GuestXR disseminated at the Mobile World Congress 2023 GuestXR coordinator Eurecat disseminated the project during this year’s edition of the Mobile World Congress (MWC23), organised by the GSMA and celebrated on February 27th-March 2nd in Barcelona (Spain). GuestXR was included in the corporate catalogue that Eurecat brought to the event, which was distributed to all…
GuestXR discussed during workshop on the use of AI in Arts and Humanities The GuestXR project was recently discussed during roundtable sessions at the Royal Academy of Engineering in London. The discussions took place as part of the wider workshop “How can the Arts and Humanities shape of AI future?” Darian Meacham, Associate Professor, and…
GuestXR research presented to Virtual & Augmented Reality Master students Mel Slater, GuestXR Technical Coordinator and Investigator and Co-director of the Event Lab of the University of Barcelona, presented the GuestXR project to students of Goldsmiths University of London enrolled on the MA/MSc Virtual and Augmented Reality Master Programme. The lecture, held on February 9th,…
GuestXR and SECTG cluster project partners collaborate in an event on AI technologies enabling social interaction GuestXR partners took part at the online event “Emerging Technologies for Social Interaction”, celebrated on January 26th, 2023, and targeted to researchers and students interested in the most promising emerging technologies for improving social interaction. Representatives from the five…
The GuestXR project joins the SECTG cluster to enhance social harmony in VR spaces The SECTG cluster gathers five projects funded under the FET PROACT-EIC-07-2020 call from the Horizon 2020 program of the European Union, focusing on social interaction in AI environments. The collaboration plan includes the examination of relevant synergies, the development of innovative…
Presentation of GuestXR in a keynote during the ICIR 2022 conference The GuestXR project has been presented in a keynote by Mel Slater, GuestXR Technical Coordinator and Investigator and Co-director of the Event Lab of the University of Barcelona, during the IEEE 2nd International Conference on Intelligent Reality (ICIR 2022), running virtually on December 14th-16th.…
Presentation of the GuestXR project at the DIGEING Conference Mel Slater, GuestXR Technical Coordinator and Investigator and Co-director of the Event Lab of the University of Barcelona, has disseminated the GuestXR project at the Digital Media & Human Well-Being (DIGEING) Conference, organised by the Institute of Complex Systems of Paris IDF (ISC-PIF). The conference has…
GuestXR takes part at the VR Days in Rotterdam Mel Slater, GuestXR Technical Coordinator and Investigator and Co-director of the EventLAB of the University of Barcelona, has participated at the VR Days Europe organised under the framework of the Immersive Tech Week, a series of conferences that took place between November 28th-December 2nd in Rotterdam,…
GuestXR-project future application in healthcare presented at local Medical VR conference Amir Amedi, Professor at the School of Psychology of the Reichman University, presented GuestXR project case study to improve accessibility to VR for people with visual and auditive difficulties during the conference Advances in Medical VR as part of The Medical XR Forum. The…
GuestXR engages with Barcelona’s VR local community The EventLAB of the University of Barcelona has organised on November 15th a local stakeholder event targeted to Catalan researchers and students interested in finding out the possibilities and potential of Extended Reality (XR). The event, consisting on an Open Afternoon at the EventLAB to showcase the research…
