About us
Welcome to the Chair of Virtual and Augmented Reality (VAR) at the Faculty of Computer Science of the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany. Founded in 2020, the chair is part of the STIMULATE research campus, an interdisciplinary environment dedicated to advancing technologies for image-guided therapies.
Our research focuses on fundamental and applied questions in Virtual and Augmented Reality, Human–Computer Interaction, and Image/Signal Processing. We contribute to academic teaching through a diverse set of courses within the Bachelor’s and Master’s programs in Computer Science, Computational Visualistics, Visual Computing, and Medical Systems Engineering.
We maintain active collaborations with key partners across the STIMULATE network, including the University Hospital Magdeburg, Hannover Medical School, the University Medical Center Mainz, and Fraunhofer MEVIS in Bremen.
News
VAR at Medical Augmented Reality Summer
Katarzyna Olszyńska and Robin Urrutia Escobar have bin to the 6th Summer School on AI, Robotics and XR Medical ...
Successful PhD Defence
Wei Wei successfully defended his PhD thesis, titled “Towards a Liver Tumor Ablation Intervention System: Deep Learning-based Automatic Ultrasound-CT/MRI ...
VAR at the IEEE VR Conference
IEEE VR 2026 took place in Daegu, South Korea, from 21 to 25 March 2026. As the world’s leading ...
Successful PhD Defence
On Monday, 15 December, Tonia Mielke successfully defended her doctoral thesis entitled ‘From Registration to Evaluation: Towards Efficient Human–Robot ...