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From October 8 to 10, 2026, the 25th Annual Conference of the German Society for Computer- and Robot-Assisted Surgery (CURAC 2026) took place in Munich, Germany. CURAC is one of Germany’s leading...

The VAR Group organized two workshops, contributed to the workshop programs and presented posters at ISMAR 2026 in Bari.

The VAR Group was represented at MICCAI 2026 by Robin Urrutia and Dr. Alfredo Illanes, who presented two papers on vibroacoustic (VA) sensing as a new source of information during minimally invasive...

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...

Katarzyna Olszyńska and Robin Urrutia Escobar have been to the 6th Medical Augmented Reality Summer School (MARSS) on AI, Robotics and XR for Clinical Applications in Shenzhen & Hong Kong. This was...

Wei Wei successfully defended his PhD thesis, titled “Towards a Liver Tumor Ablation Intervention System: Deep Learning-based Automatic Ultrasound-CT/MRI Registration” on June 5, 2026. The thesis committee included Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jana Dittmann...

IEEE VR 2026 took place in Daegu, South Korea, from 21 to 25 March 2026. As the world’s leading research conference on virtual, augmented and mixed reality, it brought together top international...

On Monday, 15 December, Tonia Mielke successfully defended her doctoral thesis entitled ‘From Registration to Evaluation: Towards Efficient Human–Robot Interaction’. The work was carried out at the Research Campus STIMULATE and examines...

On 11 December 2025, Oleksii Bashkanov from the Human–Machine Interaction research group at the Research Campus STIMULATE at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg successfully completed his doctoral colloquium. In his dissertation entitled...

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...

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...

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....