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January 18, 2021

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

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 [...]

December 21, 2020

The final release of the Volumetric Video Capturing system of CERTH and VRTogether is here!

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, [...]

December 11, 2020

Pre-Pilot Technology Test in CERTH premises

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 [...]

November 23, 2020

Why and how to automatize testing in Unity projects?

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 [...]

November 18, 2020

Creating an Interactive VR Experience with the VRTogether platform

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 [...]

November 9, 2020

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

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 [...]

November 6, 2020

HUMAN4D: Human-Centric Multimodal Dataset for Motions and Immersive Media created by VRTOGETHER’s consortium members CERTH, CWI, Artanim

HUMAN4D is a new multimodal human-centric 4D dataset containing a large corpus with more than 50K samples. By capturing 2 female and 2 male professional actors performing various full-body movements and expressions, HUMAN4D provides a diverse set of motions and poses encountered as part of single- and multi-person daily, physical and social activities (jumping, dancing, [...]

November 3, 2020

Meet VRTogether at VRDays 2020!

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 [...]

October 23, 2020

Watch our webinar on the future of Virtual Reality

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 [...]

September 18, 2020

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

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 [...]

September 15, 2020

Mentoring Students in Social VR (Part II)

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 [...]

September 3, 2020

The success of an immersive experience: the new narratives and the importance of the script

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 [...]

August 20, 2020

Towards a generic orchestrator: The VRTogether project experience
Part 3/3: API Detail

In the third and last of our series of articles on the VRTogether Orchestrator (you can read Part 1 and Part 2 if you missed them) we cover the details of its current API. In the following paragraphs, we will go into details of each categories of services: Authentication and logging The first step a [...]

July 30, 2020

VRTogether co-organized the “First International Workshop on Tools for Creating XR Media Experiences”, colocated with IEEE ICME 2020

In a joint effort with the EU H2020 ImAc and Hyper360 projects, VRTogether co-organized the “First International Workshop on Tools for Creating XR Media Experiences”, co-located with the IEEE ICME 2020 conference, that was planned to be originally held in London (6-10 July). Due to COVID-19, all tracks and side events of the conference were [...]

July 13, 2020

Towards a generic orchestrator: The VRTogether project experience
Part 2/3: technological choices

This is the second of a series of articles about the VRTogeter Orchestrator. Read Part 1 here. In terms of technologies the central Orchestrator component relies on the Node.js open-source platform where its integrated API is implemented in JavaScript. The protocol exchange benefits from the socket.io API, distributed under MIT licensing model, which enables real-time [...]

June 26, 2020

Improving the Holoportation with a cloud based solution!

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, [...]

June 23, 2020

Exploitation activities from VRTogether awarded at ACM IMX 2020

VRTogether project partner CWI participated in the 2020 ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences (ACM IMX 2020), held virtually from June 17-19, 2020. On the first day of the conference, CWI’s team presented the social VR clinic, one of the VRTogether exploitation activities targeting the healthcare domain. The demo is entitled “A Social VR [...]

June 19, 2020

1st VRTogether Joint Business Clinic

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 [...]

June 12, 2020

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

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 [...]

June 5, 2020

Towards a generic orchestrator: The VRTogether project experience
Part 1/3: overview

VRTogether is a world class consortium of research entities and companies looking at evaluating the “togetherness” in VR. The VRTogether project is focused on the real-time photo-realistic 3D capture and the integration of a live-avatar into complex scenarios allowing to share virtual experience together. Since the main goal of the VRTogether project is to share [...]

May 19, 2020

Social VR for remote scientific events? VRTogether co-organizes a CHI2020 Workshop on Social VR in Mozilla Hubs during COVID-19

Jie Li and Pablo Cesar, from the Distributed Interactive Systems group (DIS) at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), have successfully organized the ACM CHI2020 Social VR Workshop on a social VR platform called Mozilla Hubs. This workshop was co-organized together with David A. Shamma (FXPAL Laboratory), Vinoba Vinayagamoorthy (BBC R&D), Raz Schwartz (Facebook AR/VR), and [...]

April 30, 2020

New Kinect4Azure-based volumetric capture system for top quality user representation

Pilot 3 of VRTogether is closer and closer to its release! Volumetric Capture (publicly available on GitHub) has been released while more functionalities are coming soon. Higher quality of human users representations based on the ToF technology of the Kinect4Azure (K4A) is now available, leading to a top quality fully immersive experience. Point Cloud capture [...]

April 22, 2020

3D Character Creation for Interactive VR

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 [...]

March 30, 2020

Social VR: staying connected in the time of COVID-19

While more than a billion people are currently social distancing all over the world to stem the spread of the coronavirus, the Internet remains the only way for the majority of us to maintain a minimum of social connection. Whether it is to ask after our elders, to ensure educational continuity for our schooled children [...]

March 3, 2020

How The Irishman revolutionized VFX

The Irishman is a 2019 film directed and produced by Martin Scorsese. It received 10 nominations at the 92nd Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor and Best Visual Effects. Even though 1917 won the latter, The Irishman was awarded as Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature and Outstanding Compositing [...]

February 14, 2020

Pilot 2 in Barcelona: validating the technology and the experience!

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 [...]

January 15, 2020

How VR can improve athlete performance?

At first glance VR and top-level sports may seem antithetical. VR is practiced in a relatively small space with a relative freedom of movement whereas the high-level athlete needs the opposite to perform. In this article, we will show you, on the contrary, how VR can significantly help improve an athlete's performance. Improve your individual [...]

December 11, 2019

VRTogether at Stereopsia (World Immersion Forum)

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 [...]

December 9, 2019

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

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 [...]

December 4, 2019

Kinect4Azure for VRTogether Volumetric Capture

Since Microsoft announced their plans for the release of a new Kinect RGBD sensor, the entire technological community has been waiting patiently. It was unfortunate that the production of the previous Kinect v2 halted, as it was considered one of the best, with respect to the depth estimation quality, low-cost RGBD sensors. The continuation of […]

November 8, 2019

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

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 [...]

October 15, 2019

IBC 2019 report: VR still leads the innovation

The IBC (International Broadcasting Convention) taking place at Amsterdam in September is still a major milestone for any company in the video technological industry and also for individual who wants to take part in the future of media. This show still appears to be the world's most influential media & technology show. This year (2019), [...]

October 10, 2019

VRTogether goes interactive

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 [...]

September 9, 2019

Mentoring Students in Social VR

The VRTogether project conducts ground-breaking research on Social VR. In addition, the project mentors master’s students in this area, forming a new generation of graduates that can, in the future, reshape the media landscape. CWI has been active, offering master’s thesis around the core topics of the project. Last year, two students graduated at TU [...]

September 2, 2019

Join the VRTogether team in Amsterdam for the IBC Show

· Visitors will be able to try out our latest social Virtual Reality experience at the show’s Future Zone.· The event will showcase some of the world’s latest innovations in media technology from 13 – 17 September 2019. The 2019 edition of IBC –the world’s most influential media, entertainment and technology show– is returning to [...]

August 20, 2019

The big show
Second pilot shooting in Madrid

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 [...]

June 27, 2019

VRTogether wins Best Demo Award at ACM MMSys2019

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 [...]

June 26, 2019

Spanish students get immersed in the VRTogether experience

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 [...]

June 20, 2019

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

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 [...]

June 6, 2019

How we’re tackling low-latency challenges

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 [...]

June 4, 2019

VRTogether wins Best Exhibition Award at NEM 2019

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 [...]

May 31, 2019

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

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 [...]

May 23, 2019

VR-Together at CERTH-ITI Open Day 2019

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 [...]

May 7, 2019

VR Communication and 5G networks

5G networks offer a substantial improvement over previous mobile network generations. As always for each new generation, more bandwidth is promised. But, 5G also offers improvement in other areas: ultra-low latency on the radio layer, distributed in-network processing with edge computing near the base stations, network slicing to offer improved quality guarantees, and a dynamic [...]

April 29, 2019

The VR-Together Lab gets on track

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 [...]

April 12, 2019

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

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 [...]

March 29, 2019

Virtual reality and art: a world of possibilities

Virtual reality has, indeed, a great number of technological applications. However, technology not the only field where VR has a successful background. In the last years, virtual reality has been, not only a complement, but a great tool to create, experience and enjoy art. Artists have discovered a new way to express themselves (and to [...]

March 4, 2019

VR-Together at Laval VRIC (Virtual Reality International Conference)

VR-Together will be present at Laval Virtual on 20 and 21 March 2019 to present the capabilities of the web-based pipeline for communicating and collaborating in photorealistic social immersive environments. TNO will present the projects work on the web-based pipeline with a paper and talk. The talk will be presented by Tom De Koninck from [...]

February 15, 2019

A new pilot to push the boundaries of social VR

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 [...]

January 23, 2019

The tradeoffs of virtual reality content formats

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 [...]

January 18, 2019

VRTogether wins the Best Demo Award at MMM2019

VRTogether project partner CERTH participated at the 25th International MultiMedia Modeling Conference (MMM) with the SpaceWars demo. MMM conference is a leading international forum for researchers and industry practitioners to share new ideas, original research results and practical development experiences from all multimedia-related areas. The MMM 2019 program is organized in several regular oral sessions, [...]

December 12, 2018

Understanding and Measuring Social VR Experiences

By Jie Li, Francesca de Simone, and Pablo Cesar, CWI VRTogether partner CWI has created a new protocol and set of metrics for evaluating social VR experiences with end-users. The protocol and metrics include both quantitative and qualitative aspects, such as a new questionnaire combining presence, immersion, and togetherness; and a set of objective metrics […]

November 29, 2018

A roadmap for festivals

Virtual reality is not anymore a fantasy or a sci-fi type of entertainment. Since the last years, numerous festivals have been recognizing virtual reality as a independent category in terms of awards and recognition, making it an art by itself. Today we are going to take a look at some festivals that have recognize virtual […]

October 2, 2018

VR strikes back at MPEG

VRTogether project partners Motion Spell, TNO and CWI participated at the last MPEG meetings (#122 and #123) in San Diego and Ljubljana with the intention of getting brand-new feedback around Virtual Reality. It appears that VR activities blossom in many fields: MPEG-I, OMAF, Point clouds, NBMP, MPEG-MORE. The long-term trend shows that VR is coming […]

September 19, 2018

CWI Standardization Efforts in VQEG (and ITU)

With the recent advances in capture and display technologies, VR and AR applications are on the spot again. These applications involve new kinds of visual signals, such as omnidirectional images and video, and volumetric signals, such as meshes and point clouds. Additionally, they imply a truly interactive and immersive user experience: the end user can […]

September 14, 2018

Demonstrating the project at the IBC Show 2018

The VR-Together project is being exposed at the IBC Show during these days (14-18 September) in Amsterdam. This show is one of the world’s most influential media, entertainment and technology conferences. The project is showcasing a sample of the first pilot, which is an interrogatory scene in photo-realistic quality 3D representation, in which two users […]

August 16, 2018

Your body feels good

Do you feel in control of the body that you see? This is an important question in virtual reality (VR) as it highly impacts the user’s sensation of presence and embodiment of an avatar representation while immersed in a virtual environment. To better understand this aspect, VR together partners Artanim performed an experiment to assess […]

August 9, 2018

VRTogether has launched a market research study covering VR trends and technologies

VRTogether’s members are currently analysing the market to provide a wide vision of the current market and the expected evolution of the immersive audiovisual products. The objectives of this study are t: Shed light on changing behaviours and associated expectations in audio-visual consumption. Assess the market potential of the solutions developed within VRTogether group both […]

August 3, 2018

VRTogether and the future of Social VR

The virtual reality market is gaining more traction by the day, large players in the field develop new innovative solutions to maximise immersiveness and a lot is fueled by the social media giant named Facebook who owns one of the most powerful companies in the field, Oculus. It’s Chief Scientist, Michael Abrash, recently published an […]

July 18, 2018

The comeback of VR at MPEG

The general feeling from the MPEG community is that Virtual Reality (VR) made a false start. The Oculus rift’s acquisition (2014) for $2bn created a premature launch of a funding bubble that exploded in early 2017. However, the long-term trend shows that VR is coming back on the scene and will soon catch up into […]

July 13, 2018

VR at NAB show: the calm before the storm?

The 2018 annual NAB Show pulled in more than 100,000 attendees to the Las Vegas Convention Center to see more than 1800 exhibiting companies. As a VRTogether project partner, Motion Spell went to the show to probe the innovation regarding Virtual Reality (VR). The show was quite packed, and contrary to IBC, it seems like […]

July 3, 2018

New capturing experiment for HMD removal research

VRTogether partner CERTH will soon start capturing face content in 3D (RGB-D), with and without a head-mounted display (HMD), to be used for HMD-removal and any other research purpose of the project. In this post, we present the key components of the experiment and provide shots of the user lab located at CERTH. The photos […]

May 8, 2018

From Amsterdam to Seoul: disseminating the project around the globe

Two papers from the VRTogether project have been accepted: one is for a demo at the ACM Multimedia Systems Conference 2018 (MMSys), which will be held in Amsterdam from 12 to 16 June; the other is a WiP Paper for the ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for Television and Online Video (ACM TVX2018), which […]

Image 4. Jonathan D. Mellor being scanned with a mocap suit

April 27, 2018

First shooting in Geneva: pilot 1

As we said in our previous post (by our partners Artanim), we started and finished the shooting of the first technology demonstration, also known as the pilot 1, on the first week of April. Both Entropy Studio and Artanim worked together in Artanim’s headquarters located in Geneva (Switzerland). After a short flight from Madrid to […]

April 4, 2018

New venues for capturing facial performance

VR together partners Artanim and Entropy will soon start shooting cinematic content to be used for showcasing the technology developed by the consortium. In this post we bring some of the production effort developed at Artanim, which is currently exploring the use of Apple’s iPhone X face tracking technology in the production pipeline of 3D […]

February 28, 2018

The pilot experience: A new direction

In the latest posts we have been talking about the experience of shooting a whole series of pilots to show the work and the research process behind the VRTogether project, so in this post we are going to explain the plot evolution of these pilots. To represent visually the research work of the VR Together […]

February 13, 2018

Delivering your new VR social experience: our commitment in VRTogether

Introduction Although VR has been a buzz word for the past few years, VR experience delivery is still at its infancy. There are some products starting to use tiles and other techniques to broadcast VR videos but real deployments still stream flat equirectangular videos. There are no standards able to stream and merge 3D models […]

February 6, 2018

MPEG Activity on Point Cloud Compression

A point cloud is defined as a set of points in 3D space with specified geometry coordinates and associated attributes such as colour. Point clouds are an important emerging format for VR applications because of their simplicity and versatility. There are no restrictions on the attributes associated with every point in the cloud. Point clouds […]

January 30, 2018

Understanding Point Cloud Quality Perception

Human body point clouds were used in the experiment, taken from the 8i Voxelixed Full Bodies (8iVFB v2) dataset VR-Together partner CWI conducted a series of mixed method experiments on understanding user perception of point cloud quality. 24 people participated in the experiment, which was divided into two parts. In the first part, participants were […]

January 24, 2018

New VR-Together Capture System based on cutting-edge technologies

Microsoft announced the discontinuation of the Kinect for Xbox One device, the integrated depth-sensing device of the initial people 3D capture system. However, Intel recently released new high-tech depth-sensing devices, Intel RealSense D400-Series, providing depth data of high quality and accuracy as well as of high frame rate. CERTH has purchased 4 x D415 and […]

January 12, 2018

Promoting social VR at joint 3GPP SA4 & VR Industry Forum Workshop

A joint 3GPP SA4 & VR Industry Forum Workshop on VR Ecosystem and Standards took place in Santa Clara from 4th-6th December. Close to 150 participants from companies such as Apple, AT&T, Dolby, Ericsson, Intel, Movielabs, Oculus, Samsung, Qualcomm and Verizon attended sessions on standardisation coordination, VR content production, service provider and VR Hardware/device manufacturer […]

December 13, 2017

Demonstrating social VR at VR Days EU

VR-Together partner TNO demonstrated its initial social VR platform at VR Days EU 2017 in Amsterdam on 24-26 october. Two visitors had the opportunity to visit and share a virtual living room, play a game of Blobby Volley and experience social VR first-hand. In collaboration with CWI, a survey was held and over 90 visitors shared […]

December 4, 2017

Best Exhibition Award at NEM Summit 2017

VR Together partners TNO, i2CAT, CWI and Viaccess-Orca attended the NEM Summit 2017 to showcase first project results. An early-stage demo, created by TNO, allowed visitors to get a first feel for how the project partners will enable shared and social VR experiences. Many visitors took the opportunity to watch content in a virtual living […]

October 20, 2017

VR Together takes flight

On October 16th and 17th, the consortium members of VR Together met for the fist time at the headquarters of the i2CAT Foundation, in Barcelona. VR Together is a media project funded by the European Commission as part of the H2020 program, under the grant agreement 762111. It will last for 3 years (2017-2020) and […]