Less than one week until the beginning of EuroVR 2020. We have prepared a short guide to help you find your way around EuroVR’s first Virtual Conference. REGISTRATION: Grab your free ticket for EuroVR 2020!
Is it possible to develop rehabilitation training to be practiced in the comfort of your home? How to provide a motivating environment to make the train more fun for the patient? We often ask ourselves these questions, especially during this period when a greater social distancing is imposed on us. The VR4REHAB Project demonstrates how […]
VAM Realities Challenge is a competition to uncover the best European XR solutions and make them available for the SMEs of tomorrow. Winners will receive wide exposure and access to the European industrial sector in Belgium, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the Netherlands. Virtual, augmented and mixed realities (VAM Realities) play an increasingly […]
5G is not just an evolutionary upgrade it is a revolutionary technology that will eliminate the bounds of access, bandwidth, performance, and latency limitations on connectivity worldwide. With the potential for 5G networks to provide anytime and anywhere connectivity, the number of applications will be quite large.
How to “unlock and maximize” the development potential of extended reality? It’s a question that many in the industry have asked themselves. The global Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR and AR) market is set to grow exponentially, between 2020 and 2022, worldwide spending on VR and AR is forecasted to expand at an average annual […]
We’re thrilled to announce that VR4REHAB will take part in EuroVR 2020. A special session entitled VR4REHAB-VR for Rehabilitation will take place on 27 November from 10.00 to 12.00. An opportunity to discover the recent progress of the VR4REHAB Interreg Project and to discuss the future of rehabilitation and healthcare innovation strategies. Image courtesy of […]
Keynote: Challenges in Perception Engineering Steven M. LaValle received a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois, Champaign, IL, USA, in 1995. He is a professor at the University of Oulu, where he is co-leading the Perception Engineering Group, which pursues problems in virtual reality, robotics, and telepresence.
Keynote: Communicating with Virtual Humans or Social humanoid robots, a natural Human-Computer Interface Professor Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann has pioneered research into virtual humans over the last 30 years. Since 1989, she is a Professor at the University of Geneva where she founded the interdisciplinary research group MIRALab.
Danielle Levac is a Canadian physical therapist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Physical Therapy, Movement and Rehabilitation Sciences, with an affiliate position in the Department of Bioengineering, at Northeastern University in Boston, MA. She directs the Rehabilitation Games and Virtual Reality Laboratory, where her research and scholarship focus on the sustainable, evidence-based integration […]
Frontiers in Virtual Reality has launched a new Research Topic, “Digital Twin for Industry 4.0” Recent advances in both portable and wearable VR devices and the new challenges introduced by the fourth industrial revolution (industry 4.0) further widen the applicability of VR to improve productivity and to enhance the user experience. The emergence of new […]