VolumanXR on IEEE VR 2026

At IEEE VR 2026 in Daegu, South Korea, I had the honor of presenting our poster “𝗔 𝗦𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗼𝘀𝘁-𝗘𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗠𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶-𝗩𝗶𝗲𝘄 𝗖𝗮𝗽𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗦𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗵𝗼𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗗𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻”:

As part of our master’s project 𝗩𝗼𝗹𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗫𝗥 at Cologne University of Applied Sciences, we developed a full pipeline — from capture to display — for 𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘂𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗰 𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗼 𝗶𝗻 𝗫𝗥, focused on 𝗗𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻. A fundamental challenge in this field, however, is the accessibility of multi-view capture systems and publicly available datasets. This motivated us to 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗰𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗮 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺: one that is 𝗹𝗼𝘄-𝗰𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲, in order to improve access to this field for the research community.

And we delivered! Thanks to the outstanding work of Kai Altwicker and Dennis Amuser, we were able to demonstrate that a system can be assembled for approximately €𝟳,𝟱𝟬𝟬 — capable of producing photorealistic reconstructions using 𝟯𝗗 𝗚𝗮𝘂𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗦𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴. Feel free to replicate it and generate your own datasets!

Above all, it was a great joy and privilege to present our work at such a large and international conference. Thank you to everyone who stopped by and showed such genuine interest in our research — the exchange with you was truly valuable.

I am especially grateful to all those who made this milestone in my life possible:

My wife Mahour Nasr, whose love and support always flows into my work.

My supervisor Arnulph Fuhrmann who — despite my own self-doubts — always sees my strengths.

My colleagues David Mertens and Kristoffer Waldow, without whom South Korea would have been only half the fun.

And of course all other co-authors: Matthias Bullert, Alisa Rüge, and David Martin Karg.

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