Mixed Reality Labs
Independent / Institute / Govt
- Interactive Institute, Sweden
- http://w3.tii.se/ [see Research, Studios; and Partners]
- studios with MR facilities are:
- Zero-game, Visby [MOCAP]
- Tools for Creativity, Umea [use the lab 'Wonderland'?? at Umea Uni - http://www.hpc2n.umu.se/resources/wonderland/ also http://www.vrlab.umu.se/presentation/wonderland.shtml]
- Play, Göteborg [PPP!]
- Smart, Stockholm [P]
- [project:syntropy], Germany
- work closely with Fraunhofer IFF [Institute for Factory Operation & Automation] - see University
- HPC2N - High-Performance Computing Center North, Umea, Sweden
- is a national center for Scientific and Parallel Computing
- collaboration and coordination between universities and research institutes
- http://www.hpc2n.umu.se/HPC2N/organization.html [scroll to Computing Resources]
- 'Wonderland', the lab http://www.hpc2n.umu.se/resources/wonderland/
- Wearable Computing Lab, ETH [Swiss Federal Institute of Technology]
- Future Applications Lab, Göteborg, Sweden
- 'Laboratory for Mixed Realities' (LMR) established as an institute at the academy of media arts in Cologne (KHM).
University
- The Mixed Reality Laboratory (MRL)
- is an interdisciplinary research initiative at the University of Nottingham, UK
- Global Information Systems Group, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
- Augmented paper and cross-media information management
- Centre for User Oriented IT Design,Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm, Sweden
- research areas of User Oriented Design, Connected Communities, Interaction Forms and Interactive learning environments.
- Mixed Reality Lab, National University of Singapore
- The HIT Lab (Human Interface Technology Laboratory)
- http://www.hitlabnz.org [New Zealand]
- Hideo Saito Lab [Keio University] Japan
- Matsuyama Laboratory [Kyoto University] Japan
- Minoh Lab [Kyoto University] Japan
- Cooperative Distributed Vision
- MPI Informatik, Germany
- http://www.mpi-sb.mpg.de/%7Eming/Project.html [Visual Hull]
- TNT [Institut fur Theorestische Nachrichtentechnik und Informationsverarbeitung] Hannover, Germany
- Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA
- The Robotics Institute [lots & lots of cool labs!] - http://www.ri.cmu.edu/lab_lists/index.html
- Entertainment Technology Centre - http://www.etc.cmu.edu/projects.html
- MIT Media Lab, USA
- http://www.media.mit.edu/about/facilities.html [lab overview]
- http://www.media.mit.edu/sponsors/index.html [sponsors]
- EVE [Effective Virtual Environments], The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
- GRASP Laboratory [University of Pennsylvania], USA
- General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP)
- Umea University, Umea, Sweden
- note all these use the lab 'Wonderland' - http://www.vrlab.umu.se/presentation/wonderland.shtml
- VRLab - http://www.vrlab.umu.se/
- Umeå Center for Interaction Technology - http://www.ucit.umu.se/
- HUMlab - http://www.humlab.umu.se/ [scroll bottom for VR system]
- Skill Aquisition Lab
- HPC2N - High-Performance Computing Center North, Umea, Sweden
- is a national center for Scientific and Parallel Computing
- collaboration and coordination between universities and research institutes
- http://www.hpc2n.umu.se/HPC2N/organization.html [scroll to Computing Resources]
- 'Wonderland', the lab http://www.hpc2n.umu.se/resources/wonderland/
- Georgia Tech University, Atlanta, USA
- GVU [Graphics, Visualization, and Usability Center] [see big list of labs eg: Virtual Worlds, Sonification, BORG] - http://www.gvu.gatech.edu/research/research.html
- descrip of labs - http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/lab/
- Interactive Media Technology Centre several labs here] - http://www.imtc.gatech.edu/facilities/studio.html
- AWARE [Aware Home Research Inititative] - http://www.cc.gatech.edu/fce/ahri/projects/index.html
- involves Georgia Tech Broadband Institute Residential Laboratory, a three-story, 5040-square-foot home that functions as a living laboratory for interdisciplinary design, development and evaluation.
- ODALab [School of OPTICS/CREOL], Florida, USA
- Wearable Computer Lab [University of South Australia], Australia
- research into wearbales and augmented reality
- home of the Tinmith Project and AR Quake
- Interactive Multimedia Group [University of Lisbon], Portugal
- Media Processing, Interaction and Visualization (CITI and DI/FCT/UNL)
- Human Interface Laboratory [University of Aizu], Japan
- BITLab,CARISMA [Brunel University], Uxbridge, UK
- CARISMA : The Centre for the Analysis of Risk and Optimisation Modelling Application is an interdisciplinary research centre which is supported by the strategic research initiative of Brunel University.
- Universität Koblenz-Landau [Institut für Computervisualistik]
- Currently, a “Mixed-Reality-Lab” is constructed under his direction at the University of Koblenz-Landau, Campus Koblenz.
- Media Convergence Lab [University of Central Florida], USA
- see facilities
- see partners
- Expertise Centre for Digital Media (EDM) [Limburg University Centre (LUC)], Belgium
Industry
- Fraunhofer
- FIT [Institut Angewandte Informationtechnik] http://www.fit.fraunhofer.de/profil/index_en.html
- Fraunhofer IMK [Institut Medienkommunikation] http://www.imk.fraunhofer.de/sixcms/detail.php?template=&id=1007
- Fraunhofer IFF [Institute for Factory Operation & Automation] http://www.iff.fraunhofer.de/eng/index_engl.html
- Charmed Technology,
- wearble, wireless
- Linux ref: http://www.charmed.com/support3.htm * PARC [Palo Alto Research Centre] Xerox, California, USA
- especially Systems and Practices Laboratory
- Rockwell Scientific, California, USA
- see Human Computer Interaction
- see Licensing - http://www.rockwellscientific.com/html/licensing.html
- BBN Technologies, USA
- http://www.bbn.com/mst/index.html [Modeling, Simulation & Training]
- see Conning Officer Virtual Environment, Weapons Analysis Facility
Research Initiatives [clusters/consortiums/partners]
- The Disappearing Computer [a “proactive initiative” within the FET/IST programme]
- this contains:
- 2WEAR
- ACCORD
- ATELIER
- AMBIENT AGORAS
- E-GADGETS
- FEEL
- FICOM
- GLOSS
- GROCER
- INTERLIVING
- MIME
- ORESTEIA
- PAPER++, http://www.paperplusplus.net
- SMART-ITS
- SHAPE
- SOB
- WORKSPACE
- MRL - Uni of Nottingham master list of projects
- http://www.mrl.nott.ac.uk/ then 'Projects' in the menu, then 'Currently Funded Projects' link
- .SHAPE - Situating Hybrid Assemblies In Public Environments
- “understanding, developing and evaluating room-sized assemblies of hybrid, mixed reality artefacts in public places.”
- A consortium of:
- The Mixed Reality Laboratory (MRL), University of Nottingham, UK
- Centre for User Oriented IT Design,Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm, Sweden
- Work Interaction and Technology Research Group, King’s College London, UK
- Interaction Design Centre, University of Limerick, Ireland
- MIME
- EQUATOR
- AMIRE
- Visual Hull [3D scanning / automatic generation of 3D models]
- blue-c [Switzerland]
- ARISE
- http://www.cs.unc.edu/%7Eeve/idrive/index.html [sponsors at bottom]
- LaCoMoCo [Laboratory for Context-dependent Mobile Communication]
- mGain [Mobile Entertainment Industry and Culture]
- MUMIN [A Nordic Network for MUltiModal? INterfaces]
- Possible topics: interest in equipment-based, hands-on exercises and experiments, such as eye-tracking, touch-screen, magnetogram scanning, datagloves (CST) ….
- AWARE [Aware Home Resrach Inititative]
- The Virtual Worlds Consortium
related nodes; Mixed Reality, Augmented Reality