• Interactive Institute, Sweden
  • http://w3.tii.se/ [see Research, Studios; and Partners]
  • studios with MR facilities are:
  • Zero-game, Visby [MOCAP]
  • Tools for Creativity, Umea [use the lab 'Wonderland'?? at Umea Uni - http://www.hpc2n.umu.se/resources/wonderland/ also http://www.vrlab.umu.se/presentation/wonderland.shtml]
  • Play, Göteborg [PPP!]
  • Smart, Stockholm [P]
• [project:syntropy], Germany
  • http://www.project-syntropy.de/
  • work closely with Fraunhofer IFF [Institute for Factory Operation & Automation] - see University
• HPC2N - High-Performance Computing Center North, Umea, Sweden
  • is a national center for Scientific and Parallel Computing
  • collaboration and coordination between universities and research institutes
  • http://www.hpc2n.umu.se/HPC2N/organization.html [scroll to Computing Resources]
  • 'Wonderland', the lab http://www.hpc2n.umu.se/resources/wonderland/
• Wearable Computing Lab, ETH [Swiss Federal Institute of Technology]
  • http://www.wearable.ethz.ch/
• Future Applications Lab, Göteborg, Sweden
  • http://bond.viktoria.gu.se/fal/how.html
• 'Laboratory for Mixed Realities' (LMR) established as an institute at the academy of media arts in Cologne (KHM).
  • http://www.lmr.khm.de/

• The Mixed Reality Laboratory (MRL)
  • http://www.mrl.nott.ac.uk/
  • is an interdisciplinary research initiative at the University of Nottingham, UK
• Global Information Systems Group, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
  • http://www.globis.ethz.ch/research/
  • Augmented paper and cross-media information management
• Centre for User Oriented IT Design,Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm, Sweden
  • http://cid.nada.kth.se/en/
  • research areas of User Oriented Design, Connected Communities, Interaction Forms and Interactive learning environments.
• Mixed Reality Lab, National University of Singapore
  • http://mixedreality.nus.edu.sg
• The HIT Lab (Human Interface Technology Laboratory)
  • http://www.hitlabnz.org [New Zealand]
  • http://www.hitl.washington.edu/ [USA]
• Hideo Saito Lab [Keio University] Japan
  • http://www.ozawa.ics.keio.ac.jp/Saito/research/index.html
• Matsuyama Laboratory [Kyoto University] Japan
  • http://vision.kuee.kyoto-u.ac.jp/index-en.html
• Minoh Lab [Kyoto University] Japan
  • http://www.imel1.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp/research/group/cdv/index-e.html
  • Cooperative Distributed Vision
• MPI Informatik, Germany
  • http://www.mpi-sb.mpg.de/units/ag4/areas.html
  • http://www.mpi-sb.mpg.de/%7Eming/Project.html [Visual Hull]
• TNT [Institut fur Theorestische Nachrichtentechnik und Informationsverarbeitung] Hannover, Germany
  • http://www.tnt.uni-hannover.de/project/
• Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA
  • The Robotics Institute [lots & lots of cool labs!] - http://www.ri.cmu.edu/lab_lists/index.html
  • Entertainment Technology Centre - http://www.etc.cmu.edu/projects.html
• MIT Media Lab, USA
  • http://www.media.mit.edu/about/facilities.html [lab overview]
  • http://www.media.mit.edu/sponsors/index.html [sponsors]
• EVE [Effective Virtual Environments], The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
  • http://www.cs.unc.edu/%7Eeve/l
• GRASP Laboratory [University of Pennsylvania], USA
  • http://www.grasp.upenn.edu/index.html
  • General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP)
• Umea University, Umea, Sweden
  • note all these use the lab 'Wonderland' - http://www.vrlab.umu.se/presentation/wonderland.shtml
  • VRLab - http://www.vrlab.umu.se/
  • Umeå Center for Interaction Technology - http://www.ucit.umu.se/
  • HUMlab - http://www.humlab.umu.se/ [scroll bottom for VR system]
  • Skill Aquisition Lab
• HPC2N - High-Performance Computing Center North, Umea, Sweden
  • is a national center for Scientific and Parallel Computing
  • collaboration and coordination between universities and research institutes
  • http://www.hpc2n.umu.se/HPC2N/organization.html [scroll to Computing Resources]
  • 'Wonderland', the lab http://www.hpc2n.umu.se/resources/wonderland/
• Georgia Tech University, Atlanta, USA
  • GVU [Graphics, Visualization, and Usability Center] [see big list of labs eg: Virtual Worlds, Sonification, BORG] - http://www.gvu.gatech.edu/research/research.html
  • descrip of labs - http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/lab/
  • Interactive Media Technology Centre several labs here] - http://www.imtc.gatech.edu/facilities/studio.html
  • AWARE [Aware Home Research Inititative] - http://www.cc.gatech.edu/fce/ahri/projects/index.html
  • involves Georgia Tech Broadband Institute Residential Laboratory, a three-story, 5040-square-foot home that functions as a living laboratory for interdisciplinary design, development and evaluation.
• ODALab [School of OPTICS/CREOL], Florida, USA
  • http://odalab.creol.ucf.edu/pages/intro.php
  • Wearable Computer Lab [University of South Australia], Australia
  • http://www.tinmith.net/wearable.htm
  • http://wearables.unisa.edu.au/
  • research into wearbales and augmented reality
  • home of the Tinmith Project and AR Quake
• Interactive Multimedia Group [University of Lisbon], Portugal
  • http://img.di.fct.unl.pt/
  • Media Processing, Interaction and Visualization (CITI and DI/FCT/UNL)
• Human Interface Laboratory [University of Aizu], Japan
  • http://www.u-aizu.ac.jp/official/researchact/rese02-1_e.html#cohen
• BITLab,CARISMA [Brunel University], Uxbridge, UK
  • http://carisma.brunel.ac.uk/bitlab.asp
  • CARISMA : The Centre for the Analysis of Risk and Optimisation Modelling Application is an interdisciplinary research centre which is supported by the strategic research initiative of Brunel University.
• Universität Koblenz-Landau [Institut für Computervisualistik]
  • http://www.uni-koblenz.de/FB4/Institutes/ICV/index_html
  • http://demo6.fga.de/bem/english/k14.html
  • Currently, a “Mixed-Reality-Lab” is constructed under his direction at the University of Koblenz-Landau, Campus Koblenz.
• Media Convergence Lab [University of Central Florida], USA
  • http://www.mcl.ucf.edu/about.htm
  • see facilities
  • see partners
• Expertise Centre for Digital Media (EDM) [Limburg University Centre (LUC)], Belgium
  • http://www.luc.ac.be/english/onderzoek/instituten/teams_p_inst/expertisecentrum_digital_media.asp

Industry

• Fraunhofer
  • FIT [Institut Angewandte Informationtechnik] http://www.fit.fraunhofer.de/profil/index_en.html
  • Fraunhofer IMK [Institut Medienkommunikation] http://www.imk.fraunhofer.de/sixcms/detail.php?template=&id=1007
  • Fraunhofer IFF [Institute for Factory Operation & Automation] http://www.iff.fraunhofer.de/eng/index_engl.html
• Charmed Technology,
  • http://www.charmed.com/people1.htm
  • wearble, wireless
  • Linux ref: http://www.charmed.com/support3.htm * PARC [Palo Alto Research Centre] Xerox, California, USA
  • http://www.parc.xerox.com/research/spl/default.html
  • especially Systems and Practices Laboratory
• Rockwell Scientific, California, USA
  • http://www.rockwellscientific.com/html/information.html
  • see Human Computer Interaction
  • see Licensing - http://www.rockwellscientific.com/html/licensing.html
• BBN Technologies, USA
  • http://www.bbn.com/technologies/index.html
  • http://www.bbn.com/mst/index.html [Modeling, Simulation & Training]
  • see Conning Officer Virtual Environment, Weapons Analysis Facility

Research Initiatives [clusters/consortiums/partners]

• The Disappearing Computer [a “proactive initiative” within the FET/IST programme]
  • http://www.disappearing-computer.org/
  • this contains:
  • 2WEAR
  • ACCORD
  • ATELIER
  • AMBIENT AGORAS
  • E-GADGETS
  • FEEL
  • FICOM
  • GLOSS
  • GROCER
  • INTERLIVING
  • MIME
  • ORESTEIA
  • PAPER++, http://www.paperplusplus.net
  • SMART-ITS
  • SHAPE
  • SOB
  • WORKSPACE
• MRL - Uni of Nottingham master list of projects
  • http://www.mrl.nott.ac.uk/ then 'Projects' in the menu, then 'Currently Funded Projects' link
• .SHAPE - Situating Hybrid Assemblies In Public Environments
  • http://www.shape-dc.org/index.html
  • “understanding, developing and evaluating room-sized assemblies of hybrid, mixed reality artefacts in public places.”
  • A consortium of:
  • The Mixed Reality Laboratory (MRL), University of Nottingham, UK
  • Centre for User Oriented IT Design,Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm, Sweden
  • Work Interaction and Technology Research Group, King’s College London, UK
  • Interaction Design Centre, University of Limerick, Ireland
• MIME
• EQUATOR
• AMIRE
  • http://www.amire.net/overview.html
• Visual Hull [3D scanning / automatic generation of 3D models]
  • http://www.mpi-sb.mpg.de/~ming/visualhull/Visual_Hull_Projects.html
  • http://graphics.lcs.mit.edu/%7Ewojciech/vh/
• blue-c [Switzerland]
  • http://blue-c.ethz.ch/
• ARISE
  • http://www.cs.unc.edu/%7Eeve/idrive/index.html [sponsors at bottom]
• LaCoMoCo [Laboratory for Context-dependent Mobile Communication]
  • http://lacomoco.it-c.dk/index.jsp?menu=1
• mGain [Mobile Entertainment Industry and Culture]
  • http://www.knowledge.hut.fi/projects/mgain/contacts.html
• MUMIN [A Nordic Network for MUltiModal? INterfaces]
  • http://www.cst.dk/mumin/
  • Possible topics: interest in equipment-based, hands-on exercises and experiments, such as eye-tracking, touch-screen, magnetogram scanning, datagloves (CST) ….
• AWARE [Aware Home Resrach Inititative]
  • http://www.cc.gatech.edu/fce/ahri/sponsors/index.html
• The Virtual Worlds Consortium
  • http://www.hitlabnz.org/index.php?page=ptr-vwc

related nodes; Mixed Reality, Augmented Reality