Events Detail

Speaker:
Andreas Fender

Advances in display and tracking technologies allow us to fully immerse ourselves in digital worlds or to add virtual contents to the real world, commonly known as Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR), respectively. However, those two types of reality are not the only means of overriding or enhancing our senses. Combining specific input and output technologies in different ways makes it possible to effectively create new types of perceived reality.

This guest lecture focuses on research on different types of physical-digital realities beyond AR/VR. We will first look at various types of relevant technologies acting as "ingredients" for new realities. Then, in the main part of the lecture, we will go through various types of reality, each complemented with examples from research that alter the perception of space, objects or even time.

The lecture is held by Andreas Fender. Andreas Fender's background is in Human-Computer Interaction particularly within spatial user interfaces, AR/VR systems, and toolkit research. The majority of his research deals with room-scale multi-camera networks and immersive systems. Andreas holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from Technical University Berlin (2014) and received his PhD from Aarhus University in Denmark (2018). During his PhD, he interned at Microsoft Research. After his PhD, he did a research visit at University of Sussex before working as a PostDoc at ETH Zurich. Andreas is publishing at various HCI conferences including UIST, CHI, and IEEE VR.