{"id":13050,"date":"2022-05-04T13:29:03","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T13:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iti.gr\/iti\/?p=13050"},"modified":"2024-02-05T11:26:13","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T09:26:13","slug":"virtual-augmented-reality-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iti.gr\/iti\/en\/virtual-augmented-reality-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtual &#038; Augmented Reality Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"col-lg-12 col-md-12 col-12 p-0 mb-5\">\n<div class=\"main-image-container\">\n<div class=\"breadcrumbs overlay\" style=\"background-image: url('\/iti\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/slider-01.jpg');\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-lg-8 col-md-8 col-12 position-title\">\n<h2>About the Institute<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-lg-4 col-md-4 col-12\">\n<div class=\"position-button\">\n<div class=\"row button-container\">\n<div class=\"prev-button-text\">\n<h5>About &gt;<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"\/iti\/research-2\/\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"button-wrap\">\n<span class=\"button-content-wrapper\">Research Units<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"container mt-5\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-lg-4 col-md-4 col-12 mobile-sizes\">\n<div class=\"article-menu\">\n<div class=\"article-menu-list\">\n<div class=\"about-eng\"><a href=\"\/iti\/en\/about-2\/\">About<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"article-menu-style\"><a href=\"\/iti\/en\/about-2\/\">ITI Profile<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"article-menu-style\"><a href=\"\/iti\/en\/research-2\/\">Research Units<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"menu-titles\" style=\"padding-left: 20px;\"><b>Computational Perception And Interaction Sector<\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"article-menu-style\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a style=\"line-height: 20px; padding-top: 15px;\" href=\"\/iti\/en\/virtual-augmented-reality-2\/\">Virtual &amp; Augmented Reality<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"article-menu-style\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"\/iti\/visual-analytics-2\/\">Visual Analytics<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"article-menu-style\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"\/iti\/visual-computing-2\/\">Visual Computing<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"article-menu-style\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"\/iti\/cognitive-systems-robotics-2\/\">Cognitive Systems &amp; Robotics<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"menu-titles\" style=\"padding-left: 20px;\"><b>Multimedia, Networks &amp; e-Services Sector<\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"article-menu-style\" style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"\/iti\/multimedia-knowledge-2\/\">Multimedia, Knowledge and Social Media Analytics<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"article-menu-style\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"\/iti\/communication-networking-2\/\">Communication &amp; Networking<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"article-menu-style\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"\/iti\/intelligent-digital-transformation-2\/\">Intelligent Digital Transformation<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"menu-titles\" style=\"padding-left: 20px;\"><b>R&amp;D Infrastructure<\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"article-menu-style\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"\/iti\/additive-manufacturing-2\/\">Additive Manufacturing Research Unit<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"article-menu-style\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"\/iti\/smart-home-2\/\">Smart Home Research Infrastructure<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-lg-8 col-md-8 col-12 deskotop-sizes\">\n<div class=\"content-container\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"top-image\" src=\"\/iti\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/2860.720.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"title-main\">Virtual &amp; Augmented Reality Lab<\/h3>\n<div class=\"text-container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/varlab.iti.gr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/varlab.iti.gr\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Virtual and Augmented Reality Lab (VARLab), founded in 2000, is a fully equipped laboratory focusing on Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) application and research. It is also supported by a skilled team of researchers working on the design, development, integration and deployment of innovative AR\/VR applications. VARLab participates in numerous research projects, through which it has developed collaborations with the most active research and educational institutes, but also enterprises both in Greece and in Europe, in the areas of AR\/VR. Research and Innovation activities of the lab concern:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Research on the virtual representation of objects, modelling materials and developing techniques for simulation of their degradation due to time and usage.<\/li>\n<li>Research on how to accurately register virtual objects within the real environment for developing AR applications.<\/li>\n<li>Research on techniques for dynamic feedback through sensors and actuators for enabling real-time reactions according to physical laws, with respect to user motion and interaction between users and the virtual world.<\/li>\n<li>Simulated physical human-machine interaction techniques, based on recognition of gestures, objects and activity.<\/li>\n<li>New techniques for overlaying virtual objects into real scenes without prior knowledge of user\u2019s environment, e.g. QR codes, but using machine learning-based object recognition methods in real time (marker-less AR).<\/li>\n<li>Research and development of new gamification techniques in VR\/AR environment for providing immersive interfaces to users for undertaking complex tasks.<\/li>\n<li>Software optimisation techniques for low energy computing devices (e.g. AR glasses), for optimal execution of AR applications.<\/li>\n<li>High accurate human presence analysis, through advanced 2D\/3D signal processing techniques, for AR\/VR applications, but also for the simulation of buildings and general infrastructures.<\/li>\n<li>Advanced algorithms for photo-realistic 3D reconstruction of the environment or specific objects in the environment, for real-time applications.<\/li>\n<li>Methods and techniques for multi-user interaction in collaborative AR\/VR environments either remotely or in the same physical space.<\/li>\n<li>Methods and algorithms for automatic analysis, and characterisation of building or other infrastructure (e.g. solar panels), based on muti-sensorial data (e.g. thermal sensors, high-resolution RGB sensors) and techniques for real-time overlay of metadata in AR applications and VR tools. Applications areas of this research priority include education, cultural heritage, safety and security, healthcare, factories of the future, among others.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About the Institute About &gt; Research Units About ITI Profile Research Units Computational Perception And Interaction Sector Virtual &amp; Augmented Reality Visual Analytics Visual Computing Cognitive Systems &amp; Robotics Multimedia, Networks &amp; e-Services Sector Multimedia, Knowledge and Social Media Analytics Communication &amp; Networking Intelligent Digital Transformation R&amp;D Infrastructure Additive Manufacturing Research Unit Smart Home Research [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"plain-container","ast-site-content-layout":"normal-width-container","site-content-style":"unboxed","site-sidebar-style":"unboxed","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[479],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iti.gr\/iti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iti.gr\/iti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iti.gr\/iti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iti.gr\/iti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iti.gr\/iti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iti.gr\/iti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iti.gr\/iti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iti.gr\/iti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iti.gr\/iti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}