UVRPN - a minimal wrapper for VRPN in Unity

Hartmut — Sun, 08 Jul 2018 20:26:37 +0000

UVRPN originated from the need to add a very thin layer in between an OptiTrack system and Unity to drive a PowerWall. The system is as of now (2018) rather incomplete but supports enough fidelity to be somewhat useful. You are invited to join the project and contribute.

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About

Hartmut — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 14:51:52 +0000

technotecture [tech·no·tec·ture] is the online portfolio of Hartmut Seichter, Professor for Computer Graphics at Schmalkalden University of Applied Sciences. Hartmut has two decades of experience in Augmented, MIxed and Virtual Reality and co-authored over 50 peer reviewed publications and a number of patents. To know more about his academic output check out his Google Scholar profile.

Research Interest

Mobile Augmented Reality and Interfaces
Interfaces for Augmented Reality Aided Design (ARAD)
Computer Supported Collaborative Design (CSCD)
Software technology for high performance cross platform visualization
Surface computing: tabletop or vertical, multi-touch interaction

Awards

2017, 2015, 2013 and 2011 named "Inventor" of Graz University of Technology (high amount of taken up IP)
1999 Bauhaus'99 award for Neufert Projection installation

Experience

Professor for Computer Graphics (2014 onwards) - Schmalkalden University of Applied Sciences

Appointed as professor for computer graphics at Schmalkalden University of Applied Sciences. My courses entail Computer Graphics, Virtual and Augmented Environments, Interactive Systems, Information Visualization and Programming. Further, I am responsible for the Graphics and Interaction Laboratory.

Deputy Director and Senior Researcher (2010-2014) - Graz University of Technology, Department of Computer Vision and Graphics

My main role was the project supervision of the Christian Doppler Laboratory for Handheld Augmented Reality at Graz University of Technology. I did research on novel interaction techniques for content creation, user interaction for navigation and public screen interaction and GPGPU methods on mobile devices. Further, I developed methods for interactive input on NFT tracking targets and various other AR related contributions. During my time at the CDL I was organizing a large number of workshops and meetings, bringing lots of AR researchers together. My work here led to various publications at high-ranking conferences such as CHI, MobileHCI and AVI. Further, our industry partner Qualcomm filed a number of patents where I am inventor or co-inventor.

Postdoctoral Fellow (2007-2010)

HIT Lab NZ, University of Canterbury

Main responsibilities are project supervision for CALMARS (FRST grant UOCX680) and contributions to the FRST project ‘Accessible AR’.
TIM edutainment physics game utilizing AR and rigid body simulation
Twisted Pair library - a multi-platform scene-graph for Mobile Phones and desktop machines
ComposAR interactive realtime AR authoring environment for media designers and artists
SSTT scalable cross-platform AR tracking library for desktop computing and mobile phones
Research consulting for companies including:
Fusior sensor fusion SDK for multi-touch interaction for surface computing for StoryInc PR company
PresentAR Augmented Reality multimedia delivery tool for Disney/Walden Media and uLearn Technologies

Research Associate (2005-2006)

HIT Lab NZ, University of Canterbury

Development of osgART (Augmented Reality Toolkit for OpenSceneGraph) – licensed through ARToolworks Inc (http://www.artoolworks.com) and HITLabNZ Ltd.
Development of cross-platform Augmented Reality authoring tool called ComposAR – licensing under negotiation
Development of osgSWIG (http://code.google.com/p/osgswig) Language wrapper for OpenSceneGraph
Research and Development of Augmented Reality game for home robot platform Rovio by wowwee
Supervision for the development of osgODE, osgVerse

PhD Student (2002-2005)

The University of Hong Kong

working mostly on my PhD
various design studios

Academic Degrees

PhD (4-year program), The University of Hong Kong, Title of Thesis: Augmented Reality Aided Architectural Design, Hong Kong, 2007
Diplom Ingenieur (Dipl.-Ing., ger.: engineer, 5-year program), Topic: Architectural Sketching in Virtual Environments, Bauhaus University, Weimar, 2002

Project Management

Deputy Director of the Christian Doppler Laboratory for Handheld Augmented Reality. Coordination of the project goals and research work with project partner Qualcomm Inc. (Budget > EUR 0.5M Euro/a)
Project lead for CALMARS (FRST UOCX 0608) and coordination of HIT Lab NZ work in the EU project CALLAS (FP6-2005-IST-5-34800). Budget NZD850000.
Project co-writing and researcher for the NERF/MORST project Accessible AR 2007-2012 (FRST UOCX 0704), (Budget NZD 2M).
Project coordination of the HIT Lab NZ participation in the EU project IPcity (FP-2004-IST-4-27571).
Project co-writing and coordination EURASIApac Beteiligung des HIT Lab NZ, EU Projekt (eurasiapac-fp7.eu), 2010. (Budget 300.000NZD/a)
Project collaboration MARCUS/IRSIS Neuseeland / EU Ausstauschprogramm - 2008-2011.

Stipends

University of Hong Kong Postgraduate Scholarship Grant

Conference Organization

Organization of four consecutive Winter Augmented Reality Workshop WARM'11, WARM'12, WARM'13, WARM'14
Member of International Program Committee IEEE ISMAR
Workshop Chair IEEE ISMAR (2012-2013)
Program Commitee:
- IEEE ISMAR
- CAADRIA
- CAAD futures
- ACE