Digital manuals that are faded in directly into the field of view of the user via a head-mounted display are one of the most often used application examples for Augmented Reality (AR) scenarios. AR manuals can significantly simplify or accelerate maintenance, reparation or installation work on complex systems.

At present, the existing viewing aids and accessibility tools are rarely mobile and are usually heavy and expensive. They consist of electronics, mechanics, optics and a minimum of software. Their images cannot be adjusted according to individual eye diseases or individual patient parameters.

The overall aim of the VISTRA project is to minimize the number of physical prototypes in the field of industrial production by more efficient and realistic simulation techniques on the basis of realistic and user-centred simulation methods, and to enable that gained knowledge will be (re-)used for efficient knowledge sharing between different stakeholders.

Monitoring of physical activities is a growing field with many diverse applications in the area of Ambient Assisted Living, ranging from medical screening, disorder diagnosis, rehabilitation, to well-being. A balanced physical activity is essential for “well aging”, and represents a fundamental indicator of good health and life quality.

Reconstruction of 3D-scenes out of camera images represents an essential technology for many applications, such as 3D-digital-cities, digital cultural heritages, games, tele-cooperation, tactical training or forensic. The objective of the project CAPTURE is to develop a novel approach for ...

The SUDPLAN project aims at developing an easy-to-use web-based planning, prediction, decision support and training tool, for the use in an urban context, based on a what-if scenario execution environment, which will help to assure population's health, comfort, safety and life quality as well as sustainability of investments in utilities and infrastructures within a changing climate.

Augmented and virtual reality are becoming more and more common in systems for user assistance, educational simulators, novel games, and the whole range of applications in between. Technology to automatically capture, recognize, and render human activities is an essential part for all these applications. The aim of COGNITO is to bring this technology a big step forward.

AVILUSplus is a research and development project funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). It is in close relationship with the German technology network AVILUS, where participants of the German core industries and applied research develop innovative technologies in the areas of virtual (VR) and augmented reality (AR) for product and resource life cycle.

Based on the reliable STREET concept, a simple but effective method to assess the traffic-related air pollution in urban areas which was initially developed by the “Association for Technical Inspection” (TÜV Süd) and validated in German cities like Düsseldorf, Tübingen or Neuss as well as by the AIRPARIF network

The TuBUs-Pro project aims at tutoring the use of the ANNA-framework to analyze conventional rectal ultrasound images of the prostate. The system provides different training modes with varying difficulty levels, ranging from “mark a suspicious region in a particular ultrasound image” to “find all primary cancers in a complete case”.