTFIRE - The Latest Research on Fire Analysis and Evacuation Analysis and Case Studies"
Edwin R. Galea
Professor from University of Greenwich and Founding Director of Fire Safety Engineering Group
10:30-12:00
Award Ceremony
The 13th 3DVR Simulation Contest on Cloud 
Results Annoucement and Award Ceremony

Presenter : Satoru Machida
Advisor of Projection Mapping Association of Japan / CEO of AmbientMedia / Part-time advisor of FORUM8
12:00-13:15
Buffet for lunch
Premium users of FORUM8 products are invited.



This is our 13th 3DVR simulation contest, which is held every year since 2002 when UC-win/Road won the "Software Product of the year" award. Various brilliant works have been presented as a main event of this festival and it has brought even more excitement with the introduction of cloud voting via VR-Cloud® since 2011.

The 1000 FPB points are provided for those who vote after viewing all VR data! 100 winners selected in a drawing will receive 1000 yen of the original book coupon.



The 8th Design Conference IM&VR Sessions

Lectures in the fields including architecture, civil engineering, IT, etc. as well as the latest technology and development information of FORUM8's IM&VR solution and 3DVR Engineering Services will be given.
 IM&VR Sessions
 The 4th VDWC / The 2nd CPWC Award Ceremony Venue : Hall
13:15-14:20
Open Judgement
Final judgement of The 4th VDWC / 2nd CPWC
A presenter : Ryuta Ieiri
14:20-15:10
Special lecture 2
"Developing process -from information technology to designing space -"
Takehiko Nagakura
Associate Professor of Massachusetts Institute of Technology
15:10-15:35
Special lecture 3
"Recommendation for ICT Global Collaboration"
Toshiro Kawamura
Former vice president of NEC, President of Collabo Business Consulting
15:35-16:00
Special lecture 4
"VR technology for supporting urban design"
Zhen-jiang Shen
Professor of Kanazawa University
16:00-16:10  Break
16:10-16:40
Presentation 1
"IM&VR solution and 3DVR engineering service"
Masayoshi Tatsumi
FORUM8 VR Support Group
16:40-17:40
Award Ceremony
Award Ceremony for the 4th VDWC / 2nd CPWC
A presenter : Yuji Abe and Ryuta Ieiri



The 8th Design Conference Geotechnical Sessions

We will have Special Lectures focusing on research and development examples by FORUM8 users of the geotechnical analysis series. Mr. Toshihiro Hanada of BULLD GEOTECHNO Co., Ltd., will introduce the analysis examples via UWLC and GeoFEAS and moreover Associate Prof. Fei Cai of Gunma University who is an author of the book "Introduction to Geotechnical Analysis - The New Edition" and Associate Prof. Kana Nakatani of Kyoto University who is the developer of "Kanako" which is a debris flow simulator.
 Geotechnical Sessions  Venue : FORUM8 Seminar room
13:15-14:05
Special lecture 5
"Examples of "GeoFEAS" Application for analysis of self-weight consolidation settlement occurred at the time of seismic liquefaction"
Toshihiro Hanada President, Bulld Geotechno Co., Ltd.
14:05-14:55
Special lecture 6
"Geotechnical FEM analysis technology and its case example"
Fei Cai, Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Engineering, Gunma University
14:55-15:05 Break
15:05-15:55
Special lecture 7
"The latest case example of debris-avalanche analysis - An evaluation that caused a change in the way in which buildings and terrain ought to be built and set -"
Kana Nakatani, Associate Professor of Agriculture Department, Kyoto University
15:55-16:30
Presentation 2
"The latest information of FORUM8's Geotechnical Analysis Series Products"
Yoshiaki Mizuno
FORUM8 UC-1 Development Group 1
 UC-win/Road Technical Support  Venue : FORUM8 Presentation room
13:15-17:00 UC-win/Road
Our developers will answer your question you may have on products' operation. *Prior registration is required. Please fill the form below.



11/20 Thu Hall Foyer 17:40-19:40
Premium users of FORUM8 products are invited.
Concert by our impressive guests
Networking Party / Book Launch Party



Special offer on the books published by FORUM8 Publishing Group
We will offer all books published by FORUM8 Publishing Group including the latest release "Introduction to Geotechnical Analysis - The New Edition" at a special price.
Newly published books

"Behaviour-Security-Culture (BeSeCu)"
- Human behavior in emergencies or disasters: A cross-cultural investigation -

written by Prof. Galea of Greenwich University, UK


"Recommendation for ICT Global Collaboration"
written by
Toshiro Kawamura, President of Collabo Business Consulting


"Analysis for Food Risk in an Urban Area" - From disaster mitigation to risk management -

written by Prof. Masaru Morita of Shibaura Institute of Technology

11.21 Fri

The 8th Design Conference Design, Analysis and Seismic Sessions
The 1st National Resilience Design Award
Results Annoucement and Award Ceremony

Prof. Satoshi Fujii who is an author of "Resilience of national salvation" and the other lecturers will be invited to give their lectures regarding Design, Analysis and Seismic. Moreover FORUM8 staff will introduce the latest functions of FEM analysis products including Engineer's Studio® supporting dynamic multipoint input, FEMLEEG for solid analysis of heat stress and services via those products.
  Design, Analysis and Seismic Sessions
 The 1st National Resilience Award Award Ceremony
  Venue : Hall
9:30-10:30
Special lecture 1
"The lates National Resiliency"
Satoshi Fujii
Professor of Graduate School in Kyoto University
10:30-12:00
Award Ceremony
The 1st National Resilience Design Award
Award Ceremony
12:00-13:15
Buffet for lunch
Premium users of FORUM8 products are invited.
13:15-14:05
Special lecture 2
"Development of the comprehensive platform regarding the initial stress analysis of concrete structures" 
Tadaaki Tanabe
Professor emeritus of Nagoya Univeristy
14:05-14:55
Special lecture 3
"Case studies of FEM analysis for concrete bridges"
Teisaburo Hanafusa
Tsuyoshi Yokota
Kentaro Fujimoto
P.S. Mitsubishi Construction.
14:55-15:20
Presentation 1
"The latest function of Engineer's Studio® and FEMLEEG"
Masakichi Yanagi
FORUM8 Analysis Support Team of UC-1 Development Group 1
15:20-15:30  Break
15:30-16:20
Special lecture 4
Case studies of Engineer's Studio®(plan)



The 8th Design Conference CIM Sessions

Regarding CIM which is becoming a growing trend recently, Mr. Seigou Ogata of Advanced Construction Technology Center will be invited to have a lecture about the current status and future development of the lifecycle including research, design, construction and maintenance etc.
 CIM Sessions  Venue : Hall
16:20-17:10
Special lecture 5
"Approach to CIM field and the latest trend"
Seigou Ogata
Advanced Construction Technology Center.
17:10-17:30
Presentation 2
"CIM technology information and case study of technical support services"
Kazuyuki Tomioka
FORUM8 Analysis Support Team of UC-1 Development Group 1

The 7th International VR Symposium  

International VR Symposium in which the research and projects via VR (UC-win/Road) are presented is going to be held for the purpose of spreading VR technology every year. This will be our 7th symposium and the summer workshop this year was held in Hawaii.
 The 7th International VR Symposium Venue : FORUM8 Seminar room
9:30-12:00
(15 min each)
World16 Presentation

Presenter :
Yoshihiro Kobayashi
Prism lab. Of Arizona State University, representative of FORUM8 AZ

"Drone&VR : Research for 3D modeling via UAV(Unmanned Aerial Vehicle)"
Matthew Swarts, Georgia Institute of Technology
"Laser scanner for research about the cave of bats"
Thomas Tucker, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
"Organic parking : The parking's booking system on cloud"
Kostas Terzidis, Associate Professor of Harvard University
"Real-time system for urban planning via VR-Cloud®"
Tomohiro Fukuda, Osaka University
"Case examples of the linkage of interective devices and VR"
Taro Narahara, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT)
"Research for use of VR in Pisa, Italy"
Paolo Fiamma, Professor of University of Pisa
"Online education research via VR"
Amar Bennadji, Associte professor of Robert Gordon University
"Example of VR application for research an ancient culture"
Ronald Hawker and Ron Arya, University of Alberta
"VR application for 4D construction project"
Wael Abdelhameed, University of Bahrain



The 8th Design Conference Water Works Session

Mr. Hideaki Yamaga of Nihon Suiko Sekkei Co., Ltd. and Mr. Anthony Kuch of XPSolutions will have their lectures about heavy rains disaster which Japan recently has a lot and the case examples of flood analysis via xpswmm respectively.

 Water Works Session  Venue : FORUM8 Seminar room
13:15-14:05
Special lecture 6
"Case studies via xpswmm"
Hideaki Yamaga
Nihon Suiko Sekkei Co., Ltd.
14:05-14:55
Special lecture 7
"The latest case studies of flood simulation model xpswmm 2014"
Sudesh Mudaliar
Vice President - Asia Pacific of XP Solutions Inc.
Anthony Kuch
Vice President - Americas of XP Solutions Inc.
14:55-15:05
 Break
15:05-15:55
Panel Discussion
Presenter : Atsushi Nakamura
FORUM8 UC-1 Development Group 1
15:55-16:45
Special lecture 8
"Analysis of flood risk in urban area : The current situation and tasks"
Masaru Morita
Professor of Shibaura Institute of Technology
16:45-17:25
Presentation 3
"The latest information of FORUM8's water work design software"
Isamu Okaki
FOURM8 UC-1 Development Group 1
 UC-win/Road Technical Support  Venue : FORUM8 Presentation room
13:15-17:00 UC-1 Series
Our developers will answer your question you may have on products' operation. *Prior registration is required. Please fill the form below.
Site Information
Access Map to SHINAGAWA INTERCITY Hall

Access
8 minutes walks from Konan exit of Shinagawa station ( Tokaido/Sanyo Shinkansen, JR Yamanote line, Tokaido line, Yokosuka line, Keihintohoku line and Kyokyu line)

*There is no designated parking area. Please use public transportation or public parking area surrounding the hall

Address of SHINAGAWA INTERCITY
2-15-4, Konan, Minato-ku Tokyo 108-6105
TEL : +81-3-3474-0461  http://www.sicity.co.jp/
To view guidance to the venue and annotations on each and every location of interest within the venue:
Go to "Participate" > "View discussions" or "View annotations". When you click the list, you will be able to view annotations on each location of your interest.

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The 4th Virtual Design World Cup
The 4th Student BIM&VR Design Contest on Cloud Services
-Competition for designing an advanced construction
engineering-works on Cloud, making full use of BIM/CIM and VR!-


Theme 2014
"Sustainable Olympic Town in Tokyo Bay 2020"

This is an international design competition for students to compete amongst each other in designing an innovative architecture, bridge and city design using BIM/CIM &VR technologies.
Every year students compete for the top prize which is given to an outstanding work outlining a predefined theme in the aspect of design, innovative idea, and creativity. They plan and design their work based on the theme and then run a simulation. Their final model will be presented to the judges in a form of a script for evaluation.
To assist students with the production of their work, we plan to carry out workshops and seminars. We will also support the students who will make use of software from now on. Also you can communicate and collect a lot of information without having to visit the local area by participating various workshop reviews through the Web and VR forum ( 3D cloud BBS ). The script of VR data created by FORUM8's software and a "Concept poster" (A1 size (lateral) in PDF format) are required for the final submission and the judgment is performed on the basis of "VR Cloud judgment". We would like you to use FORUM8's BIM software and VR technologies by all means and consider this competition as an opportunity to create your masterpiece. We encourage students from different departments majoring in different field of studies to make a team to work on their model together to demonstrate that BIM/CIM can be used in various discipline.




Click here to see the resutls!
< Overview >
Organizers Virtual Design World Cup Executive Committee
Collaborator Shinkiba Redevelopment Consortium
Judging
Committee
Prof. Yasushi Ikeda (Graduate School of Keio University / Chief of executive committee of VDWC / Representative of IKDS)
Mr. Yoshihisa Hanamura(NPO Civil Machizukudi Station)
Associate Prof. Kostas Terzidis (Harvard University, USA)
Mr. DAVID TSENG (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)
Qualification for applicant All members who were involved in design should be students. Team can comprise of either students or working students. Graduation research and work by any member of a team who graduated before year 2013 graduation are also qualified.
There must be at least 3 members in your team to apply. Please make sure you know the part of your work contributed by each member of your team.
Guideline for applicants Theme2014
"Sustainable Olympic Town in Tokyo Bay 2020"


Tokyo is striding ahead towards 2020 Olympic games the city will host to provide easy mobility and comfortable stay for visitors from around the world and to live up to the expectation for its regeneration into an advanced environmentally friendly city weighed at the metropolis ever since it won the bid. In particular, its harbor region, an industrial land that is recently transforming into a city equipped with complex urban features, will become the main venue of the Olympic and the biggest frontier of the development radiating out from the heart of Tokyo at the same time. The theme for this year's VDWC will focus on part of this area, the Shikiba/Tatsumi region within which new athletic stadiums are centralized to be specific. However, rather than just designing the new Olympic games' stadiums themselves, we also expect you to consider the urban design of this entire region. The reason being the demand for new ideas on how traffic, accommodation, and food and beverage facilities that will serve the needs of the fans during the Olympic can be used effectively even after the games, which is imperative considering the region's long-term development. (The temporary image of the Olympic stadiums that is imported into the UC-win/Road data and will be provided to you is based on the actual image of the stadiums presented by the city of Tokyo, however you are free to alter it)
We hope that you submit the kind of proposal that not only avoids unnecessary investment and excessive burden but also promises development of the harbor region into a sustainable urban waterfront which offers an attractive and valuable environment in both scenic and ecological sense. Speaking of this year's theme, as long as your work is in line with the theme itself and concerns the specified region, it does not matter whether your work covers part or whole of that region. One of the characteristics of the annual VDWC's theme is in its size, complexity, and comprehensiveness. This is because we expect each student to take advantage of the benefit gained from teamwork, one of the features of BIM, to produce an excellent result of the collaborative work done by themselves and their teammates from various fields of study.
Judging standard The use UC-win/Road is mandatory for the creation of the work. In addition, contestants must use at least one more FORUM8 software/solution to create their work of art, which must have the element of the BIM/CIM and VR and the capability of being used in these disciplines. The works will be evaluated how the new design was created in terms of the availability of BIM/CIM and also VR, duration of creating work and its quality, logicality and technical capabilities, sensuousnessand originality and presentation skills will be evaluated.

*1  Copyright
  • All contents of the awarded VR data is the copyright of each applicants.
  • The submitted VR data will not be distributed, but FORUM8 has a right to use the data and works, edit and reproduce the images and videos etc. and post or introduce it on website, magazines, books, newspaper etc. as a sales activity or an advertisement as a secoundary user of VR data.
Deliverables
  • The VR data created by using the software/solution licensed free of charge to the contestants,
  • PDF file of A1 sized poster (oriented horizontally).
Application term
/ Schedule
Registration Period : April 10 (Thu) - June 30 (Mon), 2014
Rental duration
for free licenses
: April 10 (Thu) - November 28 (Fri), 2014
1st round presentation
/review (*2)
: July 8 (Tue), 2014
Project Submission Period : October 1 (Wed) - October 10 (Fri), 2014
Judging Period (*3) : October 14 (Tue) - October 23 (Thu), 2014
Award Ceremony : November 21 (Fri), 2014 Venue : Shinagawa Intercity Hall
*2 The overview of the submitted work will be presented and reviewed at the International VR Symposium The 5th Summer Workshop in Hawaii.
Seminar schedule
of available products
Applicants can rent the available software licenses and can participate in the training seminars (including paid seminar) of the available products held by FORUM8 with prior registration.
*The license of the products will be separately sent after applying by the automatic reply sent after registring.

Available software and seminars
Prix The World Cup Prize Award is worth 300,000 yen!

  World cup prize : 1
Award 300,000 yen, world cup, award certificate

  Excellent prize : 2
Award 100,000 yen, excellent prize cup, award certificate

  Judge's special prize : 5
Award 50,000 yen, judge's special prize, award certificate

  Nominee's prize : 15
Award certificate, a panel of their work, memorials, FORUM8 original gift

  Participation Prize:
Award certificate for all applicants whose works satisfy the rules.
How to entry   Entry flow

  1. Go to our exclusive website to register online during the registration period (April 1 (Thu) - June 30 (Mon), 2014).
  2. After your entry has been accepted, we will send you the following information:
        - Registration ID
        - Download link for VR site model and materials we provide for you to work on.
        - How to apply for the software you want to rent and workshop you want to join.
  3. Please fill in the application form for "Software you wish to rent" and "Seminar you wish to participate" as required, to apply.
  4. Please submit your final entry via our online submission form coming to you shortly, during the project submission period (October 1 (Wed) - October 10 (Fri)). We will then send you the site (the 3DVR cloud server) on which you can test your work, along with your ID and password.



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Virtual Design World Cup on cloud on cloud Programming version
The 2nd Cloud Programming World Cup
The 2nd Student Cloud Programming World Cup
-Put your 3D VR Cloud application programming skills to the test using FORUM8's Software Development Kit (SDK)!




Click here to see the resutls!

< Overview >
Organizers Cloud Programming World Cup Executive Committee
Judging Committee Tomohiro Fukuda (Head of judges and associate professor from the Graduate School of Engineering Osaka University)
Hiroyuki Hakura (Delegate of "The Forum for Advancement of Stereoscopic Three Dimensional Image Technology and Arts"; and designated professor of Digital Hollywood University, Graduate School )
Associate Prof. Narahara Taro (Associate professor from the College of Architectural Design, New Jersey Institute of Technology)
Yoann Pencreach (Chief Manager of VR development group, FORUM8)
Qualification for applicant All members who were involved in design should be students. Team can comprise of either students or working students. Graduation research and work by any member of a team who graduated before year 2013 are also qualified.
Guideline for applicants The objective of the competition is to develop software that can run on VR-Cloud® using UC-win/Road SDK (Software Development Kit) and VR-Cloud® SDK. This software could be: all-purpose software, application programs, engineering software, business software or game software.
-UC-win/Road    -UC-win/Road SDK    -VR-Cloud®    -VR-Cloud® SDK
-Unique transmission technology a3s (Anything as a Service) SDK

Examples of application that can be developed using the SDK
 Judging Standard The objective of the competition is to develop software that can run on VR-Cloud® using UC-win/Road SDK (Software Development Kit) and VR-Cloud® SDK. This software could be: all-purpose software, application programs, engineering software, business software or game software. Competing students are asked to submit a set of source codes of the software they used and a Power Point slide that gives an explanation on the source codes. The work will be evaluated on how well SDK was used in the creation of the cloud software from the aspect of programming quality, rationality, technicality, aesthetics, originality, and how well it is presented.

*1 Copyright
  • All contents of the awarded VR data is the copyright of each applicants.
  • The submitted VR data will not be distributed, but FORUM8 has a right to use the data and works, edit and reproduce the images and videos etc. and post or introduce it on website, magazines, books, newspaper etc. as a sales activity or an advertisement as a secoundary user of VR data.
Deliverable
  • Application program
  • Source code and script (text format)
  • Simplified user manual for the program (Word format)
  • Concept of the program, future task and idea etc. (PowerPoint format)
*Not only the program but also including the contents would be fine.
Schedule
Registration Period  : April 10 (Thu) - June 30 (Mon), 2014
After entering the competition, each team has until June 30th, 2013
to submit their work plan.
Rental duration for free licenses : April 10 (Thu) - November 28 (Fri), 2014
1st round presentation/review (*2) : July 8 (Tue), 2014
Project Submission Period : October 1 (Wed) - October 10 (Fri), 2014
Judging Period : October 14 (Tue) - October 23 (Thu), 2014
Award Ceremony : November 21 (Fri), 2014 Venue : Shinagawa Intercity Hall
*2 The overview of the submitted work will be presented and reviewed at the International VR Symposium The 5th Summer Workshop in Hawaii.
Seminar schedule of
available products
<Intended Products>
-UC-win/Road    -UC-win/Road SDK    -VR-Cloud®    -VR-Cloud® SDK
-Unique transmission technology a3s (Anything as a Service) SDK

Applicants can rent the available software licenses and can participate in the training seminars (including paid seminar) of the available products held by FORUM8 with prior registration.
*The license of the products will be separately sent after applying by the automatic reply sent after registring.
Available software and seminars
Prix The Cloud Programming Cup Prize Award is worth 300,000 yen!

  Cloud Programming Cup Prize : 1
Award 300,000 yen, world cup, award certificate

  Judge's special prize : 3-4
Award 50,000 yen, judge's special prize, award certificate

  Nominee's prize
Award certificate, a panel of their work, memorials, FORUM8 original gift

  Participation Prize (for all applicants whose works satisfy the rules)
Award certificate
How to entry    Entry flow

  1. Go to our exclusive website to register online during the registration period (April 1 (Thu) - June 30 (Mon), 2014).
  2. After your entry has been accepted, we will send you the following information:
        - Registration ID
        - Download link for VR site model and materials we provide for you to work on.
        - How to apply for the software you want to rent and workshop you want to join.
  3. Please fill in the application form for "Software you wish to rent" and "Seminar you wish to participate" as required, to apply.
  4. Please submit your final entry via our online submission form coming to you shortly, during the project submission period (October 1 (Wed) - October 10 (Fri)). We will then send you the site (the 3DVR cloud server) on which you can test your work, along with your ID and password.
 
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