New Speakers of the GI VR/AR special interest group

16 March 2023

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At their meeting on March 16, 2023, Frank Steinicke was elected as deputy spokesman for the Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality (VR&AR) special interest group of the Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI). Together with Prof Dr. Wolfgang Broll, TU Ilmenau, he will lead the special interest group and its activities for the next three years.

Virtual reality and augmented reality are two technology directions that have been particularly strongly influenced internationally by German R&D institutions and industrial groups. The specialist group - Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality - VR&AR of the GI offers a network for the exchange of information between the relevant groups, as well as a platform for promoting common interests.

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