Building on our main fields of expertise – Virtual Reality and Virtual Computing – VRVis has until now mainly dealt with the visual sense: as an output stream of data to the user in the form of interactive graphics and virtual and mixed environments, and as an input modality in the form of image and video processing. Many of the methods and technologies involved in successfully implementing a virtual environment, e.g. user tracking, real-time collision detection for interaction and registration techniques are applicable to other sensory channels such as haptics, sound and even olfactory stimuli.
Collaboration with experts on virtual acoustics enables the Multiple Senses group to integrate for precise spatial 3D audio using person specific HRTFs (head related transfer functions). The group’s research includes 2D to 3D conversion methods, scanning technology and 3D printing and computer aided machining. This allows for example to make data accessible to blind and visually impaired people, with a special focus on art in a museum context.
The Multiple Senses group closely cooperates with the Visual Analytics group, the Semantic Modelling and Acquisition group and the Geospatial Visualization group. The research field of Multiple Senses provides new and innovative interaction methods and output technologies to the Visual Analytics group, whereas the Semantic Modelling and Acquisition group is supporting the development for acquisition methods for multiple senses. Furthermore, together with the Geospatial Visualization group the Multiple Senses group are exploring new environments for planetary sciences.
Area Coordinator Multiple Senses | Head of Multiple Senses, Multiple Senses
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3D interaction methodsn
Multi-sensory interfaces
Mixed Reality & Augmented Reality
Virtual Reality
Real-time sensors and associated data processing
Innovative output devices
Assisted living applications
3D Printing and Computer Aided Machining
The expertise of our Multiple Senses research group is in high demand – read all about it in various recent press articles:
XREye synthesizes innovative VR, eye-tracking, and visual simulation technologies for simulating visual impairments in virtual and augmented reality.
ARCHES - Accessible Resources for Cultural Heritage EcoSystems was an EU-funded Horizon2020 project coordinated by VRVis.
New technologies and security policy developments bring a paradigm shift for the Austrian armed forces. The use of information and communication measures entails both challenges and opportunities: for combat, security and rescue manoeuvres.
Fire training for non-professionals is expensive, complicated and dangerous. The solution: a simulation in a virtual environment.
Barrier-free access to art and museums for blind and visually impaired people through 3D technology.
With Augmented Reality, simulation results of car engine noises become visible.
With the KAUST Scene Generator three-dimensional road networks can be generated from open-source OpenStreetMap data.
Localization of Virtual Sound Sources: Effects of Pointing Method, Visual Environment, and Training.
In order to preserve the architectural heritage, we use methods of photogrammetry, thermography, photometry as well as laser scans to carry out inventories, recognition and documentation of changes in protected buildings.