Thomas Kienzl leads an innovation driven studio focused on exhibitions, interactive installations, design and architectural spaces.
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With an eye to the future, technology, art and science.
  • How I work.
Showing what is possible.
  • What I do.
Exhibition Design. Architectural spaces. Visualizing ideas.
  • What You get.

Entire Work

Together with my companies and partners I have realized over 1500 projects for 150 customers in more than 25 years. The following list shows a selection of my projects.

Selected Clients

Other clients include EDF France, Audi, Tesla, Steelcase, University of Sheffield, DPR construction, Pennsylvania State University, Venta, City Graz, Bene, Land Steiermark, City Vienna, VAEB, ZED Istanbul, EOS and others.

Awards

IF Communication Design Award, Reddot Design Award, Top of Styria, German Design Award, UDay XI Wettbewerb, UTC FH Vorarlberg, Architectural 3D Award, Animago Award, SFG, Green Panther Styria, creative graz award.

Selected Projects

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The public can gain an insight into the future hospital. The information centre next to the building site provides an overview of the overall healthcare provision in the Liezen district as well as information on the construction project. The opportunity to take virtual 3D tours rounds off the information on offer.

Clients

  • Gesundheitsfond Steiermark & Kages

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  • Design / Architecture
  • Digital Experience
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A unique Infopark has been created at Weststeiermark railway station to bring the dimensions and development of the Koralm Railway to life.

A park for walking, relaxing and learning. What to see.
1. original drill head with a diameter of ten meters.
2. full-size tunnel model.
3. ecopark with ecological compensation areas
4. An overview of the Koralm Railway: information in pictures and text

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  • Design / Architecture
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Augmented reality exhibition on the five areas of activity of Energie Steiermark.
A symbolic image lying on the floor is scanned for viewing. The virtual model on the iPad then appears in its place. It is seamlessly integrated into the surrounding space. The viewer can call up further information about the 3D object on the tablet and operate interactive animations.

Clients

  • Energie Steiermark

Credits

  • Software development Philipp Reiter, 3D Schmiede
  • Software: Unreal, iOS tablets
  • Hardware: iPad

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  • Digital Experience
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Bring your model to life in a 3D digital factory planning process.

edddison for Tecnomatix Plant Simulation is an interactive, user-friendly 3D layout tool to configure and walk through your factory before it becomes a reality. Interactive presentations can be easily used by people unfamiliar with 3D software, such as clients, managers, colleges and stakeholders. They can play an active role and work with the core features of Plant Simulation during a meeting and presentation. The solution allows users to control the 3D Plant Simulation model with hardware such as mixed reality tools (tangible objects and webcams) or touch devices and tablets, while making decisions on the spot.

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  • Development
  • Digital Experience
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The railway track and tunnel Feldkirchen – Weitendorf (Flughafenast) is a part of the ÖBB Koralmbahn, an 127 km-long double-track, electrified, high-speed railway. It will connect the cities of Graz and Klagenfurt. In order to communicate the project to a broad public and the local population, a bigger exhibition was established.

Requirement: As the room is not large, there should be no walls, fixtures or anything else to obstruct the view. Visitors should be able to see everything from every point. This is especially important for group tours, so that everyone has a good view of the presenter and what is being shown. A central table in the middle and walls with information around it - that's roughly how you could describe the exhibition in one sentence. A large table throughout is the strong exhibit of the exhibition. The room gets a centre, visitors have orientation and groups can be guided and led well. Visitors do not have to concentrate on many scattered exhibits in the room, but focus on what is important. In the end, visitors walk around the table, look around and understand - a nice idea, isn't it?

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NOBATEK/INEF4 developed the participatory planning tool IMMERSITE®. IMMERSITE® is based on the edddison technology. It is a participatory planning tool that allows planners of a construction or development project (e.g. social housing landlords, developers, local authorities, etc.) to present it to residents and future users via a 3D visualization model in real time. IMMERSITE® is interactive and ergonomic and encourages co-creation by all project stakeholders, facilitating the appropriation of the project, its realization and the improvement of its quality.

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  • Design / Architecture
  • Digital Experience
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The Koralm railway is the extension of the Trans-European Railway Corridor VI in Northern Italy. It is part of the international axis that runs from Poland to Italy and thus connects the Baltic and Mediterranean Seas.

An interactive 3D installation ensures that all the content is presented in a multimedia way, thus making it readily available to all visitors. This possibility is made a reality by edddison, a hardware/software solution to make complex projects easily accessible to a broad public.

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  • Digital Experience
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“Make your 3D file come alive.”

3D and interaction are booming — whether in the worlds of construction, presentation, gaming or manufacturing. The demand to interact with 3D data is soaring, but how navigating? Mouse and keyboard are a thing of the past and users need programming skills to create an interactive app. edddison is working on solving this issue by developing tools to turn 3D files easily into an interactive experience. Architects, BIM engineers, designers, marketers, sales reps, engineers, CG artists, media designers and CAD users can design easy-to-use and convincing interactive applications. edddison fits seamlessly into existing applications such as BIM, digital prototyping, simulation and serious games.

For an accessible virtual 3D world, with easy navigation and usable for everyone.

Credits

  • edddison provides cutting-edge products for making 3D data interactive.

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  • Development
  • Digital Experience
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We did several works for Permastelissa. One is a interactive edddison desk at Permasteelisa Group´s representative Office, Palazzo Giustinian Lolin, Venice.

Permasteelisa Group (www.permasteelisagroup.com) is a worldwide leading Contractor in the engineering, project management, manufacturing and installation of architectural envelopes and interior systems. The Group brings its Know-How and expertise to all projects, in particular when dealing with Special Features Buildings, beginning with the design development phases all the way to the successful completion, achieving the customer's expectations.

Credits

  • Realtime presentations in BIM workflows
  • Software: Revit, Unity3D, Autodesk Showcase, edddison
  • Hardware: edddison mixed reality setup

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  • Development
  • Digital Experience
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The Egger product line consists of a multitude of wooden products for building houses and furniture. Each of these products is characterized by a very special trait which decisively influences its possible application. But how can we show our customers this multiplicity of products and their utilization in an easy, smart and clear way?

At this point edddison with its self-developed interactive device, again comes into operation. With an application, which was especially tailor made for the particular requirements of Egger Wood, the system becomes an interactive library of materials with practical and descriptive features. With the help of a virtual house the production engineer, architect, carpenter or interior decorator can now test the suitability of each material for the desired purpose. Thus the impact of a material-change on constructional and/ or optical issues can directly be experienced in a 3D presentation of the house in real-time.

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  • Digital Experience
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We are doing several projects for Energie Steiermark, let me present one of them.

Currently planning one of the biggest education and training centers in Austria. The project “E-Campus” is being planned by utilizing Building Information Modeling (short: BIM). This process is based on a virtual CAD 3D model coupled with other relevant information about the project. This 3D model can easily be visualized, thus providing numerous advantages for planners and employers. That way, employees and managers are able to better envision the architecture, the construction process and its individual phases as well as the environment and facilities. This allows them to make decisions faster and more effective.

Credits

  • Several interactive technologies to visualize projects and buildings
  • Hardware: edddison mixed reality setup, edddison & VR.
  • Software: edddison, Autodesk Revit, Unreal Engine

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  • Development
  • Digital Experience
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At Symetri, we work to tailor digital product solutions for BIM, product design and lifecycle management with our customers, so they can get more done in less time.

With around 750 employees and over 250,000 users in Northern Europe, we can offer effective solutions and associated guidance in everything from 3D modelling and simulation to PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) and BIM (Building Information Modelling). Thanks to our broad experience, we know what customers value: user-friendly, personal and accessible solutions and personal commitment. In this way, we have succeeded in creating a concept of success that has resulted in long-lasting customer relationships. We have over 30 offices in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, the UK, Ireland and the USA. Symetri is part of the Addnode Group.

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  • Software: Unity3D, Navisworks, Unreal Engine, edddison
  • Hardware: edddison mixed reality setup, Touchscreen, Tablet

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  • Development
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The task was to enliven the large empty space and allow the children to actively create. The framework conditions required simple and clever ideas. We decided to work partly with the principle of "Ikea hacking". This means that we selected furniture that was adapted after purchase. In this way, the task was fulfilled functionally while at the same time reducing costs. The design of the furniture allows the pupils to build and use variants on their own, which is done daily and with enthusiasm. Form a mobile movable "furniture-island" in the middle of the room, Caves to crawl into and hide, Frame to crawl around, reading stairs to listen and discuss, build them together in different ways.

IKEA furniture hack: the idea is to customize, personalize and make great design even better at an affordable price.

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The central railway station in Graz is, with a daily customer frequency of about 30.000 railway customers, one of the most important traffic junctions in Austria. Besides a further frequency improvement, its national and international importance will also continue rising with the completion of the Koralm-track in 2026. How can the necessary assimilations be displayed to the citizens of Graz and the visitors of the railway station? In The ÖBB Infobox at the central railway station Graz. The interested public is able to inform itself about the building project “Central Railway Station Graz 2020”. With the help of numerous renderings, interactive edddison installation, around a huge architecture-model, the project is presented.

Credits

  • Software: Unity, Cinema4D, edddison
  • Hardware: edddison mixed reality setup and Touchscreen

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  • Design / Architecture
  • Digital Experience
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In this exhibition space, the edddison interface is exhibited in combination with the latest Autodesk software. The goal is to introduce visitors to this easy-to-use solution for real-time architectural visualization.

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  • Development
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_zur form (_on form) is a collaborative mixed-reality installation by Florian Grond, Thomas Kienzl and Gabriele Engelhardt. In it, mathematical formulas are transformed into 3D forms and are presented as sculptures together with a tangible mixed reality installation. The project also features photographs of the support forms, the negative casts that emerge out of the form production process. _zur form makes a contemporary contribution to the well-established tradition of representing mathematical functions as 3D forms, which dates back to 19th-century Germany. The early forms inspired a number of artists in the 19th and 20th centuries, and also became the point of departure for the conception of our project. In German, the word "begreifen" (to understand) literally means to grasp an idea, as with a hand. The transformation of formulas into forms also emphasizes the original meaning of the word "information," which is "bringing into form." Thus, by making tangible objects out of abstract mathematical concepts, the sculptures and their representations underline both the material and physiological aspects that pertain to the construction and accessibility of knowledge.

Exhibited at SIGGRAPH San Diego, Kibela Space for Art in Maribor, TRANSITION: Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg Lehmkuhlenbusch, BARD Graduate Center in New York.

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  • Design / Architecture
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Various pieces of presentation furniture was developed for the public relations department of the Joanneum University of Applied Sciences in Graz.

Clients

  • FH Joanneum

Credits

  • Several furnitures

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  • Design / Architecture
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Computer nonfunction causes aggression.

The computer is one of our daily used tools. The impact of its function on the user's mood is essential. Malfunctions - as seen way too often - provoke uneasiness, annoyance and even fantasies of destruction. Architects work with a whole range of materials. One of them is polyurethane (PU) foam, used for the installation of windows. It has the wonderful quality that it expands while foaming. Which brings us to the following scenario: Combining the computer with foam. We put the foam into the case, the foam expands, and the user gets the satisfaction of watching his computer pass away.

Clients

  • executed in NCC / Netperformance

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  • Art / Culture / Sience
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Use and feel the newest easy to use 3D technologies at TED - by a simple move of your hand.

In the course of the TED-Conference 2010 the modular home company Living Homes presented its newly developed “Green House”. It differs from other modular homes on the market in numerous features and thus turns it into an ecologically beneficial home for responsible builders. But how can a house, its building technique and construction be descriptively illustrated within the scope of a conference? This was possible through the use of the edddison. With an exclusively drafted software-application based on Autodesk products, a 3D real-time visualization (game-engine for architects) had been realized for Living Homes. By means of realistic three-dimensional visualization of the “Green House”, the visitors are being playfully acquainted with the recent construction technology. Astonishing possibilities and the enormous capability of the Autodesk products allow the visitor to experience the house and its outstanding innovations on a virtual tour through the several rooms and floors even before the building is constructed. Video with Brian Pene

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  • Design / Architecture
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More than 10 million people in 185 countries use products of Autodesk to put down ideas “on paper” in a resource-saving way. The Autodesk Gallery in San Francisco was built to dignify the design-process which enables a great idea to become reality. But how can we visualize this process for our customers?

One possibility is the MRI (Mixed Reality Interface), developed by the Austrian company Kedddison (formally KOMMERZ). With an exclusively created software based on Autodesk-products, a 3D-realtime visualization for Tesla Motors had been realized, which depicts the astonishing possibilities and the enormous capability of our Autodesk-products. Thus we show the visitor of the Autodesk Gallery in San Francisco how they are able to also cope with unusual challenges within the business process.

Credits

  • In cooperation with Autodesk
  • Software: Autodesk Showcase
  • Hardware: edddison mixed reality setup (MRI)
  • In cooperation with HP inc.

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  • Digital Experience
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Selling complex technologies is difficult and time consuming - because - it is hard to present these in a way that clients can understand and visualize. Nokia Siemens Networks is using the edddison platform and a a tablet in combination with a 3D modell to deal with this issue.

The mobile-infrastructure of the future shall become as dynamic and flexible as the radio waves it propagates. This is also the goal of Nokia Siemens Networks, Europe's number two in the field of mobile-infrastructure supplier. But how can such complex techniques be communicated to the public?

One possibility, to vividly present their competence and innovation at conferences and fairs, the company found a solution edddison. The interactive 3D-solution stimulates several sensory-levels of the user with optic, acoustic and haptic signals and invites them to interactively explore also complex technical contents. Thanks to the easy handling even untrained users are immediately able to simply and intuitively deal with the mobile-infrastructure issue. In order to visualize the capabilities of global experts in global service delivery centers we have been looking for a presentation system which would allow - to quickly and intuitively switch between different topics.

Credits

  • Inactive 3D Apps for marketing
  • Software: Unity3D, edddison
  • Hardware: Tablet, Touchscreen, edddison mixed reality setup

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  • Development
  • Digital Experience
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We had the task to create an interior of the cybercity. Visitors can choose from various project presentations on the theme of the digital city. The project represents the reflection of a real, complex, urban situation and is open for the future. The Cybercity consists of virtual worlds, interactive programs and electronic. As a complement to this content, the design contribution can be seen, such as machines to handle, material to attack, clearly recognizable constructive principles. Materiality as a complementary element of the virtual.

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  • Art / Culture / Sience
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Not only are we at the end of a century, we are also about to leave the analog age. There is a digital world before us. “Being Digital”, as Nicholas Negroponte calls his bible for this new world.

Ars Electronica ´95 started from the premise that information is highly valued in our society. The exchange of data via networks and cables has become a central part of our lives and creates new forms of interaction and communication in our society. Thomas Kienzl created an interactive installation for the festival.

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  • Art / Culture / Sience
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The Virtual Reality flight simulator Humphrey gave visitors the immersive experience of flying over Linz and Upper Austira. To take a step in the direction of the ancient dream of being able to fly as a human being. The head is completely free to move, and the respective angles of view are shown through VR goggles. This creates a particularly immediate flight experience. Flight simulator "Humphry" does not represent a space capsule that you enter, but is a technical apparatus that you strap on in the manner of a rocket pack, is the minimum technical support that a person needs to be able to fly. Humphrey" takes the user into three different worlds. Starting with an easy horizontal flight over a desert or canyon landscape, a flight through canyons and between skyscrapers, and finally a flight in "evolving space", in which a cube-shaped room is slowly flown through.

What is the AEC? Together with artists, scientists, technologists, designers, developers, entrepreneurs and activists from all over the world, we address the central questions of our future. Since 1979 the AEC focused on new technologies and how they change the way we live and work together.

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  • Art / Culture / Sience
  • Digital Experience
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An art association for the promotion of digital media art. Currently, Medienturm operates the Künstlerhaus in Graz in order to break new ground by repositioning the institution in the Austrian context.

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  • Medienturm

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  • Art / Culture / Sience
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Since decades the Mercedes-Benz S-Class is measure of automotive innovation and exalted driving culture. This exclusiveness shall also be expressed trough the presentation of the latest models. How can we impress our customers – not only with what we are presenting, but also with the way we are doing this? Together with The Mercedes Marketing-Department, we developed an exclusive installation, on which sophisticated Mercedes-fancier are able to closely experience the latest S-Class models. The realistic depiction of the automobile, virtually allows the prospective customer to take a seat in the new vehicle. Color, seat cover and many other features can be changed in one second – the customer playfully creates his own model regarding his wishes and preferences.

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  • System integrator: dav-it
  • Software: Autodesk Showcase
  • Hardware: edddison / MRI

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  • Digital Experience
  • Exhibition / Event
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First generation Virtual Reality installations. Poor visual quality, heavy big computers, clumsy VR HMD, expensive technology - but already fascinating. Our first VR (Virtual Reality) Installation for the Ars Electronica Center.

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  • Ars Electronica Center

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  • Art / Culture / Sience
  • Digital Experience
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The event has a very large user area, there is an exceptionally generous space available. The goal is to provide this large space with strong accents and in no case to place small objects, these would appear too weak in this spatial situation and can not assert themselves.
We concentrate and position few, but all the more expressive objects, which can assert themselves in the existing situations.
The result is an exciting juxtaposition of the emptiness and size of the room with the presence of the objects.

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  • Ars Electronica Center

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  • Art / Culture / Sience
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Concept mobile exhibition Container: After being parked by the truck, the container unfolds and expands by means of elements that can be folded out to the side. visitors have two staircases at their disposal, one for entering and one for exiting the exhibition, thus enabling the exhibition to run smoothly. The outside of the folding elements are designed as a kind of information wall, they accommodate posters, writings, and monitors. The exhibition object meets the high design standards set for the project through the sophisticated mechanics, selected materials and additional elements.

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  • Cooperation with AEC
  • Dietmar Offenhuber
  • Gerda Palmetshofer

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  • Exhibition / Event
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Skiing, which emerged in Central Europe around 1890, found many followers, especially among the middle-class clientele. The sportsman Max Kleinoscheg from Graz and the innkeeper Toni Schruf from Mürzzuschlag decided around 1890, motivated by Fridtjof Nansen's ski expedition through Greenland, to introduce skiing in Austria. Schruf and Kleinoscheg, together with Walter Wenderich, climbed the 1782-meter-high Stuhleck on February 8, 1892, the first Alpine peak to be reached on skis. On 2.2. 1893 they organized the 1st international ski race in Central Europe.

We developed various interactive projects for the winter sports museum in Mürzzuschlag, the cradle of European skiing. In the museum, from a virtual bobsled ride to an avalanche descent, we have created several interactive installations.

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  • Various interactive projects

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  • Design / Architecture
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The IEM in Graz made a virtual reconstruction of the famous building Philips Pavilion at Expo 1958 and multimedia experience.

The pavilion was designed to house a multimedia spectacle that celebrated postwar technological progress by Architect Le Corbusier and Iannis Xenakis. The University used edddison to control of the acoustic reconstruction Poem Electronique by Edgard Varese in the Philipps Pavilion (Le Corbusier) at the World's Fair Brussels 1958.

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  • Art / Culture / Sience
  • Design / Architecture
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We had the task to develop a construction site design. The challenge was that it should be implemented during the construction phase and serve to inform the travelers.

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  • Design / Architecture
  • Exhibition / Event
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openX is an attempt to exemplarily present the activities of protagonists of current artistic work in and with networked systems by setting up a temporary open-space studio. openX a walkable network, is for its part an experiment in the development of forms of presentation for artistic fields of action and activity that open up in the process away from the object or event.

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  • Open X at the AEC Festival was a platform for many different kinds of net inspired projects.

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  • Art / Culture / Sience
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FEEI represents the interests of its members in Austria and thus makes a significant contribution to securing the business location. A mobile exhibition hall serves as a traveling exhibition on the topic of electronics. The exhibition is designed in such a way that the visitors feel part of the event. The building offers place for 300 persons, these distribute themselves after a show afterwards in the exhibition stations. The construction can be done on larger sites in a few days.

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  • Cooperation with AEC

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  • Exhibition / Event
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Sprout Pro by HP. Technology that revolutionizes interactivity. What is Sprout? Manipulate the physical and digital worlds in innovative ways with immersive technology that's built with a PC, hi-res cameras, Touch Mat and 2D and 3D scanning capabilities.

edddison on Sprout Pro by HP gets customers, designers and managers to stop being spectators and start communicating interactively with virtual 3D models. Users can walk through a planned house or take a seat in a futuristic car model. Virtual navigation in 3D models were never so easy than now.

We are development and marketing partner of HP and we brought edddison on the Sprout computer.

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  • Development
  • Digital Experience
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All the world's eyes be on the only city between Occident and Orient? Will Istanbul host the 2020 Olympic Games? We don't know. But one thing is sure. Our technology will help it to better communicate the huge building projects and make its case for this massive undertaking.

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  • Digital Experience
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Management suitable - Bring design decisions to the management.

Daimler is using edddison that allows the management to view, understand and decide the newest car design. The design department of Daimler in Sindelfingen uses the interactive technology for internal meetings, when they are presenting new vehicle concepts to the managing board. The edddison table, on which a small vehicle-model, figures and sample cards are arranged, is located in front of a Powerwall, on which a fully developed, true in detail vehicle-draft 1:1 is displayed. The management board can take matters into their own hands: By moving the figures and the vehicle-model on the table they can roundly examine the visualized vehicle on the Powerwall. With the prepared sample-cards design and equipment options can be tried and visualized in a twinkling of an eye. Thus the decision-making process is considerably accelerated.

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  • System integrator: dav-it
  • Software: Autodesk Showcase
  • Hardware: edddison mixed reality setup (MRI)

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  • Design / Architecture
  • Development
  • Digital Experience
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We presented at prestigious exhibitions and conferences worldwide. Events like Autodesk University, TED, Cebit, Siggraph, RTT conference, ISE, Infocom, Motor-shows in Geneva and Paris.

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  • Own interest

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  • edddison

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  • Design / Architecture
  • Digital Experience
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The system helps to design the exhibition digitally in 3D before it is real. Curators, assistants and technicians – just everybody in the museum can use it. Prepare your work for yourself and discuss and share it with colleagues. Work together in groups, present and explore the newest design through the eyes of visitors. Move through the exhibition like in a computer game. No IT background required!

Credits

  • Prototype tool for inactive exhibition planing
  • Software: Unity3D, edddison
  • Hardware: edddison mixed reality setup

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  • Art / Culture / Sience
  • Development
  • Digital Experience
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After developing the first edddison prototypes a question arises: how do we call attention to our brilliant invention around the world? The presentation at the worldwide leading conference and fair for computer graphics and interaction techniques, the Siggraph, was an excellent platform to introduce our development to an interested audience of professionals and potential customers. For example, we welcomed Professor Hiroshi Ishii (Director of the MIT Media Laboratory), Jeff Han, Jeff Kowalski (CTO of Autodesk) and many other prominent experts.

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  • Exhibiting at Emerging Technologies
  • edddison mixed reality setup (MRI)

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  • Art / Culture / Sience
  • Development
  • Digital Experience
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The fascination of Mercedes-Benz derives from the fusion of technical innovations with ageless elegant design. The brand with the star is in a consequent way involved in international fashion events around the world, thus also as title sponsor in the Fashion Week Berlin. Our presentation at the Fashion Week Berlin ought to be accordingly fashionable.

With edddison the Mercedes-Benz show became the "dressing room" for their latest Mercedes models. Fast as lightning are the shown limousines able to magically change their "dress" or functions. The visitors of the showroom, full of relish and creativity, exercised themselves in designing the latest Mercedes-Benz models.

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  • System integrator: dav-it
  • Software: Autodesk Showcase
  • Hardware: edddison mixed reality setup (MRI)

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  • Digital Experience
  • Exhibition / Event
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The marketing team of Magna Steyr Fahrzeugtechnik and Magna Powertrain in Graz and Detroit uses the edddison technology at tech shows and trade fairs. All 3D data from Magna's Mila Alpin 2008, Mila EV 2009 and Mila EV 2011 prototypes were incorporated into a real-time environment. In this way, trade show visitors can explore the virtual vehicle themselves without any effort by simply moving figures and models around the table.

Interactive applications were developed to simplify a complex topic to make it accessible to a broad audience. All kinds of 3D-data, movies, pictures and powerpoint slides are included. They are designed to work with both the MRI (Mixed Reality Interface) or mouse. All applications run smoothly on commercially available laptops.

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  • Design: SPS Marketing
  • Project coordination, System Integrator: KOOP
  • Software: Autodesk Showcase
  • Hardware: Hardware: edddison mixed reality setup (MRI)

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  • Design / Architecture
  • Digital Experience
  • Exhibition / Event
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Walt Disney Studios has invited Thomas Kienzl to Los Angeles. The company presented edddison, a control device for real-time 3D visualization. They were one of 15 companies selected to do so at Siggraph in Boston. edddison is a mixed reality input device that allows users to virtually move through a 3D model. Any objects, such as models of buildings or vehicles, are displayed on the plate and digitally linked. The user can then move through the models using control elements. The user can actively influence the sequences and stay in the rooms at will.

"The idea behind this was to link the virtual world with our familiar ways of seeing things," says Thomas Kienzl. According to Kienzl, a "longing for haptic experiences" is developing again among people today. "The system starts where the human being with all his senses comes first and the computer works in the background," says Kienzl. The system works without buttons, keys or additional functions. Instead of a mouse, the program is controlled with simple, individual figures.

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  • Digital Experience
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The realtime 3D Application shows a "simulation" of the "pro active coupling" developed by Magna Powertrain. The coupling equates different coefficients of road friction and surfaces like asphalt, ballast, cornering and gradients. The torque distribution in different driving situations like uphill, cornering and breaking is illustrated by arrows in the application. Longer arrow – higher torque , Shorter arrow – lower torque. To visualize these coupling attributes we build this setup together with KOOP and Stage Partner. The arrows in the application corresponds with the LED stripes in the real model and show how the coupling works. In addition motors are driving the real wheels simultaneously to the movements in the realtime 3D application.

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  • Digital Experience
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FOOL'S card reading gnomes

Most screen workers place small figurines, photos and other personal items on their monitors. Kitsch exist parallel to the electronic world, seemingly without function they give identity to our work environment. They are a phenomenon and a fixed component of the new media, appearing everywhere in this context.

In the Ars Electronica Center, they are creatures that swarm out and settle in specific places. They possess the ability to change their original form, to look for a place and to adapt themselves to the respective positioning. They are recognizable as a community despite their different surfaces and shapes. We believe that the Fools also want to work - as card gnomes they greet the visitor.

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  • Cooperation with Armin Lixl

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  • Design / Architecture
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“Showroom 2.0”. This interactive multimedia-terminal, whose core is an edddison MRI. The setup was developed as future Car-Configurator for T-systems.

The car configurator is based on edddison to interact with the realtime 3D application.

Clients

  • T Systems

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  • In cooperation with people interactive
  • Software: Quest3D
  • Hardware: edddison mixed reality setup (MRI)

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  • Development
  • Digital Experience
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The „Semmering Tunnel“ is one of the most important infrastructure-major-projects in the heart of Europe. The twin-tube railway tunnel is a sustainable investment in the railway-infrastructure for Austria and serves as protection of the business location. How can this weighty project and its complex requirements be portrayed in an understandable and descriptive way? By means of a several presentation technologies succeeds in presenting this comprehensive undertaking to the broad public. Easy to understand, the viewer learns about details concerning planning and realization of the project and marvels at the development from a building yard to the completed tunnel.

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  • Software: Unity3D, Unreal, edddison
  • Hardware: edddison mixed reality setup and Touchscreen

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  • Digital Experience
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Work is an integral part of our lives. Our professional life is changing rapidly. Currently new job profiles are generated. But what is exactly causing this change? In which way has the working world changed in the last decades? What are the career aspirations of children today? And do they have a realistic conception of their dream job?

In the exhibition IN ARBEIT the Vienna Technical Museum gets to the bottom of these questions. In form of an interactive expedition for the whole family, the essential influences and changes of professional and working life are made accessible in a fascinating way to the visitors of the museum. In an extensive hands-on-exhibition on an area of 500 m2 for children, the young visitors can make a thrilling expedition into the adult world. The edddison table is playing a fundamental role at this. As an interactive station of the exhibition, it vividly gives the young visitors insight into the environment of today's working life. Real objects of the children's world are digitally being transferred into a virtual adult world. If the child for example grabs a pen, a computer will appear in the virtual office. The handling is as easy as a wink and thus also instantly possible for unpracticed users.

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  • Interactive installation
  • Software: edddison
  • Hardware: edddison mixed reality setup (MRI)

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  • Development
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A computer is filmed from the inside and outside with two webcams; the images are transmitted to the Internet. From a website, the computer to be foamed out gets pictures of its own destruction and shows them while it is still functional." So much for the "experimental arrangement" by Thomas Kienzl. Analogous to the 2003 reinterpretation of Rudolf Schwarzkogler's action "musikalische komödie für 's fernsehen (farbfernsehen)", G.R.A.M. reinterprets Thomas Kienzl's piece. The destruction of a computer by PU-foam is connected by G.R.A.M. with the -via Internet- published videos about hostage-takings by Islamist religious warriors. The action takes place in virtual, public space: a man-machine staging as an endless loop; a triangular relationship between perpetrator, victim and consumer. This is the only way modern terror works.

The work "Allhamduleilah " appears in the form of an artist video in EDITION Medienturm (release 05).

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  • Realized by G.R.A.M. after a play by Thomas Kienzl

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  • Art / Culture / Sience
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Semester work: „red hook - timber in the city“ realized with Autodesk Maya and edddison projection table.

The basic idea of the studio: red hook was to bring together CAD technologies, the MRI projection table and an architectural scale model (on a very big scale) on the technical side and to do some high-rise, parametric, sustainable design on the architectural side. To achieve this, we worked with 13 students on the students' competition, “Timber in the city”

Digital Design means to augment virtual and physical, analog and digital objects seamlessly. The studio was an attempt to work with digital technologies on an analog scale model, to present designs using only projection and to keep the whole design task in one cloud space.

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  • Design / Architecture
  • Digital Experience
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Most of us have already broadly studied the anatomy of the human body at school. In this connection we think of uninspiring and unspectacular pictures. However, there is hardly anything more thrilling than the human body and its functions. With its fourth exhibition “The human being”, the Science Center in Graz make this accessible to a broad audience. The exhibition gives the visitor the opportunity to make a virtual journey through the human body. The interactive 3D-solution addresses several sensory levels of the user with optic, acoustic and haptic signals and invites them to interactively explore the human body.

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  • Haus der Wissenschaft

Credits

  • Software: Unity3D
  • Hardware: edddison mixed reality setup (MRI)

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  • Digital Experience
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The Ars Electronica Center's contribution to IST 98 (information society technologies) was the realization of the Cyber Café "B4 Blue Box Coffee House" with live feed from the Blue Box Bar, with surf stations and projection screen. A web cam fed images live from the Austria Center Vienna to the internet.

Clients

  • multimedia business austria

Credits

  • Cooperation with AEC

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  • Exhibition / Event