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Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik

Extended Reality (XR), including Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR), technologies are on the cusp of becoming mainstream. In 2019, about 6 million VR and AR headsets were shipped worldwide, with an estimated 16.5 million headsets in use in 2021, and predictions of over 50 million by 2026. By some estimates, this represents a $1 trillion market. Ideally, these technologies would be accessible to all who desire to use them; however, today, XR technologies are not accessible to millions of people with disabilities or impairments (visual, motor, cognitive), with incompatible physical characteristics (e.g., hairstyles and head shapes), with health conditions, and beyond. This includes children and the growing group of elderly people. In particular, the low accessibility of these technologies today hinders their widespread adoption worldwide, especially in the educational systems (learning, training), in industry (training, assistance), and in health care (rehabilitation, therapy, telemedicine). Thus, this Dagstuhl Seminar will address an urgent need in the field to ensure that all individuals can benefit from the applications that XR offers.

Kompetenzzentrum für virtuelle Realität und Kooperatives Engineering w.V.

Die relevanten nationalen Spiegelgremien für SC 36 und SC 29 bestehen bereits bei DIN. Das möglicherweise wichtigste Gremium für internationale Normung zu den IT-Grundlagen von Metaverse und XR, das SC 24, wird derzeit nicht national gespiegelt. Zudem beschäftigen sich die nationalen Spiegelgremien des SC 36 und SC 29 nicht primär mit metaverse- oder XR-relevanten Themen. Um dem bestehenden und entstehenden Bedarfen gerecht zu werden, wird das Gremium „Metaverse und Extended Reality“ dem Normenausschuss Informationstechnik und Anwendungen (NIA bzw. NA 043) zugeordnet und soll sich vorrangig mit der Spiegelarbeit des ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 24 befassen und metaverse- und XR-relevante Themen berücksichtigen.

Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik GmbH

In our daily lives, we as humans perceive our surroundings in an inherently multimodal way. Nevertheless, the vast majority of data analysis idioms are exclusively visual, not using the apparent potential of combined designs. While the visualization field studies visual data analysis solutions, the sonification field investigates comparable solutions that convey data over non-speech audio. There are several similarities between the methods and design theories of both approaches, such as the use of perceptual variables to encode data attributes, the use of marks and substrates for conveying items, and the role of interaction in manipulating the data representations. Over the recent decades, both fields have established research communities, theoretical frameworks, and toolkit support.

Neural Networks and Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning,    Implementation and Applications of Artificial Intelligence

Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik GmbH

"The world is flat and rectangular", at least when it comes to the types of physical screens that we use for representing data and making decisions. The physical screens that we consider when creating visualizations for representing data, making decisions with this data, and learning about our environment, are predominantly flat and rectangular: our mobile phones and tablets, desktops, or even large wall or table displays. Nevertheless, technology is already evolving quickly: curved, bendable, and highly flexible displays, spherical displays, cubed displays, and even drone-based displays have emerged and are commercially available. These novel types of displays offer new ways to represent and explore data embedded in everyday environments, to communicate and share it.

Human-Computer Interaction, User Experience, Virtual Reality,    Computing Hardware

Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik GmbH

This Dagstuhl Perspectives Workshop endeavors to bridge this gap, aiming to craft a forward-looking roadmap for both academic and industrial stakeholders in gaming. The focal point is to align gaming's colossal presence with societal expectations, informed by policy frameworks. The workshop will be anchored in a cross-disciplinary approach reflecting the games research domain, to forge actionable strategies. Through working groups, participants will delve into specific topics and build strategies aimed at guiding future work in the domain across academia, industry and policy. The aim is to provide a manifesto and roadmaps rooted in reality-based practice, propelling a constructive discourse on harnessing gaming's potential for positive societal impact

Kompetenzzentrum für virtuelle Realität und Kooperatives Engineering w.V.

Die XR EXPO ist das B2B-Tech-Event in Stuttgart für Virtual Reality (VR), Mixed Reality (MR) und Augmented Reality (AR), oder kurz: eXtended Reality (XR). Die XR EXPO zeigt XR-Technologien und professionelle Anwendungen von VR, MR und AR in Industrie, Architektur, Gesundheit, Handel & Handwerk.

Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik GmbH

Computational geometry is concerned with the design, analysis, and implementation of algorithms for geometric and topological problems, which arise naturally in a wide range of areas, including computer graphics, CAD, robotics, computer vision, image processing, spatial databases, GIS, molecular biology, sensor networks, machine learning, data mining, scientific computing, theoretical computer science, and pure mathematics. Computational geometry is a vibrant and mature field of research, with several dedicated international conferences and journals and strong intellectual connections with other computing and mathematics disciplines. The emphasis of the Dagstuhl Seminar is on presenting recent developments in computational geometry, as well as identifying new challenges, opportunities, and connections to other fields of computing.