Student excursion to Graz completed
Four students and two scientific research assistants from the IIB visit TU Graz and work with the game engine Unity
2023/03/23 by Pascal Mosler
The Institute of Numerical Methods and Informatics in Civil Engineering (IIB) and the Institute for Urban Design at the Technical University of Graz have been cooperating in teaching and research for three years. For the first time since the cooperation was established, the IIB organised a five-day excursion to Graz with students from Faculty 13. There, the participants worked intensively with the game engine Unity.
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Testing the developed multiplayer virtual reality application -
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Dr. Volker Settgast from Fraunhofer Austria Research GmbH (right) guides Maximilian Gehring, M.Sc. (left) through a virtual reality application -
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Pascal Mosler, M.Sc. (right) in the DAVE of the Institute for Computer Graphics and Knowledge Visualisation -
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The four student participants of the excursion
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On Tuesday morning, 14 March 2023, the four students, led by Pascal Mosler, M.Sc. and Maximilian Gehring, M.Sc. set off by train to Graz. On the ten-hour train ride, they already had a lively exchange about the game engine Unity and its application in teaching and research at the IIB. Once they arrived in Graz, they checked into their hotel rooms and had dinner.
On Wednesday morning, Dr. Volker Settgast at the Institute for Computer Graphics and Knowledge Visualisation at TU Graz gave the excursion participants a guided tour of the DAVE (Definitely Affordable Virtual Environment) and vividly presented the milestones in the development of virtual reality. In the afternoon, the students met Prof. Wolfgang Dokonal at TU Graz before inspecting the Unity projects from the previous workshop. Over the next two days, the students prepared the projects for use with Cardboard Virtual Reality and multiplayer functionality. For testing, architecture students from TU Graz, whose urban designs formed the basis for the Unity projects, came by and gave feedback on the development.
In addition to exploring the historic old town of Graz and the Schlossberg on their own, Prof. Wolfgang Dokonal enabled the excursion participants to make a trip to southern Styria on the last day. There, during a wine tasting and a stop at a Buschenschank, they convinced themselves of the culinary diversity of the region.
On Saturday, 18 March 2023, the participants arrived back in Darmstadt full of impressions. The IIB thanks the organisers for making the excursion possible and is pleased about the commitment of the students who voluntarily took part in the excursion during their lecture-free time.
