Augmented Reality application about Roman Forum and Satricum

For 75 years, since it was founded in 1934, the Allard Pierson Museum has been Amsterdam’s foremost venue for discovering archaeology and the ancient...more

20 Years of the Fall of the Berlin Wall

At CeBIT 2009 Fraunhofer IGD presented Augmented Reality technology for assistant living using the example of Berlin. 

Center of the project was a table with a satellite image of Berlin on which a 3D model of the...more

Multimodal Interfaces for Capturing and Transfer of Skill

The EU project SKILLS deals with the acquisition, interpretation, storing and transfer of human skill by means of multimodal interfaces, Robotics, Virtual Environments (VE)...more

Visitors to Darmstadt’s Mathildenhöhe will be able to delve into history with the aid of the iPhone application dARsein and Augmented Reality.

dARsein illustrates architecural history at the Olbrich House - the former residence of famous architect Josef Maria Olbrich. The Austrian...more

The interactive application demonstrates a virtual walk through the Fair of Frankfurt’s new hall 11. It illustrates how to control the virtual camera in 3D space using multitouch technology. The main approach is to navigate on a building’s real blueprints or 2D schematics. Today, a lot of...more

From early May until November this year, the Heinrich Nixdorf Forum presents the Computer.Sport exhibition for modern and trend-setting technologies for sports research and analysis in Kerkrade, Netherlands.

The Fraunhofer IGD presents an installation for Markerless Motion Capturing....more

Novel Interaction and Tracking Paradigms for Mobile AR

iTACITUS is a sixth framework programme project and aims to privide a mobile cultural heritage information system for the individual. By combining itinerary planning, navigation and rich...more

Life BC – Fusion of Building Information Models and Virtual/Augmented Reality Systems

The rapid proliferation of 3D models and imaging systems in the construction and facility management industry offer a future where 3D “as-built” information should be available anytime...more

Motion Bank is a four-year research project providing a broad context for research into choreographic practice. The main focus is on the creation of online digital scores in collaboration with guest choreographers to be made publicly available via the Motion Bank website. Both, these unique...more

Motivition60+ is a BmBF supported project about "Age-based Assistance system for healthy and self-suffciant living" and runs for three years. Goal is to to improve the physical and mental fitness of the Golden Agers, in order to assist having a longer, healthy and self-contained life.

Augmented Reality (AR) can provide virtual instructions, information and objects that are collocated with the real world environment and thus both real and virtual objects can be represented in one spatially integrated scene, improving the information encoding and recall processes. Thus, has an...more

Project overview

Digital cooperation is motivated by development cycles which are demanded to be more and more short-time and by the high quality requirement. For this reason, communication processes between developers should be more efficient, especially in...more

Artistic-Notation-based Software Engineering for Film, Animation and Computer Games

ANSWER is a new approach to the creative process of film and game production. Musicians and choreographers have long been able to express their intentions...more

Long-time technologies for Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality are developed in the AVILUS+ project funded by the BMBF. These technologies are evaluated with industrial partners. Our research topics in the AvilusPlus project are new tracking approaches, methods for registering skills and color...more

Augmented Reality brings the spanische BBVA Bank right into users hands.

Spanish BBVA Bank and Fraunhofer IGD study Augmented Reality (AR) with regard to novel communication strategies within this research project. Focus relies on Augmented...more

Multi-Touch-Table for Virtual Factory

During an intergroup development, the Fraunhofer-IGD created a Multitouch-Table for interaction in and with virtual environments.

High-resolution realtime-datavisualisation of...more

Overview

The AR Telescope start with its first version, the xc-01, which was a new kind of telescope where the real sight is superposed by virtual objects. Easy to use like a common telescope it allowed the projection of contextual information on the viewer’s field of vision. The...more

A Mixed Reality Chainsaw Simulation

Dolmar is one of the worldwide leading chainsaw manufacturers. For the market launch of their new chainsaw model PS-5000 Dolmar asked Fraunhofer IGD to develop a simulation of a typical working scenario with chainsaws via...more