The MRLab serves toward the development and investigation of techniques, content and application in the area of Mixed Reality. Mixed Reality brings together conceptually integrative depictions of real and virtual worlds, in the entire spectrum from an extension of the real environment through individual objects or annotations (augmented reality) to a complete superimposition onto the real world through a simulation (virtual reality). The MRLab prepares technologies for 3D tracking as well as cameras and displays for immersive visualization, with an infrastructure that allows ideas and concepts to be developed, tested and examined in the mixed reality area.

The MRLab possess diverse tracking systems covering a variety of application fields: an optical tracking system with 6 ART tracking cameras, an Intersense 9000 Tracker as well as InertiaCube orientation tracker and an electromagnetic Polhemus Patriot tracking system. Various head-mounted displays from Virtual Research and eMagin are available, as are stereo-ready projectors. The MRLab possesses Point Grey Dragonfly and FireflyMV miniature cameras for recording real-time video, as well as powerful graphics PCs and corresponding 3D software.