From HIT Lab NZ
Dr Zsolt Szalavári (Imagination, Vienna) is currently visiting the HIT Lab NZ until 11 December. He presented a seminar to the HIT Lab NZ students and staff about some of the amazing Mobile Augmented Reality work they have been doing at Imagination: telling us about their research, development and commercialization experience in the blooming and trendy area of augmented reality.
Below a short summary of his talk and his biography:
[mobile]AR@Imagination
Imagination offers now for a period of over 11 years a wide range of services for culture and science, for marketing and sales and for the industrial planning process.
A team of about a dozen researcher and developer with PhD level academic background, graphic artists, and designers Imagination creates interactive multimedia and virtual reality solutions in the form of individual installations, innovative interactive hands-on stations, showrooms, interactive 3D cinemas, complete visualization theaters. Our services range from conception and planning, via production and installation of the entire system (hardware, software, content), to security, control and maintenance.
Some of our members starting originally from the research field of augmented reality now we are emphasizing the possibility and impact of mobile augmented reality applications im many fields ranging from marketing and entertainment applications to complete augmented reality social network systems.
Dr. Zsolt Szalavári
With in depth and up-to-date knowledge of latest visual technologies including display, real-time graphics, and interaction technology Zsolt unifies the powers of these fields to interactive 3D experience creations. He is the principal designer and engineer of a multitude of complex projection solutions ranging from 360°-cinemas to interactive 3D virtual reality theatres.
Being a senior member of the team at Imagination Zsolt also managed a number of successful large-scale team projects including complete exhibition technology systems for Technisches Museum Wien; high-tec visitor centres for T-Mobile; complete integrated virtual reality R&D centers and many content and technology integration projects for 3D experiences.
Current interests include research on large-scale mobile augmented reality systems for storytelling and development and commercialization of the optical motion tracking system iotracker.
Zsolt holds a PhD of Technical and Natural Sciences of Vienna University of Technology, creating novel interfaces for augmented reality with siblings to many followup R&D projects. He is an MSc. of Fluid Mechanics and has a BSc. of Mechanical Engineering from Budapest University of Technology.
