Speaker: Oliver Bimber (Bauhaus University, Weimar)
The Virtual Showcase is a new projection-based Augmented Reality display that offers an imaginative and innovative way of accessing, presenting, and interacting with scientific and cultural content. Almost three years after the development of the first proof-of-concept prototype, the Virtual Showcase is turning into an efficient multi-user display that effectively addresses several shortcomings of today's Augmented Reality displays. I will give an overview of the different Virtual Showcase prototypes built so far, their technical components, and their recent application to the field of digital story-telling for education and scientific visualization.
References
http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/news/02/tip021022.htm http://www.wissenschaft-online.de/artikel/605814&template=d_bnt_n_inhalt&_stempel_datum_bis=1034719199 http://cgw.pennnet.com/Articles/Article_Display.cfm?Section=Articles&Subsection=Display&ARTICLE_ID=125448 http://www.vrnews.com/invited/fa20011207.html
Curriculum Vitae
Oliver Bimber is currently a scientist at the Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany. He received a Ph.D. in Engineering at the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany under supervision of Prof. Dr. Encarnação (TU Darmstadt) and Prof. Dr. Fuchs (UNC at Chapel Hill). From 2001 to 2002 Bimber worked as a senior researcher at the Fraunhofer Center for Research in Computer Graphics in Providence, RI/USA, and from 1998 to 2001 he was a scientist at the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics in Rostock, Germany. He initiated the Virtual Showcase project in Europe and the Augmented Paleontology project in the U.S.A. He received the degree of Dipl. Inform. (FH) in Scientific Computing from the University of Applied Science Giessen and a B.Sc. degree in Commercial Computing from the Dundalk Institute of Technology. In his career, Bimber received several scientific achievement awards and is author of more than thirty technical papers and journal articles. He was guest editor of the Computer & Graphics special issue on "Mixed Realities - Beyond Conventions", and has served as session chair and review committee member for several international conferences. Bimber also gave a number of guest lectures at recognized institutions. Among them were Brown University, Princeton University, the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, the DaimlerChrysler Virtual Reality Competence Center, and the Mitsubishi Electronic Research Lab (MERL). His research interests include display technologies, rendering and human-computer interaction for Mixed Realities. Bimber is member of IEEE, ACM and ACM Siggraph.