Lectures
Spring School: Social XR
Social XR technologies allow for shared experiences and interactions among remote users in real-time. However, several technological and research breakthroughs are still needed in order to make social XR widespread and accessible to the public. To enable realistic, immersive, and effective social XR experiences, a synergy is required between different research areas, such as computer graphics, networking and systems, signal processing, multimedia systems and social sciences and humanities.
Apart from the private lectures to the students, the program includes four open lectures on Tuesday 14th March (morning):
- Immersive Video Delivery: From Omnidirectional Video to Holography by Prof. Christian Timmerer
- Virtual Social Interaction and its Applications in Health and Healthcare by Prof. Sylvia Xueni Pan
and Thursday 16th March (afternoon):
- A Journey to Volumetric Video - the Past, the Present and the Future by Oliver Schreer
- eXtended Reality and Passengers of the Future by Stephen Brewster
Scope
The aim of this spring school is to learn about Social XR, as a new medium for communication and collaboration following an interdisciplinary approach, and welcoming students from technology, social sciences, and humanities. In particular, the school will target the following areas:
- 3D Capturing and Modeling realistic avatars, and their behavior in the virtual world;
- Coding, transmission and distribution of volumetric video content, and their optimisation for increasing the QoE;
- Ethics by design, for the development of responsible Social XR experiences;
- Rendering and interaction, including the development of new immersive and multi-sensory experiences;
- Human factors and evaluation, including the assessment and evaluation of experiences and QoE modeling and prediction;
- Research context, providing insights of a research lab, DIS, a Horizon Europe project, TRANSMIXR, and the work of standardization organizations like VQEG and ITU.