In mid-May, partners and stakeholders from across academia, healthcare, industry, and the public sector gathered at SINTEF Digital in Oslo for a productive GEMINI XR meeting focused on the future of Extended Reality (XR) research and innovation in Europe. Representatives from SINTEF Community, SINTEF Digital, NTNU, Høgskolen i Molde, LandeFilm, Read more…
Virtual try-on for furniture is a well-established concept and major retailers deploy AR to anchor photorealistic couches, tables, and lamps inside a buyer’s home before purchase. The IKEA app – among others – popularized this pattern: clean catalog inputs, standardized product photography, stable geometry. This solves one problem – reducing Read more…
Update 10/11/2025: The Gaia System academic article is published: https://doi.org/10.3390/virtualworlds4040049 The Gaia System is an innovative tabletop projection mapping installation designed to transform how museums present information. Exhibited at Sortland Museum in Norway’s Vesterålen district, it merges physical models with digital storytelling, offering an engaging and interactive experience for visitors. Read more…
This early-stage work presents the first step in designing for user privacy and data privacy awareness in the metaverse from an ethical standpoint. The goal of this research is to document and analyze the privacy challenges that come from a prevalent metaverse application, align them with the related literature, and Read more…
The Projection Mapping Situational Layer (PMSL) is a tabletop projection mapping application, where the real-time positioning data of sea vessels in the Vesterålen district are visualized. The project is funded by the Research Council of Norway (no. 321550) through the Gaia Vesterålen project. A presentation video supporting the following scientific Read more…
InVizAR’s main objective was to explore efficient and user-friendly AR visualizations of sensor data describing “invisible fields”, like electromagnetic fields or radio signals. InVizAR was a short-scale, 9-month project targeting the development of prototypes for its visualization goal. Two prototype versions (A. and B.) were developed with the following features: Read more…
In our XR lab, VR locomotion, an important interaction component that enables navigation in VR environments, has been extensively investigated from conceptual and empirical standpoints. An empirical comparison of prevalent VR locomotion techniques, i.e., Walking-in-place (WIP), Controller, and Teleportation has been carried out (see Related scientific articles), to inform the Read more…
On June 8th, the Gaia System v1 (first prototype) of the Gaia Vesterålen project (led by Museum Nord-Lofotr Næringsdrift) was presented at the Sortland Museum. SINTEF Digital is the technical manager and a research partner in the project. The Gaia System uses projection mapping technology (or spatial Augmented Reality, if Read more…
In this project, prevalent VR text-input techniques, such as ray-casting, drum-like keyboard, head-directed input, and split keyboard, have been empirically evaluated. Results are described in the related scientific articles. The project was funded by the Research Council of Norway through the Centre for Service Innovation. A short video demonstration of Read more…
In this 2-month long internal project, the combination of AR visualization and personal assistants for Building Information Modelling (BIM) purposes was tested by developing an early prototype. The project was funded by internal SEP funding through the Research Council of Norway. A video demonstration of the early AR BIM prototype: