The paper "Prototyping of Immersive HRI Scenarios" receives "Highly Commended Paper of the Industrial Robot Innovation Award" at the recent 20th CLAWAR conference (International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots and Support Technologies for Mobile Machines)
Together with Betty Mohler and Michael Madary, Frank Steinicke was interviewed about virtual reality.
You can listen to the full interview here.
The government agency for culture and media of the city of Hamburg funds the NextReality project. The goal of the NextReality project is to strengthen the city of Hamburg as innovative site in the field of virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality and 360 videos.
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Deutschlandfunk features an interview with Prof. Dr. Frank Steinicke about restrictions in the virtual world and which contents I may show. The full interview (available in German) you can read here.
Meinungsbarometer.info features an interview with Prof. Dr. Frank Steinicke about the impact of virtual reality on our society. The full interview (available in German) can be found here.
The WDR features an interview with Prof. Slater, Prof. Metzinger and Prof. Steinicke about the possibilities of VR for science. See the full article here
Dr. Gerd Bruder successfully finished his habilitation in the HCI research group. On April 27th, he presented his thesis entitled "Perceptually-Inspired User Interfaces for Computer-Mediated Realities“ and earned the Venia Legendi in computer science from the Department of Informatics.
Dbate features a remote video interview with Prof. Dr. Steinicke about the impact of virtual and augmented reality on our society. See the full interview here
In preparation for the Social Media Week 2017, the Hamburg News feature an interview with Prof. Dr. Frank Steinicke about the virtual reality and the future of this technology for Hamburg.
Please find the entire interview here.
The Hamburgische Investitions- und Förderbank (IFB Hamburg) will fund a new research and development project of the HCI group.
In cooperation with WPS - Workplace Solutions GmbH, we will develop collaborative multi-touch environments for planning construction works in the city of Hamburg.
The...
Spiegel Online has interviewed Eike Langbehn from the HCI group about "Locomotion in VR" and published an article based on that.
The article can be found here
On November 6th Frank Steinicke will talk about „Immersive Surrogates and the Future of Virtual Reality" at the TEDxHamburg in the resonanzraum in Hamburg.
Further information about the event can be found here
The exhibit "HapGlove: Haptic Feedback in Virtual Reality" authored by Jann Freiwald, Michaela Feist, Nadine Laage and Oscar Ariza was awarded the second place out of 17 submissions at this years Informatik Expo at the department of computer science of the University of Hamburg.
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The HCI group receives two awards at the ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction (SUI), which was held co-located with the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software & Technology (UIST) in Tokyo Japan.
The paper "Touching the Sphere: Leveraging Joint-Centered Kinespheres for Spatial User...
The HCI Lab starts a cooperation and partnership program with Crytek's VR First initiative. The HCI lab will be supported with high-end hardware and software, which will be used in several educational projects. VR First is a new initiative designed to provide state-of-the-art facilities to...
Prof. Dr. Frank Steinicke will talk about Blended Reality and the future of virtual, augmented and mixed reality at the Science Notes about Augmented Humans in Berlin on September 16th, 2016 in the Astra Kulturhaus Berlin.
Further details about this event can be found here.
Prof. Dr. Frank Steinicke received the prestigious Erskine Fellowship from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. Each year, some distinguished, international academic visitors are invited to the University of Canterbury. in 2017, he will collaborate at the well-known Human Interface...
The German TV station ZDF broadcasts part of the Olympic Games from Rio in 360 degrees live streams for immersive VR experiences. The team was in our lab and shows how the technology works.
See the full report here
