V4Design successfully organized MADVR 2018

V4Design successfully organized MADVR 2018, the 1st International Workshop on Multimedia analysis for Architecture, Design and Virtual Reality games, in parallel with the International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR) on October 16th, 2018, in Munich, Germany. 

Several participants joined the morning lectures that included oral sessions on “3D reconstruction and multimedia analysis for architecture and VR design” and “Applications for architecture, art and video game design”. A panel discussion took place with Roberto de Lima, Eleftherios Anastasovitis, Alejandro Martin and Konstantinos Avgerinakis on “The challenges of art and architecture in VR and AR”. The workshop closed with an industrial keynote talk by Jens Piesk, managing director of Nurogames GmbH, that discussed the “Revamping game development using 3D reconstruction”

The workshop was organized by: Konstantinos Avgerinakis(CERTH), Maarten Vergauwen(KUL), Leo Wanner(UPF), Francesco Bellotti(UoG) and Stefanos Vrochidis(CERTH)