After a number of smaller LinkedIn and Twitter updates, we thought we’d take to the blog to announce two really important pieces of news. Nr. 1: There’s a fixed date for our final review now. On June 20th, 2023 we’ll have a long, virtual get-together with the EU’s Horizon 2020 people. They’re (of course) really […]

First things first: We’re fully aware that XR4DRAMA should have been a wrap by the end of 2022 (at the latest) – and that it’s January 2023 now. The reason for the delay was, of course, the Corona pandemic. And all the challenges that came with it. There were things we simply couldn’t do for […]

Before we can slowly get into XR Xmas mode, we have a rather busy week ahead of us: CW 48 will be packed with a full consortium meeting and a showcase at yet another big conference. At first, representatives of all partners will be heading to Pisa, Italy where Smartex will kick off the 4th […]

Sometimes, when tech and use case partners work together really well, prototypes end up with a couple of neat features that weren’t even listed in the original requirements docs. A good example for this is the current version of the XR4DRAMA main mobile application: up2metric and DW closely cooperated to augment the XR features. Early […]

In yet another look behind the scenes, we explain how we manage to augment the XR4DRAMA maps with more sophisticated 3D models. Image-based 3D reconstruction is an image processing technique used to create a digital 3D model of a real-world object from a set of 2D images. Several free and commercial software packages and algorithms […]

The consortium is on the road again. Next month, we’re going to Brussels to be part of stereopsia, one of Europe’s (and the world’s) leading conferences on immersive tech and media. The event (or it least most of it) will take place at the Maison de la Poste from October 17th to 19th. Our partner […]

Here’s another little peek behind the scenes: As you know, XR4DRAMA is all about creating digital/virtual #situationawareness, i.e. giving users a very good idea of what a specific place looks, sounds, and feels like. The platform tries to achieve that by providing an enhanced 3D map – which is based on multi-modal data and can […]

When the consortium is in the mood for meetings, it’s in the mood for meetings. Less than two weeks after our media production pilot and the first plenary on Corfu, we got together yet again. On May 17th, we met in the “Sala Chiesa” at the beautiful, historic Palazzo Trissino al Corso, located in the […]

So this actually happened: After 17 months of working remotely with seven teams based in four countries, everybody hopped into a car, a bus, onto a train, a ferry, a plane – and went to Corfu. Where we had a much needed all-hands workshop and consortium meeting, at the Ariti Hotel in Kanoni, in the […]

In this series of blog interviews, we further introduce the people and organizations behind XR4DRAMA by asking them about their work and their particular interest in the project. Our seventh and last interview partner is Christos Stentoumis, co-founder of the Athens-based IT engineering company up2metric. 1) When did you first get in touch with the […]