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Sule Serubugo, Denisa Skantarova, Nicolaj Evers, and Martin Kraus won a VRST 2017 Best Demo Award at the 23rd ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST 2017). The demo is also available on Steam as a VR game for HTC Vive called “Sömmad”.

Sule Serubugo, Denisa Skantarova, and Nicolaj Evers are going to present a demo of their Master’s thesis at the 23rd ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST 2017). The demo is also available on Steam as a VR game for HTC Vive called “Sömmad”.

Three student groups from Medialogy Aalborg are publishing four papers at the 6th EAI International Conference: ArtsIT, Interactivity & Game Creation (ArtsIT 2017): “Improving user experience for lost heritage sites through indirect augmented reality” by Mads Luther Nørlem, Christian L. Jakobsen, and Jon B. Larsen; “The Engagement Effect of Players’ Agency over their Characters’ Motivation”…

A group of students (Nicklas H. Christensen, Oliver G. Hjermitslev, Frederik Falk, Marco B. Madsen, Frederik H. Østergaard) is publishing their 5th semester project at the Academic Mindtrek 2017 conference under the title “Depth Cues in Augmented Reality for Training of Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery”.

Valve announced that the SteamVR tracking will be upgraded soon (https://uploadvr.com/steamvr-tracking-2/). The new tracking base stations will not work with current HMDs, controllers, nor trackers (while new HMDs, controllers, and trackers will work with both, the new and the current base stations). This means that we probably won’t buy any additional SteamVR HMDs, controllers, nor…

A paper about their VGIS7 semester project “Pixel Reprojection of 360 Degree Renderings for Small Parallax Effects” by Joakim Bruslund Haurum, Christian Nygaard Daugbjerg, Péter Rohoska, and Andrea Coifman was accepted at Salento AVR 2017. Christian Nygaard Daugbjerg will present the poster at the conference.

Three papers have been accepted at VRIC 2017: two papers by Bartal Henriksen and Ronni Nedergaard Nielsen in collaboration with Bo Geng from the Health Department about their Med8 and Med9 semester projects, and one paper by Jon Byrdal Larsen, Mads Luther Nørlem, and Christian Lebek Jakobsen about their Med7 semester project.

Hello, I’m currently reading “The VR Book: Human-Centered Design for Virtual Reality” by Jason Jerald. It doesn’t discuss algorithms nor mathematics (apparently there are no equations in this book), instead it presents relevant concepts in perception, health issues with VR, content creation for VR, 3D user interaction, and iterative design for VR experiences. The book…

Apparently, several WordPress blogs on our server (including this one) have been hacked. The problem should be fixed now and additional security measures have been installed. Sorry for any inconvenience. UPDATE 2015-08-15: Apparently, the WordPress blogs are still compromised and it will probably take a while until the issue has been fixed. UPDATE 2016-07-07: And…

Kasper Steen Fischer Topp has joined the Graphics Group as an assistant. Initially, he will focus on topics related to virtual reality. Welcome, Kasper!