Fraunhofer IAO

Fraunhofer IAO will show its Visual Technologies lab, highlighting collaborative VR and Interactive Surfaces such as the 2D/3D projection table and the large-scale FusionWall tiled display. Other highlights are IAO’s Immersive Engineering Lab, a VR projection environment inte- grating a 5,5 m wide Powerwall with a 4-sided CAVE, as well as the Driving Research Lab featuring a full size immersive driving simulator. Furthermore, the High Performance Computing Center of Stuttgart Uni- versity will open its visualization Lab, highlighting leading-edge VR and visualization research in its 5-sided CAVE and tiled display wall.

Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics

At the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics participants can visit the Cyberneum: a state-of-the-art Virtual Reality (VR) research facility, which is part of Heinrich Bülthoffs department for Human Per- ception Cognition and Action. It is equipped with several sophisticated VR systems that are providing unique opportunities to study human per- ception and human-machine interaction. This also includes two novel, in-house designed simulators – the CyberMotion Simulator and the Cable Robot Simulator. At the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Sys- tems, Michael Black, Director of the Department for Perceiving Systems will open the doors to his Capture hall. It houses a 4D full-body scanner – the only one of its kind in the world. It can fully record the body and its movements in space and time in high-definition. With this scanner a precise 3D avatar, the virtual equivalent of a person, can be reproduced.