Fraunhofer FOKUS, FAME | FAME - Future Applications and Media

Contact Person

Dr.-Ing. Stephan Steglich

Director

Business Unit FAME

+49 30 3463-7373

Dr.-Ing. Stefan Arbanowski

Director

Business Unit FAME

+49 30 3463-7197

Intelligent Services and Applications – interactive, personalized, everywhere

The FOKUS Business Unit Future Applications and Media (FAME) hosts all the technical know-how needed for the realization of interactive media applications: services that can be converged on multiple media platforms, and personalizable services that enable interaction with a broad array of end devices. In all their work, the experts at FAME make consistent use of Web-based technologies. Moreover, they also play active roles in standardization committees (including ETSI, HbbTV, DASH-IF and W3C), support customers in the development of interoperable solutions, evaluate them and engineer showcases for visualization of their possible functionalities.

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New EU project on 5G started

News from Fri., August 02, 2019

Last week , Fraunhofer FOKUS hosted the 5G-VICTORI Kick-Off Meeting in Berlin. The large scale EU funded project aims at validating 5G networks with vertical user cases. The testbed infrastructure for the Berlin trials is provided by Fraunhofer FOKUS.

Project to digitize the craft successfully completed

News from Wed., July 10, 2019

Digitalization does not stop at crafting. The joint project “DigiHand“ showed how work in craft can look like in the future. Fraunhofer FOKUS provided two out of eight learning stations for a traveling exhibition in which visitors learned more about “Smart Learning” and “Augmented Reality”.

SAND streaming solution receives DASH Award

News from Tue., July 02, 2019

At this year's ACM Multimedia Systems conference, a scientific paper on the Fraunhofer FOKUS SAND streaming solution was awarded the “Excellence in DASH Award”. FAMIUM SAND offers tools that enable content providers to track the streaming performance.

German public broadcaster ZDF offers “Fernsehgarten” Sunday variety as 360° livestream

News from Thu., May 09, 2019

This Sunday, viewers of the German music variety show “ZDF-Fernsehgarten” were able to experience the program as a 360° livestream through the HbbTV on-demand service of public broadcaster ZDF. This complementary experience was provided by using the Fraunhofer FOKUS “Cloud-based 360° Video Playout” technology. The unique and patented solution enables the viewing of high quality 360° videos on nearly any device.