The main purpose of the Science for Life project is to popularize the research profession and introduce it to the general public, esp. the youth. Through various activities, the project raises awareness of the important role of researchers, science and its impact on all areas of human activity. At the same time, the project informs of various European and national funding programmes and other activities aimed at researchers’ career development, research work, equipment and attractive working conditions.

Researchers from UP FAMNIT have developed an Augmenter Reality application for the cross-media documentary titled "Reinventing the Wheel". The documentary has been presented this weekend at the Festival of Slovenian Film in Portorož. 

HICUP laboratory is part of the DIST department at FAMNIT. This video contains a presentation of student projects and projects made in cooperation with foreign universities and other institutions.

"Reality has never been so unreal as it is today. The technology of virtual and augmented reality is relentlessly changing our everyday lives."

"Slowly, but steadily is technology of virtual and augmenter reality penetrating our daily life. While virtual reality presents a complete leap into the digital world, augmented reality tries to merge digital world  with physical one."

Some images from Informativa 2016. Deprtment DIST from UP FAMNIT has been showing our virtual and augmented reality prototypes, 3D scanners and organised a lottery for 15 Google Cardboards.

For press release purposes, we asked computer science students for their statements about study, working on projects and competitions organized or attended by the faculty. We selected three […]

We are proud to annonce that our professor, researcher and the head of DIST department prof. dr. Tomaš Pisanski received the prestigious Zois Award for outstanding achievements in […]

DIST researchers collaborated in building a mobile augmented reality advertising campaign for a documentary Tatjana in Motherland. The AR campaign shows a trailer on poster and lets the […]

The interview is available in Slovene at this link Computer / Machine Translation The first initiatives for machine translation have emerged during the Cold War, when the Americans […]