Eva Umlauf – her testimony

Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz-Institute (HHI) and Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich have collaborated to develop a VR experience centred around the story of Dr. Eva Umlauf, which is considered as one of the youngest survivors of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. With the technology of the volumetric video, whose basic technology “3D Human Body Reconstruction” was developed by researchers at Fraunhofer HHI, the memories of the Holocaust survivor Eva Umlauf were recorded for future generations. Eva Umlauf was captured in the volumetric studio with the help of 32 cameras. A lifelike three-dimensional image of Eva Umlauf is then calculated from the video information using computer vision methods and can be directly integrated into a virtual world. This “walk-in film” illustrates a contemporary document in an unprecedented way. The aim is to convey the topic as a virtual reality (VR) experience, especially to younger generations, to whom the events of National Socialism seem far away.

https://xr4human.eu/experience/478/