Dwerft – Potsdam’s Research Alliance
Dwerft: have you ever heard this term before? Dwerft is the name of a recently launched research project in Potsdam-Babelsberg. Dwerft doesn’t come from dwarf. That would be completely inappropriate. Rather, dwerft is a so-called portmanteau word from “digital” and “shipyard”. Thus, Dwerft is operating digital boat building in the figurative sense. Nine million Euros […]
Virtual Reality ready for take-off: In conversation with professor Dr. Marius Swoboda, Rolls-Royce
Professor Dr. Marius Swoboda, Head of Design Systems Engineering at Rolls-Royce, talks about his work – The British company Rolls-Royce is developing the aircraft engines of the future in Dahlewitz: virtual reality has long since become reality in aviation. We spoke with Prof. Swoboda about 1:1 visualisation, engine health monitoring, safety requirements, and potholes.
Building virtual worlds made easy: Spotlight on our Start-up Lab Vragments
Stasi interrogation methods, subway escape, travelling along a motorway without a car: the Vragments team of journalists, developers, graphic artists and scientists expands our reality in virtual space. Everyone can use their Fader product to tell their own story in a virtual and simple way without any complex technology – with text, sound, images, video […]
Bringing media competence to schools: visionYOU does that
This is what happens when three students lock themselves away for a creative workshop in a remote student residence deep in the woods near Eberswalde: the first concept for the start-up visionYOU. The three founders – Madeleine Wolf, Teresa Kreis and Paul Lorenz – are now continuing to tinker away at their educational company in […]
Matchmaking cinema: The Cinuru App connects cinema and filmgoers
Cinema operators who can target their audiences? Film fans not getting frustrated about missed films? How to take customer loyalty seriously, reward it and go digital: the start-up Cinuru Research makes the customers part of the cinema. The five founders – Martina Berger, Jannis Funk, Tobias Lohse, Paulo Ruhrländer and Jean-David Herld – have developed […]
The construction site calls, Obob founders off: 1:0 for the future of trades
They live what they build. They have known each other for several years from media:net’s Catapult start-up programme. They are serial founders Kilian Eckle, Moritz Schroeder and Tim Loewel. The three came together over a pizza and beer in the MediaTechLab Lounge at Studio Five to recall how a misdialed number led to a business […]
