Open Real Time Games Workshop – Digital tools for professional game development

This seminar is offered at the Technical University of Munich in Informatics: Games Engineering. The course focuses on the experimental examination of digital tools for professional game development – both in modeling and game programming as well as in the integration of interaction devices and methods (e.g.: BioFeedback, Eyetracking, Gaze and Gesture etc.). In the form of a practical seminar, the project work is carried out on the basis of a practical problem.

Ideal Architecture is Utopia

It never leaves the space of image and text. Only there is it alive and present for a fleeting moment. “Ou-topos”, the non-place, becomes an open projection surface for our dreams and wishes, not to be localized, neither in time nor in space. The utopian ideal stands for a distant, unreachable country and at the same time for a distant, not yet reached future and an irretrievable past. The ideal exists somewhere in between – between text and image, between viewer and content. The utopian ideal is simultaneously never and nowhere.

Wolfgang Höhl (2020): Ideale Architektur ist eine Utopie, in: Deutsches Architektenblatt 10/2020

[uˈtɔpɔs] ou-topos | οὐ-τόπος
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Wolfgang Höhl, Farzam Kharvari and Gudrun Klinker: Wayfinding in Museums: A Cross-sectional Comparison Between 3D Serious Games and 2D Drawings as Tools for Participatory Design . Find our paper and video for IEEE CoG 2020 on: https://ieee-cog.org/2020/program

We can create a better world | Exclusive interview at worldarchitecture.org

In this exclusive interview Farzam Kharvari talks with Wolfgang Höhl about the future of xR-technology in architecture and upcoming projects of scienceviz.com® | Research Institute for 3D Computer Graphics.

New research in progress! – Watch our video on YouTube!

How can we use Virtual Worlds for Architectural Education?

This project will include a systematic research of projects using xR-Technologies for architectural education within the last five years. Application areas, technological chances and risks will be identified. The results will show which applications tend to be successful, technological feasible and applicable in the future. This research is planned to be published as a review paper in international scientific journals.

The current study is based on previous research published in IEEE proceedings from VS-Games 2019:

“The Role of Serious Gaming using Virtual Reality Applications for 3D Architectural Visualization” and “Game-Based Learning – Developing a Business Game for Interactive Architectural Visualization”.

This research was kindly supported by Epic MegaGrants

Wolfgang Höhl and Farzam Kharvari have been awarded with the Epic MegaGrant for following educational research papers:

“Game-Based Learning – Developing a Business Game for Interactive Architectural Visualization” and “The Role of Serious Gaming using Virtual Reality Applications for 3D Architectural Visualization”.

Both papers will be presented at IEEE VS-Games 2019 – 11th International Conference on Virtual Worlds and Games for Serious Applications . 4th – 6th September 2019 in Vienna / Austria.

Virtual Reality GIF by Oculus . via GIPHY

Presented by the commission “3D-Stadtmodelle” of the “Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kartographie und Geomatik e. V. – DGfK” and the “Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photogrammetrie, Fernerkundung und Geoinformation e. V. – DGPF”.