Author: Artanim

The third year of our project is rapidly approaching its end. Time flies when you're having fun and all that, and we most definitely have not been sitting still. Besides overall platform improvements and other activities, we have been hard at work on our third year pilot, i.e. the projects we build on top of [...]

The third year of VRTogether is in full swing, and despite the recent pandemic scare our consortium is hard at work creating the technology and content for our third-year pilot. As we have described before, pilot 3 will involve an interactive scenario where users take on an active role trying to solve the mysterious murder [...]

Year 3 of VRTogether has started, which is the final year for the project. The first year saw our first pilot, a virtual experience surrounding the death of Elena Armova and the subsequent murder investigation. Two users were able to observe two police interrogations from behind a one way mirror. Taking on the role of [...]

At the heart of the VR Together project lies the objective to enable social VR experiences with strong feelings of immersion as well as co-presence. To achieve this strong social sense of sharing a space together, photorealistic real-time representations of users are used, rather than relying on abstract avatars as found in such offerings as [...]

With the rise of consumer VR and a wide range of VR headsets available, different means to produce and consume VR content are being used, such as 360 stereoscopic video and real time rendered 3D geometry. In this context, VR Together partners Artanim, Entropy and i2CAT are running an experiment to assess the quality of [...]