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Here the latest updates on SUN
Realistic Avatars in industrial sectors
Avatars are core actors in any human centered use case of the XR digital revolution. Specifically in industrial sectors, they will be the virtual representation of workers and employees from training, to performing actions in digital twins of the factory and many more...
Interaction between users within a shared virtual environment
XR environments offer new opportunities for collaboration, but they also present challenges regarding users’ perception of each other’s intentions and actions. In that context, TUC introduces mechanisms that facilitate seamless...
Datasets featuring rehabilitation exercises performed by patients with musculoskeletal conditions
There's a notable shortage of publicly available datasets featuring rehabilitation exercises performed by patients with musculoskeletal conditions. Within @SUNxr.he project, researchers from @Thingenious have managed to collect KneE-PAD...
AI impainting to increase the quality of 3D assets
Realistic XR environments require high-quality 3D assets. Unfortunately, digitized 3D objects often suffer from errors in their texture. CNR-ISTI is harnessing the power of AI inpainting to fix digitized 3D models working directly in texture space. Through a paint...
Cyber security for Augmented and Virtual Reality
Cyber security for Augmented and Virtual Reality can mean many things, from identifying potential attacks and proposing new cyber risk and privacy awareness mechanisms to cyber risk management and secure authentication. In SUN, we go beyond these. We acknowledge that...
Using eXtended Reality to encourage social involvement for people affected by stroke or traumatic brain injuries
People who have suffered from a stroke or a traumatic brain injury are confronted with a variety of deficits. If many of these impairments respond positively to sensorimotor and cognitive therapies, there are still several difficulties to overcome. For example, a...
SUN XR presence at INCOM 2024
Researchers of the SUN XR project: Josefa Mula, Angel A. Juan and Elena Perez-Bernabeu from the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV); Paolo Cignoni and Daniela Giorgi from the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche-Pisa (CNR); and Fabio Perossini from...
Revolutionizing Manufacturing Safety with XR & AI
Manufacturing shop floors are inherently risky environments. At Factor Ingeniería y Decoletaje S.L., we're partnering with Holo and UPV to develop cutting-edge eXtended Reality (XR) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions that prioritize worker safety and...
The three pilots are ready for carrying out
All requirements and procedures needed to execute the experimentation in the different scenarios were carefully identified. The validation process will occur in two phases: the first phase will involve healthy individuals utilizing the initial release of the SUN...
Sensory perception and acceptance of prosthetic limbs
Researchers at EPFL in Switzerland have created a groundbreaking technology that allows amputees to experience the sensation of wetness through their prosthetic limbs. This innovation involves a sensor attached to the prosthetic hand connected to a stimulator that...
Ethics by Design
"Ethics by Design" is a proactive approach to integrating ethical considerations into the design and development of technology, systems, or processes from the very beginning. Instead of treating ethics as an afterthought or a reactive measure, this concept encourages...
Sensor-based emotion recognition
Understanding emotions is crucial in extended reality (XR) applications, offering information about user’s experience. Sensors play a vital role in emotion monitoring by capturing various physiological and behavioral signals, from heart rate to respiration and...
SUN XR User requirements
SUN user requirements have been finalised by KPEOPLE and IN2 (https://in-two.com/). The phases of co-creating user requirements went from personal interviews with the end users participating in the project (CRR-Suva, OAC, ASL-NO, FACTOR) to workshops with all partners...
IGOODI Avatar production platform
The IGOODI IGVH Avatar production platform is taking form! Here’s a sneak peak of the current development state of the art for our automatic, scalable, cloud-native, avatar production pipeline. It is able to reconstruct a fully rigged, textured, clothed and highly...
Highly wearable haptic interfaces
The horizons of virtual reality are becoming increasingly more and more popular, embracing not only pure entertainment but also crucial industrial and rehabilitative sectors. Within the SUN XR project, the new challenges of virtual reality are materializing through...
SUN – VR Application for Cerebral Rehab after Stroke
Over 80% of stroke patients suffer in the acute phase from motor deficits with still 30-50% in the chronic phase. SUN XR Platform can have the potential to reach a large group of stroke patients, especially in the view of more the 1.5 million strokes per year in...
Gaze-activated User Interface
To optimize the performance of gaze-activated UIs in the SUN project's use cases, TUC introduces mechanisms that address the Midas touch problem, where unintended activations are triggered by mere gazing. The "gaze-to-select and blink-to-commit" approach leverages...
Deep learning alghoritms on smart devices
Can cutting-edge deep learning algorithms run on low power edge devices such as smartwatches? Our partner ThinGenious and researchers from Politecnico di Torino proved they can! Check out the preprint of our latest article on how multi-head cross-attention blocks can...
Bringing Virtual Worlds to Life Just Got Easier
CNR-ISTI is revolutionizing the way we create immersive experiences in gaming and industry with a groundbreaking AI. Forget about the limitations of old tech like short-range depth cameras and slow motion capture. Their new...
SUN Project’s Innovative XR Solutions Poised to Revolutionize Cancer Aftercare: Commissioner Kyriakides Emphasizes Long-term Support
The Social and hUman ceNtered XR (SUN) project, in collaboration with various partners including OAC, is dedicated to exploring and enhancing extended reality (XR) solutions with a focus on human and social interaction. Despite not being directly affiliated with...
First Pilot 2 External Stakeholders’ Meeting in Valencia (ES)
On February 8, the first pilot 2 external stakeholders’ meeting was held. It was a great opportunity to share SUN XR with representatives from SMEs and collect their needs and expectations about the project. The input received are important to guarantee that the...
SUN XR approach to cyber security
As XR is becoming a reality in many industries, new threats in cyber security are recognised at great pace over the last few months. Recent academic publications have shown the risks of password disclosure in mixed reality based smart manufacturing applications ,...
Involvement of end-users to ensure the usefulness of the solutions in Pilot 3
On January 22, we held our first SUN-XR stakeholder meeting at the Clinique romande de réadaptation. It was an excellent opportunity to bring together representatives of patients’ associations (@Fragile Suisse), clinicians and innovation specialists (@The ARK, @EPFL)....
Merging Ancient Wisdom and Modern Technology: Integrating Tai Chi and Qi Gong into XR Rehabilitation for Upper Limb Edema
In the quest to enhance rehabilitation techniques, especially for conditions like upper limb edema, the SUN XR project emerges as a pioneering endeavor, working on the integration of XR tools within rehabilitation. Background: Upper Limb Edema and Current...
First Pilot 1 External Stakeholders’ Meeting in Viareggio (IT)
On wednesday January the 24th, the pilot 1 external stakeholders' meeting there was a very productive discussion on how the SUN project ecosystem will be designed and in particular about relationships between patients and therapists during rehabilitation with the use...
First Pilot 3 External Stakeholders’ Meeting in Sion (CH)
The Role of external stakeholder is crucial to guarantee the "social" aspects of our project. In view of that in each pilot a stakeholders' group is going to be established. The Pilot 3 first stakeholders' meeting took place in Sion (CH), involving professionals,...
SUN XR Rehab Pilot studies planning
The integration of the different modules of the integrated platform of Extended Realty (XR) in SUN Project, is going on and thus the planning of the three different pilots has started. As for the pilot one, rehabilitation scenario, it has been totally defined as well...