Luca Fluri
Research Associate, Institute of Interactive Technologies, FHNW
Experience
2025 – now
Research Associate
FHNW, Institute for Interactive Technologies · Brugg-Windisch
- Co-lead of two courses, Extended Reality and 3D User Interface Design, running the practical lessons and the semester projects.
- Supervision of semester projects, bachelor's theses and interns.
- Conceived, planned and delivered an interactive information display for the institute.
- Ultrasonic segmentation pipeline for industry partners.
2021 – 2025
Research Assistant
FHNW, Institute for Interactive Technologies · Brugg-Windisch · part-time alongside the master's
- Built a web-based 3D light simulation from scratch on a texture-based reverse path tracing approach. Published and presented at IADIS Applied Computing 2024.
- Built an AR viewer and a collaborative VR platform for an existing solar panel design tool. Three papers followed, including a 2026 journal article.
Education
2021 – 2024
MSc Engineering, specialisation in Computer Science
FHNW · Brugg-Windisch
- Thesis: Hand-tracked 3D Data Selection of Point Clouds in XR. GPU-accelerated signed distance field selection in Unity for real-time interaction with large point clouds, with brushing, convex hull and shape-based techniques validated in a user study of 28 participants.
2020
Exchange semester
Reykjavik University · Reykjavik, Iceland
2018 – 2021
BSc Computer Science, specialisation in Design and Management
FHNW · Brugg-Windisch · international track
- Thesis: Space in 3D, an immersive analytics module for a Python-based visual analytics package, with the Seamless Astronomy Group at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
Publications
Hüsser, C., Fluri, L., & Cords, H. (2026). Immersive and Collaborative 3D Solar Panel Visualization Through XR. In IADIS International Journal on WWW/Internet (Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 112-125). ISSN: 1645-7641.
Fluri, L., & Cöltekin, A. (2025). 3D Selection through Hand Tracking in XR for Point Clouds Using Signed Distance Fields. In K. Helin, B. Schiavi, & E. Tsaknaki (Eds.), EuroXR 2025: Proceedings of the Application, Poster, and Demo Tracks of the 22nd EuroXR International Conference (VTT Technology No. 440). VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland.
Hüsser, C., Fluri, L., & Cords, H. (2025). Interactive 3D visualization and configuration of solar panel layouts in XR. In K. Helin, B. Schiavi, & E. Tsaknaki (Eds.), EuroXR 2025: Proceedings of the Application, Poster, and Demo Tracks of the 22nd EuroXR International Conference (VTT Technology No. 440). VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland.
Hüsser, C., Fluri, L., & Cords, H. (2025). An Extended Reality Approach to Interactive 3D Visualization and Configuration of Solar Panels. In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Applied Computing.
Fluri, L., Riedi, M., & Cords, H. (2024). Web-based light simulation and interactive configuration for lighting systems. In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Applied Computing.
Ambühl, A., Fluri, L., Zucker, C., Goodman, A., & Cöltekin, A. (2022). Effectiveness and perceived usefulness of a handheld AR cube for examining 3D spatial structures. In SpaceCHI Workshop at CHI 2022.
Teaching
2024 – now
Extended Reality (EXR)
FHNW · co-lead
- Practicals and project work, including the introduction to Unity.
2024 – now
3D User Interfaces & Experience Design (UIED)
FHNW
- Practicals and project work, including the introduction to Unity.
2020 – 2024
Earlier teaching
FHNW
- Guest lecture on extended reality in Media Computing, spring 2024.
- Tutor for Algorithms & Data Structures 1, 2020 to 2021.
Ten supervised bachelor's theses and pre-thesis projects are listed on Student Projects & Teaching.
Selected Projects
- 3D Selection XR Hand-tracked volumetric selection in point clouds, Unity and compute shaders.
- Light Simulation GPU path tracing for lighting design, in the browser.
- XR Solar Panels Collaborative AR and VR layout planning across two platforms.
- Stemma Browser-based GEDCOM viewer and editor, chart, force graph and 3D scene.
- E-Ink Display Battery-powered wall dashboard, ESP32, four months per charge.
Skills
- Languages
- Python, C#, C/C++, JavaScript, TypeScript, Dart
- XR
- Unity, OpenXR, WebXR, Meta Quest, hand and eye tracking, Vuforia
- Graphics
- OpenGL, WebGL, Three.js, shaders, path tracing, point clouds, signed distance fields
- ML & data
- PyTorch, scikit-learn, OpenCV, NumPy, Pandas
- Web, tools & hardware
- React, Vue, Node.js, Git, Docker, CI/CD, Arduino, ESP32, Raspberry Pi
- Spoken
- German (native), English (C1/C2), French (basic)