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The big show
Second pilot shooting in Madrid

August 20, 2019September 2, 2019Entropy StudioNews

The new episode around the murder of Mrs. Armova’s has become the most incredible VR experience involving several users. The content development for this second pilot takes into account the introduction of pictures in real time, live content and the participation of several users. The process of content creation is one of the most wonderful [...]

VRTogether wins Best Demo Award at ACM MMSys2019

June 27, 2019August 20, 2019TNOEvents, News

VRTogether project partner TNO participated at the 10th ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (MMSys 2019), held from June 18 - 21, 2019 in Amherst, MA, USA. MMSys is the leading international forum for researchers to present and share their latest research findings in multimedia systems. While research about specific aspects of multimedia systems are regularly published [...]

Spanish students get immersed in the VRTogether experience

June 26, 2019August 20, 2019i2CATNews

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 [...]

I know you! : The importance of accurate self-representation in Virtual Reality

June 20, 2019August 20, 2019ArtanimNews

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 [...]

How we’re tackling low-latency challenges

June 6, 2019August 20, 2019Viaccess-OrcaNews

In order to make VR-Together a truly interactive experience, users need to be able to interact in real-time with the situations they are living, and with other users’ actions. However, given the required amount of data generated by our volumetric representation technology and bandwidth considerations, we need a solution to maintain a low-latency delivery of [...]

VRTogether wins Best Exhibition Award at NEM 2019

June 4, 2019September 2, 2019VRTogetherEvents, News

An international panel of experts gathered in Zagreb on 22-23 May to discuss the future of interactive technologies and new media. The 11th New European Media (NEM) Summit presented a packed programme of conferences, roundtables and an exhibition featuring the VRTogether project. VRTogether partner TNO showcased a demo that enabled visitors to try the photo-realistic social virtual reality [...]

MPEG Meeting #126: Virtual Reality has the wind in its sails

May 31, 2019August 20, 2019Motion SpellNews

VR-Together is an ambitious project aiming at pushing the boundaries of Social VR. This requires partners to keep up to date and participate in research and standardization activities. VR-Together project partner Motion Spell joined the last MPEG meeting (#126) in Geneva. Following VR and Immersive Media activities, Motion Spell put in light many developments regarding [...]

VR-Together at CERTH-ITI Open Day 2019

May 23, 2019August 20, 2019CERTHEvents, News

VR-Together was present at CERTH-ITI Open Day 2019, which was held on Friday 10/5 in Thessaloniki, Greece. The event is organized every year as part of the “EU in my region” campaign, and includes two sessions, a public and an industrial one, respectively. During the lifetime of the Open Day, several tour guides lead the [...]

The VR-Together Lab gets on track

April 29, 2019August 20, 2019i2CATNews

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 [...]

VR-Together at IEEE VR 2019 and ACM CHI 2019 International conferences

April 12, 2019August 20, 2019CWIEvents, News

VR-Together was present at IEEE VR 2019, the 26th IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality (March 23rd -27th, 2019) in Osaka, Japan and will be present at ACM CHI 2019, the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (May 4th-9th) in Glasgow, United Kingdom. The goal is to present the successful results on user experience [...]