Blog

Final Review in Linz

September 2022

In a full day workshop the Consortium partners presented the results of the two year project ATLANTIS to the EU-Reviewers.

Diminished Reality: empty and refurnish rooms as if by magic

July 2022

Two years of research on Diminished Reality and Artificial Intelligence for indoor planning have produced exciting results.

Webinar Review: exciting insights from the panelists

June 2022

After the presentations the EU projects Atlantis and PrismArch, there were exciting insights from the panelists about the perspectives of XR for the future and about the challenges and surprises in the projects.

Webinar: XR for Architecture and Interior Design

June 2022

In architecture and interior design, technologies such #VR, #AR and #AI have the potential to transform planning processes. This webinar showcases the results of two recent research projects.

Atlantis' first "real" trade fair presence

May 2022

On May 5th 2022, the Atlantis project had its first real and official trade fair appearance at the e-commerce expo in Berlin.

User tests in Stockholm and Linz

April 2022

This time user tests took place in in Stockholm/Sweden and Linz/Austria. The focus was again on non-professional users.

First real-time meeting

March 2022

Since June 2020, the first real-time meeting between #Atlantis partners! We want more!

Ongoing User Tests

March 2022

Last week, user tests on the current status of the Atlantis project took place again in Stockholm.

All planned interviews could take place and we got again more insights into consumers' expectations.

Ethic advisory board meeting

March 2022

Ethics Advisory Board (EAB) meeting. With Hannes Robier, Usability and User Experience Expert and Prof. Eva-Lotta Sallnäs Pysander, Human Computer Interaction Expert.

Conducting user research to drive the design process.

January 2022

We asked Richard Whitehand, Senior Usability & UX Specialist at USABILITY PARTNERS (UP), to give us a short update on ATLANTIS from UP´s perspective.

User tests provide invaluable input to the Atlantis project.

January 2022

Usability Partners in Stockholm is the UX research partner in the ATLANTIS consortium and has been conducting a variety of user research studies for the project.

Diminished Reality has as much power as Augmented Reality.

Diminished Reality has as much power as Augmented Reality.

January 2022

Atlantis has the potential to radically change the way we design our living spaces. We asked Petros Drakoulis, research-assistant at CERTH, to give us a short update from CERTH‘s point of view. 

Augmented and Diminished Reality to optimise workflows

Augmented and Diminished Reality to optimise workflows

December 2021

Together with an international team, Roomle is working on the ATLANTIS research project to develop an innovative authoring tool. We asked project partner Albert Ortig, Roomle CEO, for a little update.

Diminishing Reality - before/after

Diminishing Reality - before/after

December 2021

Imagine being able to remove that bulky closet from the wall or to delete an entire bed from the room and make space for something new!

User Tests

Stakeholder Test: Finding out how professionals use Atlantis

October 2021

We are currently conducting interviews and user tests with professionals on our Atlantis research project.

User Tests

Happy Holidays and a nice summer!

August 2021

The Atlantis team wishes everybody Happy holidays and a nice summer!

User Tests

Usability Testing: A Tool to Improve the Atlantis App Design

5 July 2021

To make an app as user friendly as possible our designs are tested before we release it for mass use. What better way to do this than to conduct usability testing?

Startscreen Atlantis App

Sneak preview of the Atlantis app

29 June 2021

Here are our first drafts of the Atlantis app, which we share exclusively with you. Of course, these are only drafts, in the end the whole thing will probably look different in detail, but I think you'll get a pretty good impression of the direction we're thinking.

Plenary Meeting

3 days of Plenary Meeting

16 -18 June 2021

The Plenary Meeting is a three-days meeting of the project partners. Within these 3 days, all work packages are gone through, the time schedules and the next steps in the project will be discussed.

3 questions on ATLANTIS:

17 May 2021

Project partners giving insights: We asked the ATLANTIS project partners 3 questions about the ongoing research project to find out their background and motivation.

ATLANTIS at a glance

11 May 2021

The compact information about the ATLANTIS project is now available as a 2-pager. Go for it!

We are looking for participants!

16 April 2021

Be the first to get insights into the AR/DR research project Atlantis. We are looking for people from the furniture retail and interior design industry to participate in our user tests! Read more in the blog post:

What is Diminished Reality?

6 April 2021

Reality is what you make of it? Well - this doesn’t always mean adding some stuff. Wouldn’t you sometimes like to “photoshop” things out of your life? Then we are talking about Diminished Reality already.

Designing living spaces with AR and DR

23 March, 2021

Together with an international team, Roomle is working on the ATLANTIS research project to develop an innovative authoring tool. It will permanently change the way we design our living spaces. We asked project coordinator Georg Thallinger, from JOANNEUM RESEARCH, to give us a little update.

Stereopsia presentation is online

28 January, 2020

Did you miss the ATLANTIS presentation at Stereopsia 2020 - Virtual edition? No worries, you can now (re)watch it on Stereopsia Youtube Channel.

ATLANTIS video

11 December, 2020

With ATLANTIS, users can visually remove real objects in the scene with the help of the Diminished Reality technology. You can find out more about the project in the video.

ATLANTIS Info tube

25 November, 2020

We would like to share with you ATLANTIS info tube, where you can find technical results and details of the project.

Stereopsia event

30 October, 2020

ATLANTIS project will take part in the Stereopsia virtual event - a great a place of fantastic opportunities and relationships between XR professionals.