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VAR group members Robert Klank and Katarzyna Olszyńska, working with Daniel Oquelis and Maria Tam, won first prize in the Meta-sponsored category “AI & Passthrough Camera Access” at the international XR Creator Con Hackathon (30 October–26 November 2025). Organised by the XR Ecosystem, the competition is considered the largest independent hackathon for extended reality worldwide. … Read more
At the IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR) in Daejeon, South Korea, Tonia Mielke, in collaboration with Mareen Allgaier, Christian Hansen, and Florian Heinrich, received a Best Paper Honorable Mention award for their work “Extended Reality Check: Evaluating XR Prototyping for Human-Robot Interaction in Contact-Intensive Tasks.” ISMAR is one of the leading … Read more
Danny Schott successfully defended his PhD thesis, titled “Of Individual and Collaborative Experiences: Training and Learning in Immersive Environments for Medical Education,” with the distinction summa cum laude on April 3, 2025. The thesis committee included Prof. Dr. Dieter Schmalstieg (University of Stuttgart, Germany), Prof. Dr. Daniel Roth (Technical University of Munich, Germany), and Prof. … Read more
For the scientific contribution entitled “Exploring Interaction Concepts for the Manipulation of a Collaborative Robot: A Comparative Study“, Josefine Schreiter, in collaboration with Tonia Mielke, Marilena Georgiades, Maciej Pech, Christian Hansen and Florian Heinrich, was awarded an Honourable Mention at the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) in Melbourne, Australia. The video accompanying the paper can be found here. … Read more
Florian Heinrich was honoured by the Faculty of Computer Science at Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg for his scientific achievements as a postdoctoral researcher. Florian has published numerous high-ranking conference papers, including IEEE VR, ACM VRST and ACM ISMAR. He has also contributed to numerous journal articles in IEEE Transactions on Visualisation and Computer Graphics and International Journal … Read more
Danny Schott received the Best Paper Award together with Matthias Kunz, Florian Heinrich, Jonas Mandel, Anne Albrecht, Rüdiger Braun-Dullaeus and Christian Hansen for “Stand Alone or Stay Together: An In-situ Experiment of Mixed-Reality Applications in Embryonic Anatomy Education” at the ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST) in Tier, Germany. The VRST is … Read more
Gino Gulamhussene successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled “A Deep Learning Framework for Predicted 4D MRI” on 7 October 2024. The thesis committee members were Prof. Dr. Dietrich Paulus (University of Koblenz, Germany), Prof. Dr. Frank Zoellner (University of Heidelberg, Germany) and Prof. Dr. Christian Hansen (University of Magdeburg, Germany). The thesis was supervised by … Read more
Florian Heinrich successfully defended his PhD thesis, titled “Projective Augmented Reality Techniques for the Navigation of Percutaneous Needle Insertion,” on December 5, 2023. The thesis committee included Prof. Dr. Frank Steinicke (University of Hamburg, Germany), Prof. Dr. Marta Kersten-Oertel (Concordia University, Montréal, Canada), and Prof. Dr. Bernhard Preim (University of Magdeburg, Germany). Florian’s research was … Read more
For the scientific contribution titled “Interactive Registration for robotic Augmented Reality: A Comparative Evaluation” Tonia Mielke in collaboration with Fabian Joeres, Danny Schott and Christian Hansen was awarded the Honorable Mention for the Best Poster at the International Symposium for Augmented and Mixed Reality (ISMAR) in Sydney, Australia. IEEE ISMAR is the leading international academic … Read more
Julian Alpers successfully defended his PhD thesis on “Improving Thermal Cancer Treatment with 2D to 3D Heat Map Reconstruction” on September 22, 2023. The reviewers of the thesis were Prof. Dr. Bruno Madore (Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA), Prof. Dr. Oliver Speck (University of Magdeburg, Germany) and Prof. Dr. Christian Hansen (University of Magdeburg, Germany). … Read more