SurgAgentXR just won 2nd place in the AI × XR for Healthcare track at the XR Creator Con Hackathon 2026 finals in Berlin! Together with Ajay Alageshan from the Visualisation Group at the University of Magdeburg and Ana Sodia Santos (external), Katarzyna Olszyńska and Prakash Pandi took part in the XRCC Hackathon in Berlin. Everything … Read more
Katarzyna Olszyńska and Robin Urrutia Escobar have bin to the 6th Summer School on AI, Robotics and XR Medical Augmented Reality Summer School (MARSS) for Clinical Applications in Shenzhen & Hong Kong. This was a great opportunity to dive deeper into the topics they work on daily – robotics, AI, and XR in the medical … Read more
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