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Nominated for Interactive Business

Inside HPA

PatientZero Games GmbH & HPA, Hamburg

The Hamburg Port Authority (HPA) is responsible for the future-oriented and sustainable management of the Port of Hamburg. With our holistic concept, we keep the port and people moving. Innovative technology and intelligent solutions help us make the Port of Hamburg an important economic driver for the entire country across the entire value chain, exploit development opportunities and strengthen its market position. We have compiled some of our innovative solutions and projects in the Inside HPA app. Here you can get an interactive insight and further information and try out many applications yourself.

REVisAR: Großes. Einfach. Sichtbar. Machen.

EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG, Karlsruhe

As an energy supplier with great and long-standing experience in the planning and construction of power plant projects, but also of solar and wind power plants, we proceed with great care. With our innovative app REVisAR (Renewable Energy Visualization with Augmented Reality), our project planners will be able to accompany the development of projects with even greater precision and transparency in the future and support their implementation. With REVisAR we visualize the energy transition. Wind farms, PV parks, overhead power lines are objects that shape the landscape, the size and impact of which no one can imagine. With REVisAR we give people an idea. At any location around a planned project, we visualize the planned facilities with AR: live and animated (Interactive Business). Our cost-effective way of creating live views, photos and videos we create transparency and facts at an early stage for an objective and fair discussion.

COUP – Cockpit for Collaborative Urban Planning

Professorship Digital City Science of HafenCity University, Hamburg

The COUP was created as an interactive medium for group collaboration and decision-making in urban planning. It allows design professionals to create in-depth analysis of design proposals in real time using an AR table and associated website. Both provide simulation modules such as wind, pedestrian movement simulation, and more for various key functions in urban design. Here, new building configurations can be jointly created using physical objects and analyzed through the simulations. These can then be examined in more detail in the web application. The COUP was planned as a planning module for architecture and urban planning firms to enter into a joint discussion with the help of design objects and to offer the possibility of obtaining simulation results in the early design phase. In HCU’s Master of Urban Planning, the COUP is used in courses for problem solving within projects.

Nominated for Interactive Entertainment

Legacy of Tomorrow

Artificial Rome GmbH, Berlin

Legacy of Tomorrow was produced for Metaverse Fashion Week 2022 under the motto “Future Heritage”. The challenge was to make various fashion pieces and fabrics available in outstanding visual quality as a multi-user experience. The event was to be an equal alternative to the real fashion show and had to be technically accessible with various end devices. The goal was to take the otherwise very exclusive runway show to a new and extraordinary level in a fascinating world. The virtual space allows unlimited scope for expression and storytelling around designer fashion. In doing so, the applied pixel streaming enables a high-definition real-time experience based on the internet connection. The setup gives designers the chance to present hyper-complex fashion pieces and historical garments in digital form. In addition, various interaction mechanisms promote a collaborative experience.

VR Giants

Risa Interactive, Graz

In VR Giants, you and your fellow player take on the roles of Goliath, a giant controlled by the VR player, and David, a small person controlled by the on-screen player. Together, the two must solve puzzles as they adventure through deserts, icebergs, lava caves and pastures to ultimately rescue David’s lost sheep. The true magic of the game lies in the fine balance of power between the small and large players. Goliath is chained to an anchor, which is why he can only move within a limited range. Because of his size, he can lift, manipulate or throw heavy objects and is invincible. David, on the other hand, can move freely but is vulnerable and needs help from Goliath to reach higher places. Only through good communication and teamwork can you succeed in solving the tasks together. More on -> https://store.steampowered.com/app/1124160/VR_Giants/

Frankenstein’s Last Will

Victor Stocker, Halle (Saale)

In this VR puzzle game, the player controls the ghost of the late Dr. Frankenstein. Shortly before his death, he invented a machine that creates a ball of ectoplasm that he can touch from the afterlife. This is his only way to interact with the world of the living as a ghost. Using the ectoplasm ball, he can create chain links to form useful tools to operate his machines. Help him fulfill his last will, complete his creation and take over the monster’s body so he can walk among the living again.

Nominated for Interactive Education

UYC – My AR Creature Workshop

slanted realities, Berlin

As part of the Ukrainian Youth Club, an initiative for refugee youth from Ukraine, the goal was to create a place for integration, learning and connection. For this purpose, we developed a workshop format in which the young people were given the tools to design and implement augmented reality content: After a short introduction, participants sketched their own creatures on paper. Then they modeled them in 3D, drew individual textures and designed individual animations. In addition, individual QR codes were printed on postcards to share and permanently keep the AR experience. The project combines education with new technology and opens up a whole new world of learning for young people. It promotes creative design, teamwork and offers an interactive experience. The workshop turns young people themselves into experience designers who are inspired to actively shape their environment with new media.

Deepfake Detective

holoNative, Kiel

AI image processing tools make it possible to quickly measure and alter faces. The fact that our perception is technologically and artificially distorted is a social, political and individual challenge. To raise awareness of this issue, a VR application was developed in which students* are trained as “deepfake detectives” to identify anomalies in various video materials. The game is part of a holistic workshop in which participants learn about the impact of deepfakes on our world, society, and how to deal with altered or authentic content using various techniques.

ErUM VR – Exploration of Space and Matter

Markenfilm Space, Hamburg

The world and our environment consist of countless processes that are not visible and are difficult to understand because they are simply not observable. Modern research brings light into the darkness and explores the secrets of life. But how can these secrets be made tangible? And how can scientific research be made an adventure, fun, but also understandable? The ErUM VR Edutainment Experience answers this question of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research by immersing users directly into the world of science. The goal is to discover the different research areas (particles, matter and universe) of DESY Hamburg in a playful, immersive and informative way.

Nominated for Young Talent

What are you looking at? Evaluation of Cinematic Virtual Reality using Eye Tracking

Jonas Happ, Hamburg

Not only do new projects advance XR, but also their scientific evaluation! In a VR study, motion sickness and immersion are evaluated using 360° videos and eye tracking data of the viewers is recorded. This is being done in field trials at OMR and VRHQ with a combined total of more than 400 subjects. Heatmaps of the results can be viewed in VR. Analysis of the eye tracking demonstrated Attentional Synchrony (AS) on expected moving Areas of Interest and showed center and horizon bias. The results allow conclusions to be drawn about 360° video production, specifically editing. High AS means 360° video producers can guide viewers through the space and reduce the risk of missing important parts of the story in the 360° space. In addition, audience-dependent advertising effects and the correlation between video rating, immersion, and motion sickness were shown. Based on bachelor thesis.

Paddling to the Future

Marko Stojkovic, Mainz

In collaboration with Stiftung Lebensraum Elbe, we designed an experience to provide a unique and immersive stand-up paddling adventure in Virtual Reality (VR). The main objective of this initiative is not only to promote a large-scale nature conservation project “Hamburg, deine Flussnatur”, but also to increase the empathy and awareness of the citizens of Hamburg towards nature and animals. To enhance the user’s experience, we incorporated a real paddle board that the user can stand on while wearing the VR headset. We also used a real paddle that is tracked using the HTC Tracker 3.0 to simulate the paddle’s movements in VR, creating an unparalleled level of immersion for the user. The use of actual equipment provides an authentic feel that makes the user feel like they are genuinely paddling in Hamburg’s waters. With this project, we have successfully merged technology and nature, resulting in a product that promotes the empathy and understanding of our environment.

From The Main Square

Pedro Harres – Film Universität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf, Berlin

A compact illustration of social disruption. A civilization blossoms, with all its contradictions, only to become a danger to itself. Encircling a central square, a new town emerges in all its diversity. A crossroad of stories, buildings, hopes, and conflicts. Social ties and cultures take root. People nurture sympathy and care for their equals, but also animosity towards those who are different. It doesn’t take long for an “us versus them” atmosphere to take over. “From The Main Square” is an interactive VR experience that invites the viewer to witness the rise and fall of a divided society.

Nominated for Best Technology

Needle Engine – Seamless 3D Web Experience

Needle Tools GmbH – founded by Felix Herbst & Marcel Wiessler, Halle (Saale)

We add the third dimension to the web and set new standards for designing, developing and distributing immersive 3D web applications. New media forms such as virtual and augmented reality are changing how people use the Internet. Collaborative work, e-commerce, virtual worlds and knowledge transfer are shifting online. Our platform seamlessly integrates 3D content into modern development processes. We enable designers and developers to make content available online using familiar tools such as Unity, Blender or Omniverse – from PCs to smartphones to high-tech glasses. Thanks to integrated function modules and automatic optimization, Needle Engine ensures rapid and fast workflows with maximum flexibility. The use of open standards makes it possible to create the 3D applications of tomorrow right now – so we support new hardware like Apple Vision Pro and Meta Quest 3 from day 1.

Puppet Play

Unechte Sachen Lukas Hort, Hamburg

With Puppet Play, anyone can quickly and easily create their own animated movies in VR, with no prior experience. Grab a character and move it around like in real life. Puppet Play can save this movement as an animation in real time. Repeat this a few times and you’ve brought an entire scene to life. Work like real movies in your own virtual studio! Experiment with different angles, make your own tracking shots and play with the light. At the end, the movie can be exported as a regular video to share with friends and on social media. The goal of Puppet Play is to give people from young to old a whole new way to express themselves creatively. To do this, we use the unique interaction capabilities of VR and a playful user experience. Puppet Play originated as a project at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences in the Animation and Game program.

2Sync: Mixed Reality SDK & Tech Demo House Defender

2Sync, Potsdam

The 2Sync SDK enables the development of novel, innovative and immersive mixed reality experiences that automatically synchronize and adapt real and virtual worlds to each user’s environment. In doing so, the applications created are developed to be space-independent so that the objects in the game world adapt to the physical objects in the room in the best possible way. This enables free movement in the real-world environment and application, providing natural interaction with physical objects, significantly higher immersion, lower risks of use, lower cost for developers and users (compared to existing free walk experiences), less preparation time, and higher acceptance of the technology by users due to completely eliminated motion sickness. Our House Defender tech demo showcases the SDK’s features in a playful way, and is already delighting over 20,000 players as they defend their entire homes from the approaching monsters.

Nominated for Best Installation

Non-Virtual Reality Games

Team Name: 3m Jump, consisting of: David Vath, Bent Nühlen and Lukas Hort, Hamburg

Hunt ghosts or build your own universe, all without the VR headset. Non-Virtual Reality Games is a novel game collection for VR systems that works only with the controllers. All games are experienced in the real world and mediated only by the vibrations of the controllers and sound. So far, the collection includes 2 games. One is “Ghost Hunter,” in which your room is haunted by ghosts. Together with a friend, track down all the ghosts through the vibration of the controllers and make them burst! And “I Packed My Universe,” which is played against each other. A variation of I Packed My Suitcase, in which you place planets freely in space one by one. Before adding a new one, however, you have to confirm the positions of all previously placed planets. The project originated in the Games Master at HAW Hamburg and is currently being actively developed.

Meta Alchemia

govar GmbH, München

Imagine stepping into a portal that transports you back in time to ancient Egypt, where you find yourself standing in front of a huge false door, intricately carved with hieroglyphics and symbols of a long-forgotten era. Thanks to govar’s cutting-edge extended realities technology, this vision became a reality for visitors at REM Mannheim. The ability to physically walk through an ancient artifact is a testament to the power of technology in preserving and sharing our rich cultural heritage. The collaboration between Ugo Dossi, REM Mannheim and govar not only showcases the potential of extended realities but also highlights the importance of preserving historical artifacts in innovative ways. With govar’s technology, art lovers and history enthusiasts can now engage with artifacts on a whole new level. This immersive experience allows us to appreciate the artistry, craftsmanship, and symbolism of ancient cultures in ways previously unimaginable.

VR Installation “Explore the iguversum with the igus:Bike”

igus GmbH, Köln

At the Hannover Messe and Eurobike 2023, we set up our attraction to present the igus:bike and our VR world. Here the visitor could ride with the real igus:bike in a virtual world (iguversum) and collect things there to get into the top list. Coordination and fitness were required here, as well as collecting the right things. Old plastic gives more time, igus components make you faster. With this case you could already link 3 things. A bicycle produced from recycled plastic and maintenance-free with igus components, paired with our digital world, the digital twin of the igus factory, so to speak (in reference to the fact that this was set up here as an attraction and the “real” collaborative world is set up in VR with more direct customer benefits).

Nominated for Zeitgeist

ClimateChangeVR

videoreality, Frankfurt am Main

The interactive VR experience “ClimateChangeVR” visualizes the effects of climate change and makes them tangible and emotional for people. The VR experience allows people to travel in time to the year 2050, and experience the dramatic effects of drought, loss of biodiversity and other disasters. The goal is to touch people emotionally in order to develop an understanding of the importance of this crisis and to derive mechanisms for action as a result. We have had the VR experience scientifically monitored – the evaluation (August 2023) shows that the VR application: 1. evokes an increase in perception of the urgency of climate change. 2. reduces the psychological distance the user feels towards climate change. 3. increases the subjects’ environmental awareness after playing the game. 4. has a positive effect on behavioral intentions and self-efficacy. 5. helps to acquire new knowledge about climate change.

DARKENING

NowHere Media, Berlin

How is the world perceived by people with depression? The animated and interactive VR film deals with depression and ways of coping with it. Director and protagonist Ondřej takes us through different environments, telling the story of his struggle with depression and interactively conveying how he found a way to cope with it. Through animations that combine images of Ondřej’s home with abstract images of his feelings, viewers experience and understand what it is like to live with this disease, how to deal with it, and what techniques can be used to feel better despite depression.

You Destroy. We Create

NowHere Media, Berlin

Witness how Ukrainian art and culture have become targets of the ongoing war, and meet the inspiring people on the frontlines protecting it. What happens when museums can no longer show their collections, instead need to hide them? What does it mean to be a street artist during war? What music do you make when your country is under attack? “You Destroy. We Create” takes you on an immersive journey through Ukraine, where artists and professionals from the cultural sphere are protecting, rebuilding and creating art. Since the start of the war, civilian deaths have mounted to thousands and seven million have fled the country. Another casualty has been culture. According to UNESCO over 200 sites of cultural importance have been damaged. This timely journalistic piece uses a combination of 360°/180° stereo videos, drone footage, photogrammetry scans and CG animations to bring you an emotionally engaging, urgent human story.

Nominated for International Production

Dreaming of Lebanon

DPPA Innovation Cell, USA

“Dreaming of Lebanon” is virtual reality documentary that provides an immersive experience into the lives of young Lebanese people and their hopes for the future. The documentary utilizes cutting-edge 360-degree filming technology that enable viewers to engage in an interactive interview with three young Lebanese from various walks of life and different places of the country to explore their realities.

Kabaret

Loddenland Studio, Norway

Synopsis: Kabaret is an interactive VR experience about synchronized coral spawning, and a singing shrimp’s worries about the future. It’s a playful and explorative journey from the edge of our galaxy to the depths of our oceans. We strum out a chime on glowing phytoplankton, swim trough a portal of seafood aspic – the titular “Kabaret”, a dish once popular in Norway – and are carried by the moon to a coral reef in mating season. But all is not well here. Can we help save the coral’s yearly spawning? Kabaret is part musical, part documentary and invites us to indulge our curiosity of the natural world, and reflect on our relationship to it. Single user experience for Quest 2. Duration between 15 and 22 minutes.

Sorella’s Story

Soul Vision Films Australia

Sorella’s Story transforms the story behind a single smuggled 1941 photograph, buried by history, into an unforgettable 15-minute immersive experience. Inside a VR headset, the viewer is transported to a 360 snowy landscape with 10-year-old girl Sorella Epstein. Tragically, Sorella and almost 4,000 Latvian Jewish women and children were ordered to undress in freezing temperatures prior to a mass execution on a beach in Liepāja, Latvia during the Holocaust. Sorella’s Story is a visceral reminder and warning of how prejudice can escalate to devastating tragedy. This impactful story invites the viewer to accompany Sorella and some of the women as they embark on their last journey so that we never forget.

Nominated for the Community Award

Deepfake Detective

holoNative, Kiel

AI image processing tools make it possible to quickly measure and alter faces. The fact that our perception is technologically and artificially distorted is a social, political and individual challenge. To raise awareness of this issue, a VR application was developed in which students* are trained as “deepfake detectives” to identify anomalies in various video materials. The game is part of a holistic workshop in which participants learn about the impact of deepfakes on our world, society, and how to deal with altered or authentic content using various techniques.

BODIES UNDER INFLUENCE

Fernanda Ortiz, Hamburg

BODIES UNDER INFLUENCE is a real-time virtual reality dance performance that choreographically explores the immersive experiential space between the real and virtual worlds. What happens when not only humans but their interdependencies with nature come into focus? Where does movement begin, where does touch end, and where might humans and nature merge? 30 VR users are synchronized real and virtual. They interactively and collaboratively dive into an immersive world between dance, music and creative technology. Live motion capturing, live vocals & music through a 4 channel sound system enable new sensory experiential spaces. BODIES UNDER INFLUENCE is a choreographic speculation of accumulative change that designs alternative lifestyles and future worlds/realities in and through immersive VR experiences. The VR dance performance points forward to the innovative potential of the city of Hamburg at the intersection of dance and technology.

REVisAR: Großes. Einfach. Sichtbar. Machen.

EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG, Karlsruhe

As an energy supplier with great and long-standing experience in the planning and construction of power plant projects, but also of solar and wind power plants, we proceed with great care. With our innovative app REVisAR (Renewable Energy Visualization with Augmented Reality), our project planners will be able to accompany the development of projects with even greater precision and transparency in the future and support their implementation. With REVisAR we visualize the energy transition. Wind farms, PV parks, overhead power lines are objects that shape the landscape, the size and impact of which no one can imagine. With REVisAR we give people an idea. At any location around a planned project, we visualize the planned facilities with AR: live and animated (Interactive Business). Our cost-effective way of creating live views, photos and videos we create transparency and facts at an early stage for an objective and fair discussion.

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