Univ.-Prof. Dr. Helmut Hlavacs

University of Vienna >> Faculty of Computer Science >> Entertainment Computing

Excellent student theses advised by me

2025

Evaluation of the Feasibility of Implementing Vulkan Video Extensions on CPUs (Bernhard Clemens Schrenk)

In this thesis, Mr. Schrenk implements the Vulkan Video API to be part of Mesa 3D running on CPU ony, no GPU involved. This can be an important fallback option for hardware restricted systems without GPU support, e.g., running medical applications, servers streaming display output, etc.

Master thesis of Bernhard Schrenk

AI-Driven Game Development with Gemini 2.5 Pro - Can Prompting Alone Lead to a Fully Playable Game? (Elena Popp)

In this thesis, Mrs. Popp creates a full video game using 585 prompts in Google Gemini 2.5 pro.

Bachelor thesis of Elena Popp