VRVis

VRVis Zentrum für Virtual Reality und Visualisierung Forschungs-GmbH
Nonprofit organization
Founded 2000
Founder TU Wien
Headquarters Vienna, Austria
Key people
 Georg Stonawski (CEO), Gerd Hesina (CEO), Werner Purgathofer (scientific director)
Services Applied Research, Development and Consulting in Visual Computing (Computer Science)
Revenue ca.  5,1 million € (2014)[1]
Website www.vrvis.at

The VRVis Zentrum für Virtual Reality und Visualisierung (VRVis) is the largest independent research center in the area of Visual Computing in Austria, and one of the largest in Europe. It is one of currently 22 centrally funded COMET – Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies of Austria.[2] The VRVis Center [3] is located in Tech Gate Vienna in Vienna.

History

The VRVis Center for Virtual Reality and Visualization was founded in January 2000 funded by the Austrian Kplus Competence Center program. The main initiator was Werner Purgathofer from TU Wien, with 3 other Austrian institutes as co-investigators. In 2010 and in 2017 VRVis received new fundings from the Austrian COMET program.

VRVis is located in the science and technology park Tech Gate Vienna since 2001.

Organization and Business

VRVis functions as a cooperation between scientific and industry partners, partly funded by the Austrian and Viennese governments. It is organized as a non-profit limited company owned by an association that has the only purpose to administrate VRVis. The members of this association are currently (January 2015):[1]

The main business of VRVis is strategic and application oriented research in Visual Computing, with an emphasis on transferring state-of-the-art scientific results to companies in all areas. This includes projects financed by other funding sources, such as European projects and the Austrian Science Foundation. More than 50 FTE researchers from various fields cooperate with scientific and industrial partners to produce software and system solutions. Around 500 scientific publications have been published and 20 best paper awards have been achieved so far.

The scientific cooperation network of VRVis is quite large, including ETH Zurich (CH), University of Bergen (N), Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg (D), University of Rostock (D), KAUST (Saudi Arabia), University Medical Center Freiburg (D), Institute Claudio Regaud (F), Fondazione Santa Lucia (I), Delft University of Technology (NL), St Thomas' Hospital (UK), Virginia Tech (USA), Arizona State University (USA), City University London (UK), European Space Agency ESA, Fraunhofer IGD (D), Stanford University (USA), University of Konstanz (D) and many more.

Industry Partners include Agfa Healthcare (B/A), AVL List, Geodata, Austrian Federal Railways Infrastruktur AG, Kapsch TrafficCom AG, IMP - Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, and many more.

Competence Areas

The VRVis Center does research and technology transfer in the following four areas:

Visualization

Visual Analytics

Rendering

Computer Vision

Awards and Prizes

References

  1. 1 2 VRVis Geschaeftsbericht 2014.
  2. ↑ COMET - Competence Centres for Excellent Technologies, ERAWATCH/European Commission, erawatch.jrc.ec.europa.eu
  3. ↑ VRVis Factsheet COMET K1
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