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News about the Media Interaction Lab
There’s something in the air
From Feb. 5-7, 2008, the Media Interaction Lab will present a brand-new interactive table and whiteboard at the Austrian exhibition ITnT, Vienna. You will find our device at the Microsoft booth in the corner “Innovation Microsoft”. This table has been developed together with the furniture company Team 7. The project is also supported by voestalpine [...]
Cooperation with Nortel
Nortel is working with the Media Interaction Lab to study remote conferencing solutions of the future based on multi-touch and pen-based interactive collaboration techniques.
Raimund Dachselt
On December 17, 2007 Raimund Dachselt gave a presentation about “Three Dimensional Interaction Techniques and Zoomable User Interfaces for Mixed Reality Applications”. Currently, Raimund is an associate professor at the University of Magdeburg. During his visit at the Media Interaction Lab, we decided to work together on new collaborative tabletop applications. More details about his [...]
New Toshiba Projector ex20 tested
This week we got our hands on the brand new Toshiba ex20 short-throw projector to test it in a rear projection setup. Some facts about the projector: XGA, 130% lens offset, ~0.68 throw-ratio (distance-to-image-width), 2300 Ansi lumen, DLP. The test results were quite good. Because of the high lens offset it’s easy to use in [...]
Mixed Reality Entertainment & Art
The ISMAR workshop “Mixed Reality Entertainment & Art” has started. Jakob presented the collaborative tabletop game “Comino” which was attended by over 40 participants. Steven Zhou ZhiYing presented the first commercial available Augmented Reality product wIzQubesTM (besides Sony’s eyeToy), which you can get for 60 USD in Singapore. Actually, this games is designed for kids [...]
Nortel visits Media Interaction Lab
Nortel visited our lab. We are planning to work together on an exciting new project. More infomation will be announced soon.
Media Interaction Lab goes online
After some time working on our website, it finally is time to release it into the world wide web.
