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Department Virtual Worlds and Digital Games


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Contact Person

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Broll

Phone +49 3677 69 4732

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Virtual Worlds

Today, virtual world applications typically use CAVE-like multi screen projections. While those provide a high degree of immersion, the come along with a couple of disadvantages for their users:

  • Usually only the correct position and orientation of a single user are tracked. Thus all other users will observe disturbing artifacts – in particular at the edges of the canvases
  • The required space to set-up the projections is enormous – at least a very large room or even a three story building is required
  • The VR environments are not with the users, but usually located at a central location
  • Users have to wear various kinds of individual equipment (tracking sensors or markers, glasses, input devices and even Filzpantoffeln) – preventing a spontaneous usage.

The goal of our research is to overcome these barriers and allow for a seamless integration of immersive 3D environments with the individual working environment of the users.

Thus, we research the usage of autostereoscopic displays as well as position- and orientation-based but deviceless interaction.