Meeting the Network: Dr. Danielle Levac

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.

Danielle Levac

She directs the Rehabilitation Games and Virtual Reality Laboratory, where her research and scholarship focus on the sustainable, evidence-based integration of virtual reality and active video games into rehabilitation practice. One of the main goals of Levac’s research program is to explore the “active ingredients” of practice in virtual environments for motor learning and transfer in children and adults with neuromotor impairments.

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Call for Papers: Digital Twin for Industry 4.0

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 technologies including Industry 4.0, has spawned a new generation of connected, robotic, and smart factories. With the digital revolution, the boundaries between the physical and digital world are shrinking, giving life to an interconnected 4.0 factory where employees, machines, and products closely interact.

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Laval Virtual – ReVolution Competitions

Laval Virtual Competitions that promote emerging actors

The ReVolution competitions enable projects and cutting-edge technologies or pioneering uses of VR/AR to benefit from a springboard in terms of the exhibition during Laval Virtual. Between 6 and 20 projects are selected in each ReVolution category for their quality and ability to transform the XR sector.

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EuroVR 2020 first Keynote Speaker announcement

Keynote: On the validity of VR experiments

Daniel R. Mestre is a senior researcher in the Institute of Movement Sciences (https://ism.univ-amu.fr/ ) in Marseilles. He is Head of the Mediterranean Virtual Reality Center (www.crvm.eu) and vice-president of the Association for eXtended Reality-AFXR  (www.afxr.org).

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Laval Virtual – “BACK TO SCHOOL CHALLENGE”

For the third year in a row Grenoble School of Management (GEM) has teamed up with Laval Virtual for another Virtual Reality back-to-school challenge.

Photo Courtesy of Laval Virtual

The two institutions partnered to organize a virtual event with 700 students to launch and celebrate Grenoble School 2020 academic year. On Monday, September 14th, 700 students of the Masters in Management (Grande Ecole Program) at Grenoble Ecole de Management had the opportunity to experience their main auditorium of the new digital Virbela campus, created by Laval Virtual.

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Big announcement for EuroVR 2020 Online Conference

EuroVR 2020 Free registration

Major changes for this year await the EuroVR 2020 annual Conference. We previously announced that this year’s conference will be held online. Now we are glad to announce that EuroVR 2020 Conference will be free of charge, for all the attendees.

Visit the official website to stay up to date!

 

Register here and Join us!
25-27 November at EuroVR 2020 Online Conference.
The XR event to grow your knowledge, connections, and business.

Christoph Runde Keynote Speaker at World Class Corporate Extended Reality 2020.

We are pleased to say that Christoph Runde, EuroXR Vice President Industry and General Manager of
VDC will be a Keynote Speaker at the World Class Corporate Extended Reality 2020.

“Testing & evaluating VR/AR components”

Abstract:“The Virtual Dimension Center (VDC), EuroXR member, built up significant testing facilities for VR/AR components. Topics of investigation are e.g. tracking systems and  VR headsets. Christoph Runde will give an insight into VDC’s laboratories and present current and future activities.”

Follow us, today 29 September at 15.15 CEST

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President Marco Sacco is a contributor for VRinSight – Green Paper

Focus Europe Magazine – Special Edition: VRinSight Green Paper: Boosting Virtual Reality in Learning

The special edition, just been published,  features a general presentation of the VRinSight project, flashlights on the current state of VR used in different educational settings, keynote articles from experts across Europe on VR and education, and recommendations to policymakers how to improve the situation, and 24 best practice examples of EU projects in VR presented by their coordinators (Erasmus+, Interreg, Horizon 2020, etc.).

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AFXR Association

EuroXR is pleased to be able to continue its cooperation with the renewed AFXR association, always maintaining as a point of contact Daniel Mestre, Executive Committee member of EuroXR and founding member of AFXR.

AFXR Virtual Reality

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EuroXR partnered with Smart City Live

The leading international summit for cities and urban innovation creates an event for the Covid era.

We are pleased to officially announce the last collaboration that EuroXR has undertaken with Smart City Live and we are glad to support their cause.

Smart City Expo World Congress (SCEWC), the leading international summit on cities and smart urban solutions organized by Fira de Barcelona will hold on November 17-18 an innovative edition under the name Smart City Live. The urban summit will present a new two-day format aimed at providing the best possible urban knowledge platform in and for the Covid19 pandemic context.

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