News
We are looking for a student worker to develop Unity components and to support research.
Integrating the Augmented Reality Device Varjo XR-3 into our Social VR software solution, making it Social XR.
Florian Kern will give a talk at the EdTech Festival 2021 on November 02, 2021 at 09:30. The title of the presentation is: ViLeArn - A Social XR Platform for Learners and Teachers Built with Reality Stack
Samantha Monty will give a talk at the EdTech Festival 2021 on November 02, 2021 at 11:15. The title of the presentation is: Decker: State-of-the-Art Universal and Interactive eLearning
We published a new teaser video of the ViLeArn application showing application features and the current classroom design.
Article '3D Printing an Accessory Dock for XR Controllers and its Exemplary Use as XR Stylus'
Article 'Using Hand Tracking and Voice Commands to Physically Align Virtual Surfaces in AR for Handwriting and Sketching with Hololens 2'
Article 'Peer group supervision in Zoom and social VR- Preparing preservice teachers for planning and designing digital media integrated classes' published in Proceedings of EdMedia + Innovate Learning
Article 'Fostering Teacher Educator Technology Competencies (TETCs) in and with Virtual Reality. A Case Study.' published in Proceedings of EdMedia + Innovate Learning
Article 'Off-The-Shelf Stylus: Using XR Devices for Handwriting and Sketching on Physically Aligned Virtual Surfaces' published in Frontiers in Virtual Reality research topic 'Everyday Virtual and Augmented Reality: Methods and Applications'
Check out the new video on networking in the XR community & how to help implement new ideas.
Together with Bavarian Minister of State Judith Gerlach the XR Hub gave a masterclass called Dive into XR – use cases and outlook at Bits & Pretezls 2020.
The project ViLeArn was presented at the Digital Day Bavaria 2020. As part of the XR-Hub slot, the current prototype of project ViLeArn was streamed via Zoom.
Science Minister Bernd Sibler visits the Center for Artificial Intelligence Data Science (CAIDAS Würzburg) and tried the ViLeArn Application
The ViLeArn team welcomes Mr. Thomas Schröter as a new research assistant in the team of school pedagogy.
School pedagogy team presenting ViLeArn at the European Conference on Education Research.
Blog post on ViLeArn released on Hochschulforum Digitalisierung.
The team of school pedagogy currently focusses on didactical needs analyses. By means of literature reviews and interviews, we research aspects and methods which contribute to preservice teachers’ pedagogically sound and effective working with the ViLeArn application in their teacher education program. We also consider the teacher educators’ perspective to ensure that teacher educators are able to apply virtual reality in general and the ViLeArn application in particular successfully in their teaching.
ViLeArn pursues the vision of virtual and situated learning and teaching with the help of avatars and agents in social cyberspace. The project is jointly hosted by the Chair of School Pedagogy and the Chair of Human-Computer Interaction at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU) and supported by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.
We are happy to announce that our ViLeArn submission for the ECER conference 2019 in Hamburg, Germany (2.-6.9.), was accepted! Gabriela Ripka and Jennifer Tiede will hold a presentation on “Virtual reality in teacher education: exploring student teachers’ and teacher educators’ requirements“. The session will be on September 3rd, further details can be found in the conference programme.
We are pleased to announce that our submission to the special issue of IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics has been accepted. The submission “Not Alone Here?! Scalability and User Experience of Embodied Ambient Crowds in Distributed Social Virtual Reality” was presented at the 2019 8th Virtual Reality Conference held in Osaka, Japan, March 23-27, 2019 by Prof. Marc Erich Latoschik.
