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City councilor Peter Hanke visits VRVis

As one of the flagship projects of Vienna 2030, VRVis makes key contributions to the future of our city. During a site visit on February 3, 2023, our researchers showed City Councilor Peter Hanke a selection of our most exciting projects for the urban space.

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Im Rahmen des Besuchs am VRVis konnte sich Peter Hanke, Amtsführender Stadtrat für Finanzen, Wirtschaft, Arbeit, Internationales und Wiener Stadtwerke, in einer Reihe von Demos einen Überblick über die Projekte mit Nachhaltigkeitsaspekten machen.
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Around a table with our research group leaders and senior researchers, City Councilor Hanke discussed Vienna's challenges and opportunities in the RTI sector and was impressed by VRVis' efforts to develop sustainable IT solutions along the UN's 17 SDGs.
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As a flagship project of Vienna 2030, VRVis is part of the innovation and economic strategy of the City of Vienna to strengthen the location and create high-quality jobs. As a leading visual computing research center, VRVis also makes a significant contribution with sustainable solutions for industry, business, and the population. (c) PID / David Bohmann
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Climate data, especially in urban areas, is above all very large, very varied - and highly complex. Visual analytics creates an ideal basis for experts to visually bring together this data and thus help make cities fit for the climatic changes of the future. (c) PID / David Bohmann
People look at a large monitor showing a 3D representation of a city neighborhood.
The simulation software Visdom is already being used in more than 60 Austrian municipalities, several provinces, as well as in other European countries to prepare cities and regions for heavy rainfall and flooding. The "Hora3D" application makes it possible for anyone to better understand how their own property could be affected by high water and flooding using low-threshold 3D visualizations. (c) PID/David Bohmann
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VR solutions offer a cost-effective, safe, and sustainable option for strategic planning of military or rescue operations, in security training, or even in the area of visual impairment simulation for better planning of guidance systems and emergency lighting. (c) PID/David Bohmann
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Researching and understanding visual impairments and eye diseases is still a complicated area where extended reality can play an impactful role in making public spaces and infrastructures more accessible and inclusive. (c) PID/David Bohmann
Zwei Männer in Anzug an einem Tisch, einer von hinten, der andere schaut ins Bild
A man and a woman shake hands across a conference table where others are seated.
A conference room with people around the table.
The back of a man and the back of a woman's head looking at a visualization depicting various heat zones of a city in shades of red.
People look at a large monitor showing a 3D representation of a city neighborhood.
A man in a suit with VR glasses
A man in a suit with VR glasses, next to him a woman gesturing with her hands to explain something.

VRVis is one of Vienna's longest-established COMET competence centers, which has been bringing vital innovations to Austrian companies for more than 20 years with its application-oriented cutting-edge visual computing research. On February 3, 2023, City Councillor Peter Hanke visited us at our research center to learn more about the projects our researchers are currently working on that are relevant to Vienna. During his visit, which among other things also dealt with the practical implementation of the innovation strategy "Vienna 2030", in which VRVis as one of the flagship projects also makes a contribution to the future of Vienna, there were demos of our projects around visual analytics for urban climate data, blue-green infrastructure and climate change adaptation with our flood simulation software Visdom as well as virtual reality solution for the Austrian Armed Forces and the simulation of eye diseases for more accessibility in the city.

A common feature of all these projects is that, on the one hand, they result in human-centered solutions which, through visualizations optimized for human perception, make complex topics such as global warming, heavy rain and flood hazards, or the exclusion of people with visual impairments more tangible, and on the other hand, make them easier for researchers and experts to analyze and thus change. In these and many other projects, our researchers are pursuing the collective goal of developing technologically sensible, sustainable answers to the great challenges of our time and providing solutions to the major issues surrounding the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations. For a Vienna, and a world, truly worth living in.

Vienna, February 6, 2023

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VRVis projects along the SDGs (selection)