After three years of development and official completion in 2022, the project PraktikApp was reported on by the german magazine InteriorFashion.
High-ranking visit from Minister Nathanael Liminski at the start of the summer break. As the Minister responsible for Federal and European Affairs, International Affairs and Media, the Head of the State Chancellery visited the company LAVAlabs Moving Images and the MIREVI laboratory at HSD on Ackerstrasse.
News from the Vision.5G project! The first prototype of the use case "digital construction progress control" is now ready.
As a digital partner, we provide technical support and assistance to the NRW Forum Düsseldorf in their wwwforum project, which offers a virtual space for artists and visitors to think about and experience exhibition forms experimentally. We are also the technical contact for the Open Call as part of the Virtual Residency Programme.
The computer games market is booming – for many years now, the gaming industry has been seeing rapid growth. North Rhine-Westphalia, home of the world’s biggest computer games convention, several internationally operating game studios and a strong developer scene, is one of the major locations in the gaming world. The video games sector is a giant growth market with enormous potential. Collaborating with three other universities, the HSD is developing a center for research and innovation in games to lastingly expand the games location NRW.
We developed four different visions of a world with robots in the year 2045. Which stakeholders will be involved in this future world? What kind of different emotions, reactions, opinions and experiences might emerge? What are the societal consequences – positive or negative – or conflicts that might arise?
Let's be honest: Corona has a firm grip on us, on research, development, but also on our art and cultural productions. With conferences, productions and festivals moving into the virtual, we are eagerly seeking ways to enter into deeper exchange, and to find new forms of interactions that also embrace the needs of arts and culture. The questions that arise not only from social distance but also from digitalization, the challenge of transferring the body, the art scene and commemorative culture into the digital, are discussed in the following contributions, which have all been created in our virtual 3D studio.
The Deutsche Oper am Rhein and the FFT Düsseldorf were guests at the MIREVI lab of the HSD. With both cultural partners we develop new digital concepts and fundamentals of collaboration. As part of the city’s public life, our goal is to carry on joint research focusing on digital transformation and innovative switching technology. The digital foyer is designed to serve as an interface between house and visitors as well as between institution and city. A digital room that extends the theatre and the opera. A gathering place. A window to the city.
There is a substantial number of body tracking systems (BTS), which cover a wide variety of different technology, quality and price range for character animation, dancing or gaming. To the disadvantage of developers and artists, almost every BTS streams out different protocols and tracking data. Not only do they vary in terms of scale and offset, but also their skeletal data differs in rotational offsets between joints and in the overall number of bones
MireviMotionHub is a middleware for multiple body tracking systems and it unifies them in a single plug-in for the Unity game engine.
For this project, we collaborated with Simon Pierro who is known as the “iPad magician”. During his performances, he combines the possibilities of digitization with magic tricks. Together we discussed how people might be able to enjoy his magic at home in a more immersive and exciting way than merely watching a video.
Since the number of research projects we have worked on in the past and are currently working on is ever-growing, we want to develop a versatile and high-quality presentation tool based on new technologies. The Innovation Suitcase will be especially useful due to its mobility that enables us to present our projects everywhere, for instance at exhibitions. Another key feature will be the various kinds of media available to do the several projects justice.