VRVis at the IEEE VR 2021

Katharina Krösl and Bettina Schlager, both researchers in our Multiple Senses Group, made contributions at the IEEE VR 2021 conference.

As in previous years, researcher Katharina Krösl presented her latest project results to the VR/AR research community at IEEE VR 2021. Last year, she received the Best Research Demo Award for her presentation.

Bettina Schlager, member of our Multiple Senses research group, presented her poster "Tactical and Strategical Analysis in Virtual Geographical Environments".

Begrüßungs-Slide des IEEE VR 2021-Vortrags "Towards a Platform for Smart City-Scale Cognitive Assistance Applications"

The position paper "Towards a Platform for Smart City-Scale Cognitive Assistance Applications", presented by project leader Thomas Rausch, introduces the project "CognitiveXR", which is currently being developed cooperatively by VRVis, TU Wien, Columbia University and the spinoff CognitiveXR.

Bettina Schlager, Katharina Krösl (beide VRVis) und Lara Panfili mit einem interessierten Kollegen von der Columbia University

Networking takes place in pandemic times through creative technical avenues, as seen here in the virtual Virbela environment at IEEE VR 2021.

Virbela-Avatare der Forscherinnen Katharina Krösl (VRVis) und Lara Panfili (TU Wien) mit einer Videobooth im Hintergrund

As part of her lecturing activities at TU Wien, VRVis researcher Katharina Krösl also supervises students in their final theses. At the IEEE VR 2021, she assisted her student Lara Panfili in presenting her poster "Myoptia in Head-Worn Virtual Reality".

This year, the IEEE VR 2021 took place completely virtually for the second time. Our researchers Katharina Krösl and Bettina Schlager were present with contributions on the latest AR and VR research at VRVis.

From March 27 to April 2, this year's IEEE VR conference took place under the theme "Make Virtual Reality diverse and accessible" in a fully virtual version. The international forum gathered the latest and most relevant research results in the field of Extended Reality (XR) in form of talks, poster session, research demos, tutorials, and workshops.

VRVis, which has been conducting cutting-edge application-oriented research on virtual and augmented reality for more than 20 years now, was represented again with several contributions.

At the Workshop for Distributed Interactive Systems for Collaboration Experiences (DISCE) on March 27, researcher Thomas Rausch (head of CognitiveXR) presented the position paper Position Paper "Towards a Platform for Smart City-Scale Cognitive Assistance Applications". Therein, he shared insights into the goals of the CognitiveXR research project, in which the same-named spinoff is collaborating with VRVis researcher Katharina Krösl and researchers from TU Wien and Columbia University to develop a system for seamlessly integrating AR applications into smart city environments.

Bettina Schlager, who like Katharina Krösl is a member of our Multiple Senses research group, offered a concise overview of the research work at VRVis on collaborative virtual reality mission planning in her poster presentation "Tactical and Strategical Analysis in Virtual Geographical Environments" on March 29.

In the same poster session, Lara Panfili (TU Wien) presented her bachelor project "Myopia in Head-Worn Virtual Reality" supervised by Katharina Krösl.

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