This one is interesting for all researchers, coders, project managers, or product owners currently involved in a trailblazing #XR project:

Submissions for XR Today's XR Awards opened on March 3rd – and won't close until April 11th.

Get more info and send the jury something worthwhile via this link:

https://www.xrtoday.com/xrawards/

XR Awards 2025 - Beyond Horizons

Join the XR Awards 2025 - celebrating groundbreaking innovation in Extended Reality, Virtual Reality, and Augmented Reality. Discover and honor the pioneers transforming enterprise through immersive technology.

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#XR people based in France (or traveling there in March), mark your calendars:

Some of our colleagues in the SERMAS project are co-hosting and contributing to a really interesting #event in Saint Malo (FR) on March 8th:

The workshop on Multi-modal Affective and Social Behavior Analysis and Synthesis in Extended Reality (MASSXR).

More info & registration:
https://sites.google.com/view/massxrworkshop2025

MASSXR is part of IEEE VR 2025:
https://ieeevr.org/2025

MASSXR Workshop @ IEEE VR 2025

NEWS The workshop will be co-located with IEEE VR 2025 at the Palais du Grand Large in Saint-Malo, in Room Surcouf. Please check out the workshop program. The MASSXR 2025 Workshop will take place on March 8, 2025.

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If you had a holodeck, where would you go first? Far-away places? Legendary cultural institutions? Fantastic worlds? Or your mom's cozy little house?

Janko Roettgers wrote a nice article for @verge on the #XR tech that's about to make Trekkie dreams come true:

https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/19/24345491/gaussian-splats-3d-scanning-scaniverse-niantic

The tech to build the holodeck

Gaussian splatting, a new way of capturing 3D content, is taking the AR / VR industry by storm — and could one day allow anyone to create photorealistic 3D worlds.

^{Janko Roettgers (The Verge)}

The University of Glasgow did a survey on #XR and cultural institutions and found out that a vast majority of the 2000+ people polled are very much aware of immersive tech. They want to see more of it at #museums, as it makes things more appealing, especially for younger audiences.

In coop with European partners, DW Innovation has been experimenting with XR in the context of cultural journalism in several R&D projects, with new proposals under review (fingers crossed).

https://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/news/2025/01/survey-reveals-public-demand-for-virtual-reality-museum-experiences/

Survey reveals public demand for virtual reality museum experiences - Museums Association

Digitisation of collections could improve accessibility and attract younger audiences

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Speaking of #XR and #immersive tech:

If you're in Brussels this week, make sure to stop by at #Stereopsia.

Four #SERMAS sub-projects (all of them contributors to our open-source XR/AI toolkit) are part of the EU village:

⭐ 3DforXR
⭐ Langswitch
⭐ Prinia
⭐ XR Shield

More info:
https://stereopsia.com
https://sermas-eu.github.io

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Exhibitions that recycle classic paintings and combine them with other media assets and historical context make great show cases for #XR and #immersive #video technology.

But is this #art? And does it matter?

A DW Technology report:
https://www.dw.com/en/immersive-exhibitions-repackaging-famous-works/video-68098803

Recommended by our colleagues in XReco:

https://xrmust.com is a (relatively) new English and French language blog dedicated to immersive design and storytelling.

There's a focus on interviews (with key creators), XR events, and avant-garde projects.

Worth your time.

#AR #VR #XR

XRMust - Your favorite media on immersive storytelling (XR).

We're all familiar with CENTQUATRE-PARIS, an institution in the north of Paris that hosts a multi-cultural annual programme ranging from concerts to performances, creative workshops to exhibitions (most recently the Grande Expédition, ‘Tara, art and …

^XRMust

The RayBan meta glasses have been hyped for their elegance and impressive technical features – and criticized for being a rather useless, expensive, privacy-invading toy. Whatever you may think of them, also consider this review by a blind woman:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vcatcvvkqac

#xr #ai #accessibility #inclusion