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
Winner at XR Hackathon
VAR group members Robert Klank and Katarzyna Olszyńska, working with Daniel Oquelis and Maria Tam, won first prize in ...
Best Paper Honorable Mention on ISMAR
At the IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR) in Daejeon, South Korea, Tonia Mielke, in collaboration ...
Successful PhD Defence
Danny Schott successfully defended his PhD thesis, titled “Of Individual and Collaborative Experiences: Training and Learning in Immersive Environments ...
Honorable Mention Award at ACM/IEEE HRI
For the scientific contribution entitled “Exploring Interaction Concepts for the Manipulation of a Collaborative Robot: A Comparative Study“, Josefine ...