GuestXR research presented in an international neuroscience conference Beatrice de Gelder, Professor and Director of the Brain and Emotion Laboratory from the University of Maastricht, participated in the international conference “Mindful Connections – Social Interactions, Emotional Processnig and Interference in the Brain”, organised on October 10th-11th, 2023, by the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, a cultural institution…
Presenting a VR experience with avatars during the GSG Global Summit Mel Slater, GuestXR Technical Coordinator and Investigator and Co-director of the Event Lab of the University of Barcelona, has participated in the GSG Global Summit celebrated in Málaga (Spain) on October 2nd-3rd, 2023. During the event, Mel Slater highlighted the use of avatars for…
Presenting a GuestXR paper at the 23rd ACM IVA Conference Alon Shoa, Master Student from the Advanced Reality Lab – Reichman University, has presented a scientific paper based on GuestXR during the 23rd ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, taking place between September 19th-22nd in Würzburg (Germany). The article, entitled “Sushi with Einstein: Enhancing…
GuestXR calls for social-impact applications integrating extended reality technologies Organisations and individuals can now apply to access innovative Extended Reality technologies for the development and implementation of an application addressing societal issues g.tec medical engineering, www.gtec.at GuestXR is a European project that develops an immersive virtual social environment integrating a machine learning agent designed to unlock…
Presenting a GuestXR paper at the World Haptics conference Jeanne Hecquard and Claudio Pacchierotti, from project partner Inria, attended the IEEE World Haptics 2023 conference, which took place on July 10th-13th in Delft (the Netherlands). During the event, Jeanne Hecquard, PhD Student at Inria, presented the work “Fostering social empathy in Virtual Reality through physiologically…
Presenting GuestXR during the Sonar festival in Barcelona Project partners Umut Sayin, from Eurecat, and Bernhard Spanlang, from Virtual Bodyworks, disseminated GuestXR during the popular Sonar festival, celebrated in Barcelona between June 13th-15th, 2023. The presentation was held on June 15th during the session “Open Mic: Creative tech with social impact”, dedicated to social entrepreneurship…
Partners from Maastricht University run a local symposium on body perception Prof. Beatrice de Gelder, project partner from Maastricht University, organised through the Brain and Emotion laboratory the symposium “How body relevance drives brain organization” on June 14th, 2023. The event, where GuestXR research was presented, featured discussions on the topic of body perception from…
GuestXR partners hold a webinar on hate speech in extended reality platforms GuestXR partners Dani Shanley, post-doctoral researcher from the University of Maastricht, and Esen Küçüktütüncü, PhD candidate at the Institute of Neurosciences of the University of Barcelona, recently participated in the webinar “Hate Speech in the Metaverse”, hosted by the Immersive Democracy Project on June 1st, 2023.…
Exhibition of a poster based on GuestXR research during the Vision Sciences Society annual meeting Vojta Smekal, PhD candidate at Maastricht University, has exhibited a poster based on GuestXR research during the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society held between May 19th-24th, 2023, in St. Pete Beach (Florida, United States). The poster, entitled…
Partners from Reichman University present a GuestXR-based paper at the CHI23 conference Iddo Wald and Amber Maimon, project partners from Prof. Amir Amedi’s lab at Reichman University, have presented a scientific paper based on GuestXR research during the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI23), which took place in Hamburg, Germany, on…
