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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 [...]

The Volumetric Capturing (VolCap) system is a toolset designed to orchestrate the capturing, streaming and recording of the data acquired from a multi-sensor infrastructure. A number of processing units each manage and collect data from a single sensor using a headless application called Eye. A set of sensors is orchestrated by a centralized UI application, [...]

Pilots are checkpoints to evaluate the creative and technical challenges of the project, aiming at assessing the performance of the technological developments, validating and refining the defined evaluation methodology and assessing the appropriateness of the technology and created scenarios / content to provide truly realistic and interactive social VR experiences. CERTH successfully completed 2 full [...]

General testing considerations In every software development it is important to include testing rules in the process. These rules ensure quality and a continuous evolution over new integrated features. For a developer, testing regularly allows more confidence during new implementations - the more developers test their code, the more they will guarantee the quality of [...]

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 [...]

For more details, see previous post “Mentoring Students in Social VR” The VRTogether project conducts ground-breaking research on Social VR, which invites multiple users to share a virtual space and interact with each other’s virtual representation. Apart from the main research activities, this project mentors master’s students in this area, forming a new generation of [...]

Our story of murders, intrigues and betrayals comes to an end... The third chapter of Elena Armova's death has already been recorded and solves the most social and immersive murder seen so far. On the technical side, our consortium partners are achieving volumetric capture in real time to integrate five users, located in different parts [...]