A network of cosplayers welcomed visitors to Hamburg’s latest games fair, the Gamevention on Saturday (November 23,2019). Characters from Marvel and Star Wars ming…
"Hamburg - good place for turning hobby into profession," says Tschentscher at opening
Art and fairy-tales galore, Christmas shows and experience-style events in Hamburg
The clocks went back on October 27, and the days became shorter. But there’s still plenty to do in Hamburg during the dark winter months. The Hamburger Kunsthalle, for instance, is hosting an exhib…
Entrepreneurial Initiative, Courage and Success – Philipp Westermeyer honoured as "Achiever". Other winners: Sympatient and Norbert Aust
Around 800 invited guests from business, politics and society gathered in the Fish Auction Hall in Hamburg-Altona on Monday evening, September …
Interactive "Märchenwelten" to open in HafenCity
Evil witches beware! The end is nigh and defeat is certain by the time the first visitors have ended their interactive tour of the new 3,000 square metre Märchenwelten, which opens Saturday (September 14,2019) in Baakenhafen. …
Conference to highlight global, local, technological, entrepreneurial and scientific dimensions
The NEXT19 digital conference underway from September 19-20, 2019 as part of Hamburg’s Reeperbahn Festival will bring around 1,5000 digital decision-makers, marketing executives, IT &a…
Hamburg News presents young entrepreneurs as "Hamburg meets ..." launches in VRHQ
Hamburg gained yet another event Wednesday (August 21, 2019) with the start of the new “'Hamburg meets …’” event series at the Virtual Reality Headquarters (VRHQ). Hamburg News is now goin…
Artificial intelligence paving the way to medical revolutions?
Hamburg News spoke to Petra Margaritoff, Professor of Medical Data Systems at the Life Sciences Faculty of the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, about the potential of artificial intelligence (AI), especially ma…
Interdisciplinary platform now in second year - SmartCity compass launches
Sebastian Saxe likes to think in terms of the “day after tomorrow” as simply “tomorrow” falls short of his needs. The Interface Society (ThIS), of which Saxe is CEO, is now aiming to make th…
Cognitive systems like IBM's "Watson", chatbots, avatars and AR gaining pace
“Yes, I’m definitely enthusiastic about AI,” said Dr. Wolfgang Hildesheim at an event in the Evangelische Akademie der Nordkirche in Hamburg in early April. However, such a reply from the head of IBM’s A…
'Sommer des Wissens' mit Zukunftswerkstatt, HiTech-Labor, Kulturpavillon und Gesundheitszentrum. Die Stadt wird zum Campus
Raus aus dem Labor, rein in die Stadt. Vor dem Hintergrund des 100-jährigen Bestehens der Universität Hamburg findet vom 20. bis 23. Juni 2019 erstmals der&n…
Hamburg’s Virtual Reality & Arts Festival promises brand new art experience
Anything is possible in a virtual world. Fantastical worlds and realistically programmed environments can be explored without heeding physical limits. Catastrophes or war scenarios can be experienced …
Speicherstadt attracting rising tourist numbers - visitors seek individual experience
For many visitors to Hamburg, the Elbphilharmonie is often the main drawcard. Yet there are many other tourist attractions within easy walking distance. Miniatur Wunderland Hamburg, which d…
Interactive Museum counting on mixed reality
The Discovery Dock museum opened Monday (May 13, 2019) near the Elbphilharmonie. The 300 square metre museum offers visitors a mixed reality, up-close experiences of the Port of Hamburg. During the 50-minute guided tour,…
Start-ups to bring online shops and web pages together
The Hamburg-based Yarviss start-up aims to turn online shops into virtual reality worlds using story shopping. Existing online shops are integrated into a special virtual portal and the user can navigate between dif…