Author: i2CAT

In VRTogether the users are holoported inside a three-dimensional scenario, and they can remotely participate in a social virtual experience. The technology used to represent them is called Volumetric Video, and thanks to the most advanced real time compression and transmission systems, it is possible to transmit, over the internet, this novel video representation. However, [...]

In VRTogether, three pilots have been planned to evaluate its creative and technological contributions towards the creation of truly realistic and interactive social VR experiences. After a successful pilot 1 in the first year of the project, the execution of pilot 2 started in November 2019 with a first round of tests at the i2CAT [...]

On 14th June, a group of media students from the L’H Play youth educational programme had the opportunity to get first-hand knowledge of VRTogether’s social virtual reality experience during a visit to i2CAT’s lab node in Barcelona. Located at i2CAT’s facilities within Citilab, a digital lab for citizen innovation, the lab node allows for the [...]

Call for VR users and professionals interested in testing photorealistic Social VR experiences With Social Virtual Reality emerging as a new medium where users can remotely experience immersive content with others, the achievement of a true feeling of ‘being there together’ has become a key goal. The VR-Together project is addressing this challenge by developing [...]

The VR-Together project is ready to take big steps forward in the year ahead. After a kick-starting pilot showing the main features of the project, we are currently working on a second trial which will further progress towards the objectives of VR-Together. Pilot 2 aims at improving the social virtual reality experience by focusing on [...]