diff --git a/Modules/IGTUI/Qmitk/QmitkVirtualTrackerWidget.cpp b/Modules/IGTUI/Qmitk/QmitkVirtualTrackerWidget.cpp
index 257b3fe1bc..4d382ebc84 100644
--- a/Modules/IGTUI/Qmitk/QmitkVirtualTrackerWidget.cpp
+++ b/Modules/IGTUI/Qmitk/QmitkVirtualTrackerWidget.cpp
@@ -1,94 +1,95 @@
 /*===================================================================
 
 The Medical Imaging Interaction Toolkit (MITK)
 
 Copyright (c) German Cancer Research Center,
 Division of Medical and Biological Informatics.
 All rights reserved.
 
 This software is distributed WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without
 even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR
 A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
 
 See LICENSE.txt or http://www.mitk.org for details.
 
 ===================================================================*/
 
 #include "QmitkVirtualTrackerWidget.h"
 
 #include "mitkVirtualTrackingDevice.h"
 
 const std::string QmitkVirtualTrackerWidget::VIEW_ID = "org.mitk.views.VirtualTrackerWidget";
 
 QmitkVirtualTrackerWidget::QmitkVirtualTrackerWidget(QWidget* parent, Qt::WindowFlags f)
   : QmitkAbstractTrackingDeviceWidget(parent, f)
   , m_Controls(nullptr)
 {
 }
 
 void QmitkVirtualTrackerWidget::Initialize()
 {
   InitializeSuperclassWidget();
   CreateQtPartControl(this);
   CreateConnections();
 }
 
 QmitkVirtualTrackerWidget::~QmitkVirtualTrackerWidget()
 {
   delete m_Controls;
 }
 
 void QmitkVirtualTrackerWidget::CreateQtPartControl(QWidget *parent)
 {
   if (!m_Controls)
   {
     // create GUI widgets
     m_Controls = new Ui::QmitkVirtualTrackerWidget;
     m_Controls->setupUi(parent);
   }
 }
 
 void QmitkVirtualTrackerWidget::CreateConnections()
 {
   if (m_Controls)
   {
     connect((QObject*)(m_Controls->m_EnableGaussianNoise), SIGNAL(clicked()), this, SLOT(EnableGaussianNoise()));
   }
 }
 
 mitk::TrackingDevice::Pointer QmitkVirtualTrackerWidget::GetTrackingDevice()
 {
   // Create the Virtual Tracking Device
   mitk::VirtualTrackingDevice::Pointer returnValue = mitk::VirtualTrackingDevice::New();
   if (m_Controls->m_EnableGaussianNoise->isChecked())
   {
     returnValue->EnableGaussianNoise();
     returnValue->SetParamsForGaussianNoise(m_Controls->m_MeanDistributionParam->value(), m_Controls->m_DeviationDistributionParam->value());
   }
+  returnValue->SetRefreshRate(m_Controls->m_refreshRate->value());
   return static_cast<mitk::TrackingDevice::Pointer>(returnValue); //static_cast necessary for compiling with Linux
 }
 
 void QmitkVirtualTrackerWidget::EnableGaussianNoise()
 {
   if (m_Controls->m_EnableGaussianNoise->isChecked())
   {
     m_Controls->m_MeanDistributionParam->setEnabled(true);
     m_Controls->m_DeviationDistributionParam->setEnabled(true);
   }
   else
   {
     m_Controls->m_MeanDistributionParam->setEnabled(false);
     m_Controls->m_DeviationDistributionParam->setEnabled(false);
   }
 }
 
 QmitkVirtualTrackerWidget* QmitkVirtualTrackerWidget::Clone(QWidget* parent) const
 {
   QmitkVirtualTrackerWidget* clonedWidget = new QmitkVirtualTrackerWidget(parent);
   clonedWidget->Initialize();
 
   clonedWidget->m_Controls->m_EnableGaussianNoise->setEnabled(m_Controls->m_EnableGaussianNoise->isEnabled());
   clonedWidget->m_Controls->m_MeanDistributionParam->setValue(m_Controls->m_MeanDistributionParam->value());
   clonedWidget->m_Controls->m_DeviationDistributionParam->setValue(m_Controls->m_DeviationDistributionParam->value());
   return clonedWidget;
 }
diff --git a/Modules/IGTUI/Qmitk/QmitkVirtualTrackerWidget.ui b/Modules/IGTUI/Qmitk/QmitkVirtualTrackerWidget.ui
index df33c99c8d..2e4dd1d6d7 100644
--- a/Modules/IGTUI/Qmitk/QmitkVirtualTrackerWidget.ui
+++ b/Modules/IGTUI/Qmitk/QmitkVirtualTrackerWidget.ui
@@ -1,121 +1,155 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <ui version="4.0">
  <class>QmitkVirtualTrackerWidget</class>
  <widget class="QWidget" name="QmitkVirtualTrackerWidget">
   <property name="geometry">
    <rect>
     <x>0</x>
     <y>0</y>
     <width>294</width>
-    <height>143</height>
+    <height>184</height>
    </rect>
   </property>
-  <layout class="QVBoxLayout" name="verticalLayout_22">
+  <layout class="QVBoxLayout" name="verticalLayout_2">
    <item>
     <widget class="QLabel" name="Optitrack_label_2">
      <property name="sizePolicy">
       <sizepolicy hsizetype="Preferred" vsizetype="Preferred">
        <horstretch>0</horstretch>
        <verstretch>0</verstretch>
       </sizepolicy>
      </property>
      <property name="text">
       <string>&lt;!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC &quot;-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN&quot; &quot;http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd&quot;&gt;
 &lt;html&gt;&lt;head&gt;&lt;meta name=&quot;qrichtext&quot; content=&quot;1&quot; /&gt;&lt;style type=&quot;text/css&quot;&gt;
 p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }
 &lt;/style&gt;&lt;/head&gt;&lt;body style=&quot; font-family:'MS Shell Dlg 2'; font-size:8pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;&quot;&gt;
 &lt;p style=&quot; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot; text-decoration: underline;&quot;&gt;Virtual Tracker&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/body&gt;&lt;/html&gt;</string>
      </property>
     </widget>
    </item>
+   <item>
+    <layout class="QHBoxLayout" name="horizontalLayout">
+     <item>
+      <widget class="QLabel" name="label">
+       <property name="text">
+        <string>Update Rate / Speed [ms]</string>
+       </property>
+      </widget>
+     </item>
+     <item>
+      <spacer name="horizontalSpacer">
+       <property name="orientation">
+        <enum>Qt::Horizontal</enum>
+       </property>
+       <property name="sizeHint" stdset="0">
+        <size>
+         <width>40</width>
+         <height>20</height>
+        </size>
+       </property>
+      </spacer>
+     </item>
+     <item>
+      <widget class="QSpinBox" name="m_refreshRate">
+       <property name="maximum">
+        <number>999</number>
+       </property>
+       <property name="value">
+        <number>100</number>
+       </property>
+      </widget>
+     </item>
+    </layout>
+   </item>
    <item>
     <layout class="QVBoxLayout" name="verticalLayout">
      <item>
       <widget class="QCheckBox" name="m_EnableGaussianNoise">
        <property name="text">
         <string>Simulate Jitter</string>
        </property>
       </widget>
      </item>
      <item>
       <layout class="QHBoxLayout" name="horizontalLayout_20">
        <item>
         <widget class="QLabel" name="label_3">
          <property name="text">
           <string>Mean Distribution Parameter</string>
          </property>
         </widget>
        </item>
        <item>
         <spacer name="horizontalSpacer_14">
          <property name="orientation">
           <enum>Qt::Horizontal</enum>
          </property>
          <property name="sizeHint" stdset="0">
           <size>
            <width>40</width>
            <height>20</height>
           </size>
          </property>
         </spacer>
        </item>
        <item>
         <widget class="QDoubleSpinBox" name="m_MeanDistributionParam">
          <property name="enabled">
           <bool>false</bool>
          </property>
         </widget>
        </item>
       </layout>
      </item>
      <item>
       <layout class="QHBoxLayout" name="horizontalLayout_21">
        <item>
         <widget class="QLabel" name="label_4">
          <property name="text">
           <string>Deviation Distribution Parameter</string>
          </property>
         </widget>
        </item>
        <item>
         <spacer name="horizontalSpacer_15">
          <property name="orientation">
           <enum>Qt::Horizontal</enum>
          </property>
          <property name="sizeHint" stdset="0">
           <size>
            <width>40</width>
            <height>20</height>
           </size>
          </property>
         </spacer>
        </item>
        <item>
         <widget class="QDoubleSpinBox" name="m_DeviationDistributionParam">
          <property name="enabled">
           <bool>false</bool>
          </property>
         </widget>
        </item>
       </layout>
      </item>
      <item>
       <spacer name="verticalSpacer">
        <property name="orientation">
         <enum>Qt::Vertical</enum>
        </property>
        <property name="sizeHint" stdset="0">
         <size>
          <width>20</width>
          <height>40</height>
         </size>
        </property>
       </spacer>
      </item>
     </layout>
    </item>
   </layout>
  </widget>
  <resources/>
  <connections/>
 </ui>