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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Dear All,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Hope you all had safe travels home. What an amazing <a href="web3d2015.org">Web3D 2015 Conference</a> and exciting week!!!</span> <span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>We have become one of the leading forums for Web3D technology researchers, providers and users to meet, discuss and test the advancement of 3D on the Web. We would like to thank the Web3D community for their commitment and continued support of our vision for an open 3D Web. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Congratulations to our best Paper winners: Krzysztof Walczak and Jakub Flotnyski from </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif";color:black'>Poznan University of Economics. </span><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Web3D City Modeling Contest Winners: </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'> Hannes Gräuler and Frederik Hilling from Geoplex </span><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>and Student Winners: </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif";color:black'>Kanishk Chaturvedi and Yao Zhihang from Technical University Munich. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>On behalf of the Web3D Consortium I would like to sincerely thank each one of the committee members and conference participants for their contributions and efforts to make this conference, our 20<sup>th</sup> one a big success. We hope you all enjoyed our 20<sup>th</sup> anniversary celebration dinner honoring and showcasing our journey and accomplishments through these years.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>I’ll start with our General Chair<b> Dr. Athanasios Malamos</b>, your </span><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>outstanding leadership and dedication in planning the Web3D 2015 Conference made this one the best. Crete - such a beautiful city, great history, amazing food and wonderful people. Kudos to the Technological Educational Institute(TEI) of Crete team! We could not have asked for a better host to celebrate this important milestone. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Our Program Chairs: <b>Tobias Schreck, Felix</b></span><span class=apple-converted-space><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'> Hamza-lup</span></b></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'> and <b>J</b></span></span><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif";color:#333333;background:white'>inyuan Jia </span></b><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>for bringing together researchers to present and discuss their 3D work. The quality of our paper submissions is improving every year. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Our Tutorial and workshop chairs: <b>Tobias Franke and Sandy Ressler</b> for gathering key individuals for<span class=apple-converted-space> </span>demonstrations and discussion of the various scopes and approaches to 3D on the Web.</span><span lang=EN> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Our Web chair <b>Malvina Stiakaki</b>, for the site design and prompt updates to the website.</span><span lang=EN> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Our Finance Chair </span><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif";color:#333333;background:white'>Michael Kalochristianakis</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif";color:#333333;background:white'> for keeping us within budget. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Our infamous <b>Sandy Ressler</b> for engaging us throughout the conference and the Web3D Showcase. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>We can’t forget our president <b>Nicholas Polys </b>and<b> Don Brutzman</b> who keep us focused on the mission of this conference. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>A special thank you to our keynote speaker <b>Dieter Fellner</b> from Fraunhofer IGD. Finally we thank our sponsors <b>EDF </b>(Christophe Mouton), <b>NVidia </b>and<b> Khronos</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Last but not least we would like to thank all our attendees for sharing their knowledge and participating in important discussions on the future of the 3D Web. Apart from the conference program we hope you had time to network and learn from the Web3D experts at the conference. I hope I have not missed anyone but if I have, thank you again.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'> </span><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>If you have not yet submitted your presentations, please send these to <a href="mailto:web3d2015@gmail.com">web3d2015@gmail.com</a> so we can post on the conference website. </span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>We will soon start planning for the Web3D 2016 conference which is proposed to be co-located with ACM Siggraph in Anaheim, California USA, 22-24 July 2016. If any of you are interested in being a part of the planning committee and help us improve the conference please let us know. We hope to see you all again next year!</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Efharsito! and let’s keep advancing the 3D Web!!!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Best regards,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Anita Havele</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Executive Director, Web3D Consortium <span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="http://www.web3d.org/"><span style='color:windowtext'>www.web3d.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Phone: +1 248 342 7662 Fax: +1 844 768 6886</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>