Kategorie: AugmentedReality
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Retrieval Augmented Generation Makes Reading Thick Volumes Obsolete
Who does not know the struggle? Whether several hundred pages of car manuals or extensive legal texts, picking out crucial information is often time-consuming. And will you come across all the relevant entries? A glossary that does not know the search term and countless cross-references make things even more difficult. Such trouble could soon be…
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Diving Into New Worlds
From immersive exhibitions to shows and gaming, experiences that involve all five senses and offer audiences an escape into a whole different reality are all the rage right now. Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich-Hertz-Institut, HHI are currently developing DOMEconnect, a platform that makes it possible to produce high-resolution immersive content and livestream…
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Using VR glasses to train for everyday working life
Educators from the University of Magdeburg present prototypes of a virtual learning environment for people with autism spectrum disorder Magdeburg/Germany, January 24, 2025. Educators from Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg have developed prototypes of a virtual learning environment for adolescents and young adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) as part of an international research project.…
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First AR-based Fraunhofer app developed at Fraunhofer HHI
The augmented reality app DEVA (Dynamic Exposure Visualization App) from the Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz-Institut (HHI) is now available for free in the Google Play Store and Apple Store. The app enables users to visualize air pollution and other environmental data in their surroundings in real time. Using AR visualizations such as floating particles, it displays pollutants…
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Soon to be a reality in the operating theatre Standard data goggles for ‘navigation’ during neurosurgical procedures
Medical interventions should cause patients as little strain as possible; no tissue should be damaged on a precisely defined path to the site that needs to be operated on. This applies in particular to operations on sensitive organs such as the brain. For certain brain tumours, surgeons choose the gentlest approach to the brain –…
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Electricity theory in augmented reality
Scientists at Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg are working with students to develop an augmented reality app that can be used to teach pupils about physical processes, especially electronics, in a tangible way. The PUMA project won the AVRiL 2024 competition. Würzburg, October 1st, 2024 When I started my first apprenticeship in the 1990s, understanding how electricity works,…