The GuestXR project has organised, in collaboration with the journal Frontiers in Virtual Reality, a series of five online seminars entitled “Striving for Social Harmony in XR”.
GuestXR holds its first General Assembly in Barcelona The GuestXR project has celebrated on June 27th-28th its 1st General Assembly in the facilities of Eurecat, project coordinator, in Barcelona. This meeting has represented the first face-to-face encounter of the consortium, since the kick-off meeting was held in an online format. In the meeting, the different…
Reichman University organises a symposium to discuss applications and implications of XR in the society GuestXR partner Reichman University has celebrated on June 13th a symposium to discuss the applications and implications that Extended Reality can have in the society. The event, called “XR for the people”, took place in the Sammy Ofer School of…
GuestXR organises the first meeting with its user group The GuestXR user group has officially kicked off with the celebration of its first online meeting, held on June 1st. The meeting was conducted by Mel Slater, GuestXR project Technical Coordinator and Investigator and Co-director of the Event Lab of the University of Barcelona. The aim…
GuestXR is present in a Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) workshop Dani Shanley, project partner from Maastricht University, talked about the GuestXR project in a panel discussion in the International Workshop on Responsible Research and Innovation Futures organised by the Belgian Science and Technology in Society Network at the Catholic University of Leuven on June…
The European project GuestXR is to develop an immersive virtual social space anchored in extended reality. It will feature a machine learning agent designed to unlock interactions between participants and help them achieve their goals while it additionally supports addressing conflicts in virtual environments such as the metaverse.
GuestXR Technical Coordinator from the University of Barcelona delivered an online lecture to a graduate class of Harvard University.
Presentation of the GuestXR hearing impaired use case in WCA 2022 The GuestXR project has been present in the XXXV World Congress of Audiology (WCA 2022) celebrated on the 10th-13th of April in Warsaw, Poland. Project partners Umut Sayin, researcher at Eurecat Multimedia Technologies Unit, and Amir Amedi, Professor in the School of Psychology in Reichman University,…
Adapting VR environment into 3D restaurant for a newspaper interview GuestXR project researchers from the Event Lab of the University of Barcelona developed a 3D Virtual Reality restaurant environment for a Financial Times newspaper interview. The environment is based on “VR United”, a VR technology created by Drs Ramon Oliva, Alejandro Beacco, and Jaime Gallego…
Maastricht University organises a local symposium about VR and Neuroscience Beatrice de Gelder, GuestXR partner from Maastricht University and Paris IAS, and Julie Grezes, from ENS Paris, organised the online local event “Virtual Realities, real experiences – Perspectives from behavioral & neuroscience studies”. The event, taking place on February 17th, 2022, addressed central notions like…
