OpenVerse Observatory | XR, Virtual Worlds & Metaverse Directory

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Meetween

In a world of increasing preoccupation with artefacts, interacting with our fellow human beings remains one of our most enjoyable, but also one of our practically most critical activities. We derive inspiration from each other, solve problems and chart our future together. Yet our interaction with fellow humans is far from seamless or frictionless: despite much greater world-wide reach, we suffer (perhaps more than ever) from isolation, barriers and separation due to language, culture, physical distances, time-zones, scheduling conflicts, and distractions to our attention.

MEMENTOES

Harnessing technologies such as virtual and mixed reality to provide highly personal experiences that demonstrate empathy is becoming more widespread. The EU-funded MEMENTOES project will design three immersive video games each intended for a real (rather than virtual) museum. The museums are recognised internationally as Sites of Conscience – places of memory that remember and preserve even the most traumatic memories to allow visitors to make connections between the past and its power to create positive change.

MOTIVATE XR

XR has the potential to revolutionize various industrial sectors by offering more engaging, secure, and inclusive training and assistance for complex tasks thus enabling more people to acquire the skills required to perform such tasks.

NANOVR

As scientists have made progress engineering the structures of molecular systems at the nano-scale, a new fundamental challenge has emerged: namely, our ability to understand and engineer molecular dynamics and flexibility. Drawing on the state-of-the-art in high performance computing [HPC] and virtual reality [VR], the EU-funded NANOVR project will develop a new paradigm for nano-scale design, engineering, and simulation.

NEPTUN

Innovation is crucial for any and every industry. In the EU, innovation has driven the implementation of novel solutions. Unfortunately, some EU countries, like Poland, have not been completely successful at accelerating innovation and introducing new ideas. The EU-funded NEPTUN project, in cooperation with KTH Stockholm, TU Berlin and NTU Athens, will offer a solution. It utilises their experience in subjects like innovations in additive manufacturing, VR technology, and others, as well as their connections with multiple universities.

POPULAR

The Augmented Reality Eyewear (ARE) market is experiencing significant growth in Europe. Considering the strong research and development (R&D) capabilities of the European eyewear industry, it can emerge as a global market leader. In this context, the EU-funded POPULAR project will develop the first generic platform for ARE for a wide range of users and purposes. The eyewear will be designed to offer visual, wearable, vestibular, and social comfort, making it suitable for all-day use.

PRESENCE

The concept of presence can be understood as a synthesis of interrelated psychophysical ingredients where multiple perceptual dimensions intervene. A better understanding on how specific aspects, such as plausibility (the illusion that virtual events are really happening), co-presence (the illusion of being with others), or place illusion (the feeling of being there) impact XR experiences is key to improve their quality.

SHARESPACE

Extended reality (XR) is an emerging technology with promising potential in many areas, but several limitations must be overcome to enrich the interactive experience for users. The EU-funded SHARESPACE project aims to establish a novel prototype for a socially interactive avatar and/or agent based on human sensorimotor communication. It will capture natural body movements, facial expressions and hand gestures to compile an array of sensorimotor primitives: these will aid the design of AI-based architecture of a fully mobile human rendering with customisable characteristics.

SONICOM

Sound is an integral part of the human experience. As one of the most important ways of sensing and interacting with our environment, sound plays a major role in shaping how the world is perceived. In virtual or augmented reality (VR/AR), simulating spatially correct audio is of vital importance to delivering an immersive virtual experience. However, acoustic VR/AR presents many challenges. Using the power of artificial intelligence, the EU-funded SONICOM project aims to deliver the next milestone in immersive audio simulation.

SPIRIT

Immersive telepresence technologies will have groundbreaking impacts on interactions amongst individuals and machines in cyberspace in several vertical sectors, including education and training, healthcare, the manufacturing industry, etc. However, these technologies face critical limitations concerning the application platform and the underlying network support to achieve seamless presentation, processing and delivery of immersive telepresence content on a large scale.

SUN

Extended reality (XR) is an emerging technology with promising potential in many fields including health, communication and safety. However, overcoming XR’s limitations in providing authentic interactive social environments is key to further developing its applications. The EU-funded SUN project aims to advance the social interactivity of XR technology by establishing scalable models with sustained and convincing virtual environments.

THEIA-XR

Even though extended reality (XR) technologies are not being fully implemented, they have the potential to offer substantial advantages to various sectors if further researched and advanced. The EU-funded THEIA-XR project will develop a set of XR technologies to expand workplace, workload and operation visibility for machinery operators. The technologies will improve worker-machine cooperation efficiency while also improving safety. The project approach will be validated by tests in three different sectors: snow grooming, construction and logistics.

TIMELAPSE

Chemotherapy can involve lengthy treatment sessions, lasting up to several hours. Such a duration, spent in an overly medicalized setting, can induce in the patients a monopolizing focus on their pathology, which leads to a substantial decrease in their mental well-being. One way to alleviate the impact of long chemotherapy sessions would be accelerating subjective time passage as perceived by the patients, therefore making the treatment seemingly end more quickly.

TransMIXR

The advancement of extended reality (XR) and artificial intelligence (AI) has given the European creative and cultural sector (CCS) the opportunity to revolutionise digital co-creation, interaction and engagement. The EU-funded TRANSMIXR project will develop human-centred tools for collaborative co-creation and consumption of multi-modal immersive media through social XR. Using the Living Labs methodology, the project will bring together the necessary interdisciplinary skills and domain expertise to design and develop such human-centric tools and immersive media experiences.

TrustChain

Wireless communication systems have made rapid progress over the years. With the 5G mobile network rolling out worldwide as the new standard for broadband cellular networks, Beyond 5G and the next generation 6G networking technologies are promising to break new ground in terms of digital technologies reach throughout our private and work lives. This reach and the vast amounts of data collected from people, operations and more create a critical need for safety, privacy and fair use of data.

VERGE

Edge computing involves an ecosystem of highly heterogeneous computing elements, which may be located practically everywhere across the path between the end-devices, the access network and the central cloud. In this context, the EU-funded VERGE project will design a flexible, modular and converged edge platform to support distributed AI at the edge. Focusing on security, privacy and trustworthiness, VERGE will carry out two use cases. The first will cover mixed reality driven edge-enabled industrial Beyond 5G applications in Turkey.

WATERLINE

Capacity building to strengthen networks of higher education institutions and their cooperation with surrounding ecosystems is one of the goals of the EU. In this context, the EU-funded WATERLINE project aims to create a European Digital Water Higher Education Institution Alliance based on the quadruple helix model of innovation, which recognises four major actors in the innovation system: science, policy, industry and society. This approach will lead to the development of the Alliance's research, educational and entrepreneurship capacities.

XR2Industry

In a tech landscape echoing Johannes Gutenberg’s transformative impact on printing (with the movable-type printing press around 1440), the EU-funded XR2Industry project emerges as the extended reality (XR) pioneer. Focused on data privacy, empowerment and industrial relevance, XR2Industry envisions an open platform. Lynx, the hardware platform carrier, unites key researchers and legal experts, ensuring GDPR compliance. The collaboration extends to content developers, virtual reality/XR solutions experts and end users.

XR2Learn

Virtual, augmented or mixed reality (VR/AR/MR) – in general extended reality (XR) – provides numerous benefits in education. XR increases the knowledge area, offers active experience rather than just passive information, helps to understand complex concepts, subjects or theories, prevents distractions during the study, boosts creativity and expands learners’ efficiency in gaining knowledge.

XR4ED

The pandemic forced many changes in education at every level. Lockdowns designed to curb the spread of coronavirus accelerated the adoption of digital technology. This was a boost for Europe’s EdTech sector, which continues to grow. The EU-funded XR4ED project will explore the use of the extended reality (XR) industry, which has evolved and maintained a leading role globally in software and content production. Specifically, it will investigate learning resources and advantages of learning using XR.

XR4Human

Extended reality (XR) is defined as technology that can merge the physical and virtual worlds. It covers virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality. As with any technology, XR faces certain challenges, particularly regarding privacy, security, ethics and associated safety, amongst others. The EU-funded XR4Human project aims to establish living guidelines on ethical and related policy, regulatory, governance and interoperability issues of XR technologies within a European community of practice.

XR5.0

XR5.0 will build, demonstrate, and validate a novel Person-Centric and AI-based XR paradigm that will be tailored to the requirements and nature of I5.0 applications. In this direction, the project will specify structuring principles and blueprints for using XR in I5.0 applications with emphasis on the development of innovative “XR-made-in-Europe” technology that blends with human-centric manufacturing technologies and adheres to European values.

XReco

While media organisations increasingly support non-linear experiences for the consumer, those are still limited to single channels and media domains. Although several media organisations have recently succeeded in breaking data silos, data sharing is mostly limited to the organisation. Thus, there are challenges for producing content feeding multiple channels with different granularities and structures, mainly related to data discovery, management and (re-)use.

XTREME

Engaging with art and music has a positive effect on health, but limitations such as venue location, personal constraints, scheduling conflicts, and costs often hinder access to these experiences. With this in mind, the EU-funded XTREME project aims to develop a human-centred mixed reality (MR) solution that transports concerts and performances to remote locations, removing physical constraints. This MR technology integrates real and virtual content, where users can share the experience virtually with selected social circles, promoting inclusivity.

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