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Photogrammetry: where innovation, art and technology go hand in hand

January 18, 2021January 18, 2021VRTogetherNews

What is photogrammetry The VRTogether project is characterized by the use of state of the art technology to offer high quality content and hyper realistic material. One of these technologies is named photogrammetry, and it has been used successfully for this project to digitally recreate specific environments. But first of all, what is photogrammetry? Photogrammetry [...]

World’s First Volumetric Video Conference (point clouds) over a Public 5G Network: a medical emergency example

November 9, 2020November 9, 2020VRTogetherEvents, News

VRTogether was present at VRDays Europe 2020, showcasing the world’s first live 3D video conference, using point clouds, over a commercial 5G network. VRTogether partners CWI and Sound presented a live demo to demonstrate the potential of the platform for emergency healthcare services. The demo showcased volumetric video conferencing (based on point clouds) between a [...]

Meet VRTogether at VRDays 2020!

November 3, 2020November 3, 2020VRTogetherEvents, News

VRTogether returns to VRDays, the main European event on immersive content, to showcase how technology can enrich our lives and enhance our human well-being. Travelling to another country, visiting the hospital, providing a safer work environment or enjoying an exhibition are some of the experiences enabled by VRTogether innovative Social VR system, which allows users [...]

Watch our webinar on the future of Virtual Reality

October 23, 2020October 23, 2020VRTogetherUncategorized

On 21 October 2020, we held a webinar session to discuss the future of Virtual Reality. The webinar was moderated by Patrick de Lange (Sound), with Pablo César (CWI), Sergi Fernandez (i2CAT), Kristian Emil Andreasen (Kanda), Bas Paumen (Amazon Web Services), and Jae Grant Maloney (KLM Royal Dutch Airlines) as panelists. The recording is now available [...]

Webinar | The Future of Virtual Reality. What place will it have in our future?

September 18, 2020September 21, 2020VRTogetherEvents

The killer app for the internet turned out to be the smart phone and it was already on our desk or even better in our pockets. What could, should and has to happen to Virtual Reality (VR) in order to have the same impact and change the way we work, learn, shop, play and travel. What are today’s most promising [...]

1st VRTogether Joint Business Clinic

June 19, 2020June 23, 2020VRTogetherNews

On 9th July 2020, VRTogether is organising a Joint Business Clinic in Barcelona. The workshop will focus on preparing the future exploitation of the VRTogether results and identifying potential roads for commercialisation. We are happy to welcome potential end-users of the VRTogether project results, external partners interested in the VR market, business experts as well as project [...]

VRTogether wins twice at ACM MMSys’20: Best Demo and Best Workshop Awards

June 12, 2020October 5, 2020VRTogetherNews

VRTogether was honoured twice yesterday at the 11th ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (ACM MMSys'20), held virtually on June 8-11. The work carried out by our research team was recognised with the Best Demo and Industry Paper Award and the Best Workshop Paper Award. On Tuesday 9 June, Jack Jensen (CWI) presented the demo 'A pipeline [...]

VRTogether at Stereopsia (World Immersion Forum)

December 11, 2019December 11, 2019VRTogetherEvents

For the eleventh consecutive year, Stereopsia will take place in Belgium (Brussels) on 11-13 December in SQUARE & BOZAR. Also known as “World Immersion Forum”, Stereopsia brings together the world’s greatest professionals in the field of immersive technologies and content: Virtual and Mixed Reality, 3D Cinema, 3D Sound, Artificial Intelligence … This event has been [...]

VRTogether at IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality (AIVR)

December 9, 2019December 9, 2019VRTogetherEvents

VRTogether will be present at the second edition of the IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality, which will take place in San Diego (USA). On Tuesday, 10 December, CWI researcher Dr. Pablo Cesar will give a keynote on "Using Volumetric Video for Remote Communication and Collaboration: development and evaluation of a social VR [...]

VR Days Europe 2019: VRTogether demonstrates photo-realistic social VR experiences

November 8, 2019November 13, 2019VRTogetherEvents, News

VRTogether will be present at VR Days Europe 2019, the leading European conference and exhibition on Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality content, creativity and innovation. The event takes place in Amsterdam from the 13th until the 15th of November and is attended by key players in the field of VR, such as Google, Microsoft and [...]