VRVis at the IEEE VR 2022

This year, VRVis research was again part of the program of the leading international conference on virtual reality and 3D user interfaces.

Researcher in blue shirt with her laptop on her lap.

Researcher Marina Lima Medeiros presented her paper "VR-based Tactical Resource Planning on Spatial Data" at IEEE VR 2022, in which she discussed the benefits and potential of virtual reality solutions for tactical planning, such as military mission planning.

Screenshot from the Virbela virtual environment: conference room with avatars and presentation screens.

Researcher Katharina Krösl, who previously won the conference's Best Demo Award at IEEE VR 2020 for a demo of her PhD project, received an Honorable Mention at this year's 2022 VGTC Virtual Reality Best Dissertation Award for her dissertation, "Simulating Vision Impairment in Virtual and Augmented Reality."

Screenshot from the virtual world Virbela: a blonde researcher stands in front of a stage.

In the paper session on "Collaborations", VRVis researcher Marina Lima Medeiros presented the paper "VR-based Tactical Resource Planning on Spatial Data," which was written at VRVis.

Screenshot from Virbela: The avatars of three female researchers are waving with their hands.

At the IEEE VR conference participants had the opportunity to move around as avatars in the virtual environment Virbela. In the picture: Bettina Schlager, until recently a member of the Multiple Senses Group, and VRVis researchers Katharina Krösl and Marina Lima Medeiros.

Screenshot der virtuellen Welt Virbela: zwei Poster-Stände auf der Konferenz mit interessierten Besucherinnen und Besucher.

Forscherin Katharina Krösl war bei der diesjährigen IEEE VR-Konferenz eine der fünf Poster Chairs.

This year's IEEE VR conference was held as a virtual conference originating from Christchurch, New Zealand. A major conference focus was on using virtual environments for social interaction around the presentations.

At the annual IEEE VR conference, extended reality professionals from around the world come together to discuss the latest developments, projects, and trends in the increasingly important research field. Once again this year, VRVis was represented with several contributions.

A slide introducing Katharina Krösl in a few bullet points, four video rectangles of researchers on the right.

Katharina Krösl, researcher in our Multiple Senses Group, shared the perspective of young researchers in the field of extended reality during the panel "The Past, the Present, and Visions for the Future of IEEE VR" in the discussion around the further development of the IEEE VR conference in the future.

Screenshot of a virtual conference room with a stage and a wall full of presentation screens

On March 16, 2022, the discussion "The Past, the Present, and Visions for the Future of IEEE VR" took place. Our XR expert Katharina Krösl, who has been part of IEEE VR in many roles this year, represented the view of young researchers in the top-class panel with regard to the question of how IEEE VR - whether analog, virtual, or hybrid - should proceed in the future.

The IEEE VR 2022, hosted out of New Zealand, brought together experts in Extended Reality research from all over the world in a virtual online conference from March 12-16, 2022. Besides highlighting the latest and most relevant research in VR, AR, immersive analytics, and 3D user interfaces, a key focus this year was once again on creating an online environment that utilized virtual environments to encourage social interaction between conference attendees outside the presentations.

This year's program featured two publications authored or co-authored by VRVis researchers.

Our researcher Marina Lima Medeiros presented the paper "The Potential of VR-based Tactical Resource Planning on Spatial Data", written in the Multiple Senses Group at VRVis, in the paper session "Collaboration" on March 15, 2022. In this paper, the potential of immersive head-mounted displays (HMD) for collaborative tactical maneuver and resource planning in virtual reality, collected in the research project "milGeoCoopSandbox", is discussed.

The paper "Immersive Analytics for Ergonomics Evaluation in Virtual Reality", written at TU Graz with the participation of VRVis researcher Katharina Krösl, was part of the workshop "XR for Healthcare and Wellbeing" on March 13, 2022.

Katharina Krösl also participated in the panel "The Past, the Present, and Visions for the Future of IEEE VR" on March 16, 2022. There, she discussed the advantages and limitations of virtual conferences as well as the question of what virtual or hybrid conferences using virtual reality might look like in the future. Moreover, the researcher not only participated as one of the conference's five poster chairs but also received the 2022 VGTC Virtual Reality Best Dissertation Honorable Mention for her dissertation, "Simulating Vision Impairments in Virtual and Augmented Reality."

Vienna, March 17, 2022

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