OPEK AI Seminar 2024

On the 12^th of February, the intelligent AR assistant for education which is part of the XR4ED platform was presented at a national event entitled ‘AI in modern life-The impact on society and Media’. The event was co-organized by OPEC and CYENS and was supported by the Municipality Nicosia.

It offered the possibility of active participation of citizens in the co-demand that will grow, highlighting the modern trends, approaches, and projectiles. The event consisted of two parts, a live demonstration session where XR4ED was presented and the second part of academic presentations.

More information:

https://opekcy.org/to-ai-sti-sygchroni-zoi-i-epidrasi-stin-koinonia-kai-ta-m-m-e/

Visual Heritage Expo Demo 2018

Between the 13-14 November 2018, I gave a presentation entitled "Underwater Virtual Reality Excavation" at the Visual Heritage Expo 2018 in Vienna, Austria. Members of the HCI Lab delivered a live demonstration and many participants tried it out. The demo presented an implementation of an immersive virtual environment for underwater archaeology in the form of a serious game. The main focus is on expanding the player’s knowledge, by teaching them about maritime archaeology and performing two archaeological procedures - tagging and dredging.

The dredging procedure was accomplished by implementing and extending an existing voxel-based sand simulation approach and rasterizing it using the marching cubes algorithm on the GPU. The extension of the simulation consisted in adding a custom dredging simulation step that removes the sand from the grid. Also, an alternative approach for sand slippage using a custom heuristic exists. The game is developed for the HTC Vive head-mounted display and uses room-scale experience, allowing the user to move freely in the virtual environment.

More information:

https://www.chnt.at/vh-expo/