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On 1 January 1999 InterMedia-Aalborg was established at Aalborg University.
Intermedia-Aalborg was a centre for research, development, and training/education
in interactive multimedia.
InterMedia-Aalborg and VR-Center Nord originated from professor Erik
Granum's and professor Lars Qvortrup's ideas about an interdisciplinary
centre with representatives from both the Faculty of Humanities and
the Faculty of Engineering and Science working together. Focus would
be on Virtual Reality as a technology and as a medium.
InterMedia-Aalborg and VR-Center Nord, Niels Jernes Vej 14, 9220 Aalborg
Ø. were opened by HRH the Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark
on Saturday 21 August 1999.
The building holds both InterMedia-Aalborg and VR-Center Nord. NOVI's
Ejendomsfond built it. The centres have approx. 4,500 square meters
on three levels.
Before the actual opening of the centres basic research had already
begun. Professor Lars Qvortrup was the project leader of the Danish
national research project "Staging of Virtual Inhabited 3D Spaces".
The project has a total budget of 22 million Danish Kroner. Until
31 August 2000 professor Lars Qvortrup was the director of InterMedia-Aalborg.
In October 1998 the international multimedia project "Puppet"
started. "Puppet" is a basic research project under the
EU Commission. The project is developing virtual inhabited 3d spaces
as tools for preschool education with a budget of 10 million Danish
Kroner. "Puppet" is under the leadership of professor Erik
Granum, who is head of the largest expert group at InterMedia-Aalborg,
namely the Computer Vision and Media Technology group.
Moreover, there has been and still is a large number of collaborative
projects with relevant research departments at Aalborg University,
e.g. the IT-project "3D Visual Datamining". This particular
project combines expertise in databases, statistics, perception psychology,
and visualization in order to develop methods for visual research
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InterMedia-Aalborg and VR-Center Nord do not exist anymore in the
original form. It became very clear that the centre plan could not
be carried out.
VR-Center Nord was planned to establish itself as a research centre
for VR research and development on the highest possible level, both
nationally and internationally.
On 1 January 2001 the original InterMedia-Aalborg and VR-Centre Nord
was combined in one research centre for Virtual Reality and other
media - VR Media Lab.
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