The work on intuitive Virtual Production tools at Filmakademie Baden-Wurttemberg has focused on an open platform tied to existing film creation pipelines. The Virtual Production Editing Tools (VPET) started in a former project on Virtual Production funded by the European Union and are published and constantly updated on the open source software development platform Github. We introduce an intuitive workflow where Augmented Reality, inside-out tracking and real-time color keying can be applied on the fly to extend a real movie set with editable, virtual extensions in a collaborative setup.

A new device was developed and tested in a series of diving experiments investigating the physiological effects of immersion on military divers for long periods (8 h to 12 h). During these experiments, the body temperature (core and skin) and electrocardiogram (ECG) of the divers were recorded and monitored in real time. The system developed for this purpose comprised a modified VitalSense temperature monitoring device from Philips Respironics and a one-channel ECG housed in a pressure-proof case. Recorded data were transmitted wirelessly to a PC. The recording and visualisation software was developed under National Instruments LabWindows.

Over the last decades the process of filmmaking has been subject to constant virtualization. Empty green screen stages leave the entire on-set crew clueless as real props are often replaced with virtual elements in later stages of production. With the development of virtual production workflows, solutions that enable the decision-makers to explore the virtually augmented reality have been introduced. However, current environments are either proprietary or lack usability, particularly when used by filmmakers without a specialized knowledge of computer graphics and 3D software. As part of the EU funded project Dreamspace , we have developed VPET (Virtual Production Editing Tool), a holistic approach for established film pipelines that allow on-set light, asset and animation editing via an intuitive interface. VPET is a tablet-based on-set editing application that works within a real-time virtual production environment. It is designed to run on mobile and head mounted devices (HMD), and communicates through a network interface with Digital Content Creation (DCC) tools and other VPET clients. The tool also provides functionality to interact with digital assets during a film production and synchronises changes within the film pipeline. This work represents a novel approach to interact collaboratively with film assets in real-time by maintaining fundamental parts of production pipelines. Our vision is to establish an on-set situation comparable to the early days of filmmaking where all creative decisions were made directly on set. Additionally, this will contribute to the democratisation of virtual production.

Head up displays (HUD) are beneficial in diving situations when the diver uses both hands for an activity, e.g. photography, scientific work, operating a diver propulsion vehicle or during diver training. They remove the need to locate a submersible pressure gauge or remember to look at a personal dive computer. A new model of HUD, one that can easily be retrospectively fitted to a recreational diver’s regulator hose outside the mask lens, has been developed. A pilot study of 93 open circuit recreational dives was conducted over one week in Croatia, to assess the HUD-user interface. An electronic survey was developed and completed twice after 16 dives. Mean maximum depth was 23 m and mean total dive time 38 mins. 34 dives (37%) were made with the HUD and 59 made with traditional submersible pressure gauges. There was good test-retest agreement (kappa score=0.9) between repeated surveys. The HUD was relatively easy to attach and could be operated without the necessity of reading the user manual. The HUD has two potential mechanisms for preventing rapid ascent injuries. Firstly, displaying an ascent rate warning directly in the divers’ field of vision and, secondly, by reducing the likelihood of an out-of-gas situation.

In this work we describe the brokerage function between electric vehicle users searching for a charging spot and the charging stations providing the charging service. Matching supply and demand requires an interdisciplinary understanding of both the mobility of el ectric vehicle (EV) users and the load balancing mechanisms, at the charging station level as well as at low voltage grid level. As a result of a mobility study, we propose in this work a routing service for locating and reserving charging spots. Further, we extend the search for charging stations from a destination-neighborhood to public transportation node neighborhood in a multimodal route (using driving, walking, public transport) and evaluate the number and quality of solutions. Further contributions address the load balancing functionality at the charging station and the low voltage grid level. In the proposed decentralized architecture cha rging stations control the charging of individual vehicles. We argue for the introduction of a bidirectional i nterface between the charging station and the DSO, and show how available power for charging stations can be dynamically calculated.

The conductance of Pb wires grown by self-assembly on Si(557) has been studied in detail as a function of coverage and of the facet structure. Only for 1.31 ML, corresponding to one physical monolayer on the terraces (steps not covered with Pb), and a perfectly ordered wire array along the [(11) over bar2] direction quasi-onedimensional (1D) transport along the [(11) over bar2] direction is found, corroborating the model of one-dimensional band filling in an adsorbate induced (223) facet structure. The transport results recently shown by Morikawa et al. [Phys. Rev. B 82, 045423 (2010)] can also reproduced by our group. In contrast to what was claimed by them, our results clearly show that either a too small coverage or structural imperfections of the surface are responsible for a metal-insulator transition around 140 K irrespective of the crystallographic direction. The variety of different transport scenarios found is caused by strong adsorbate-induced refacetting into an electronically stabilized (223) orientation, which differs from the macrosocopic orientation of the substrate. The crucial interplay between structure and filling factor explains the extremely small parameter window in which the 1D transport channel can be observed.