Past Projects

From 2017 to 2023, our topics revolved around the Microsoft HoloLens^©. The students designed and developed applications for geospatial real world tasks that incorporate Gamification elements. The goal was to transform physical, geographical items into three-dimensional, interactive, and holographic objects.

The outcome of these projects can be experienced as immersive applications. To tackle the problems, users need their gestures and voices to place, move, create and delete virtual geographical features on and around real world objects.

In 2015 and 2016, Open Data was at the center of our efforts. As more and more public agencies and private companies start to make data extracts available for use in research and industry, a wealth of interesting new concepts and applications start to appear.

Developing geogames, informative applications and fitness and health apps, the students of the GIS lab became acquainted with searching and processing Open Data in various formats, and transforming it into useful applications and products.

Hover over the projects to get more information.

2023

"Phantom AR Glass" is a hololens-based application in which the player explores the dungeon and finds out the guardians have stolen the chicken from Linebeck and starts collecting them. The game ends when the player gets out of the dungeon with all the lost chicken that his pirate friend had lost now collected.

Phantom AR Glass

"mARio pARty" is a hololens-based application that unfolds across three distinct levels on a single floor of the HIL building at ETH Hönggerberg campus. Each level is crafted with its own thematic elements, presenting players with a unique combination of fields and challenges. To enhance the player's interaction with the game environment, a physical map augmented with digital information serves as a navigational guide between different levels.

mARio pARty

"HoloGeomatics" is a hololens-based application that focuses on geomatics and aims to provide users with an engaging and educational experience while learning about various aspects of the field. This is achieved by incorporating three minigames to seamlessly integrate learning and entertainment, making the discovery of geomatics and the DBAUG geomatics institutes enjoyable.

HoloGeomatics

2022

FoodSaver is a hololens-based application that helps raise awareness of the problem and supports consumers in using up food instead of throwing it away. The functionality of the app includes the possibility to store and keep track of groceries, the recommendation of recipes and display of instructions and a tips & tricks section for educational purposes.

FoodSaver

"Green Your Rooftop" is a hololens-based application that helps users in Switzerland check the appearance of solar panels according to their installation plans, as well as the estimated annual CO2 and money savings from the new solar systems.

Green Your Rooftop

2021

HoloSign is a hololens-based application that helps designers design signage more efficiently and effectively. HoloSign supports on-site signage interaction and customization, which enable designers to efficiently modify and check prototypes before final production. In addition, HoloSign provides measurement and mapping functions so that designers can effectively obtain the precise placement location of the signage in the environment.

HoloSign

2020

The old classic game Tetris is now available in 3D! Bringing the game in the three dimensional space will give it a twist and an extra challenge. 3Detris implements complete gaming logic for an immersive MR gaming experience, where you can also change the difficulties and compete with your friends.

3Detris

HoloInspect is designed to be a complementary extension of Building Information Model (BIM) with MR features and help BIM users improve their working experience and efficiency. For BIM experts, BIM with MR could be an effective tool to better check and present their ideas. For common users, the application provides them an easier access to BIM system and contributes to a better understanding of professional designs.

HoloInspect

HoloSAR is an educational synthetic aperture radar (SAR) simulation software for the Microsoft Hololens 1. The aim of this software is to give students and researchers the possibility to get a better idea of how a SAR acquisition is made and which parameters are influencing the image.

HoloSar

Mixed Reality Museum Guide offers users immersive experience of visiting museums. For current development, it mainly builds appealing MR environment for users to locate details on one object. Additionally, it displays virtual paintings which are impossible to reach in reality to give users a visual personal comparison instead of pale audio story telling.

Mixed Reality Museum Guide

2019

Project LELANTOS is a collaborative mixed reality adaptation of the famous board game Scotland Yard. In LELANTOS the users takes either the role of a detective or Mr. X who has to flee from his adversaries in a virtual city of Zürich. Besides using the the transportation network of Zürich also special points of interest can be explored.

Lelantos

EscapeHIT is an mixed reality version of an escape game, where players have to solve puzzles and quizzes to escape of the ETH building. The combination of real and virtual objects pose interesting challenges at the players who have to work as a team to succeed.

EscapeHIT

Ever wondered what that dish looks like that you found on the menue of that exotic restaurant. AugFood is an mixed reality experience which provides accurate virtual representations of the served dishes together with additional information such as price, calories and special diets. Now you can order dishes based on how they look rather than how the spell.

AugFood

HoloPhysics is an immersive mixed reality experience aimed at educating Students about electric potentials. Electric fields are visualized in mixed reality to provide a tangible experience of an abstract physical concepts. Gamification aspects aim at supporting the learning process and the memorability.

HoloPhysics

2018

Urban planning is a highly creative and collaborative discipline. UrbanX is a mixed reality application allowing planners to modify a city model by adding and removing buildings. Statistics show relevant information about the city model and updates the changes in real time.

UrbanX (more information here)

SustAR is an immersive augmented reality experience aimed at educating children and adults about the effects of climate change by directly appealing to their senses in the ways typical educational methods cannot. The game floods the user's room and gives them the opportunity to answer questions about their lifestyle which affect the level of the surrounding water. During the process users are given facts about the questions they answer and how they pertain to climate change as well as other facts to be found in the world around them.

SustAR

WayR is an experimental public transit app for Hololens. The application shows you the departing trains at any station in Switzerland. We know that waiting is a pain, so besides timetable information the application also shows you videos or tweets. The timetable appears at the recognized markers, but you can also take the timetable with you to keep track of time. The app will warn you when your selected train leaves from the station.

WayR

2017

How can we assist construction and maintenance workers in their daily tasks? Augmented reality helps seeing through solid objects to prevent accidents, destructive interventions, and ultimately helps save human lives.

Mixed Underground Reality

Outdoor games often need a lot of equipment and can be difficult to set up. The holographic Amazing Labyrinth doesn't need any set up, and allows groups of four people to quickly play a round of Amazing Labyrinth^© anytime, anywhere.

The Amazing Labyrinth

Urban planning is a tough job, especially if new concepts have to be discussed and evaluated in groups. Brick World lets planners interact with a city model, and quickly change and insert new buildings and environmental objects.

Brick World

2016

Pokémon Go showed the world that geogames are cool, entertaining, and even foster healthy behavior. Züri Pioneer lets you capture buildings and streets in the typical Settlers©-like settings and fight for dominance in Zurich.

Züri Pioneer

Did you ever wonder what the history behind that certain monument next to the train station is? Living history helps tourists and locals discovering the truth behind historical monuments.

Living History

Velo Challenge shows you a wealth of interesting bike routes in and around Zurich. Don't know how to get there? It routes you to the starting point, and even makes sure you never get off track!

Velo Challenge

2015

With the recent efforts to become more bike-friendly, Zurich made a wealth of bike information publicly available. Turibike shows you rental places, bike shops, pumping stations, and much more.

Turibike