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Simulation of Heuristics forAutomated Guided Vehicle TaskSequencing with Resource Sharing and Dynamic Queues
Use of EMG decoding technology for rehabilitation
At EPFL, our team is making strides in the world of rehabilitation technology. We're harnessing the power of Electromyography (EMG) decoding to transform the lives of stroke patients and individuals with mobility disorders. This innovative approach captures subtle...
Ethical conduct in SUN XR
In the SUN project, we're dedicated to ensuring ethical conduct, particularly when engaging with vulnerable groups. Defining vulnerability across multiple dimensions, such as age, gender, race, and economic status, we emphasize key aspects: Informed Consent: Ensuring...
Interaction within XR collaborative spaces
The core of XR collaboration is not just sharing a virtual space, but enhancing how users interact within it. The visualization of communication cues, such as hand and gaze, is critical in intuitively conveying the intentions and actions of collaborators, thus,...
Wearable haptic actuators for rendering directional cues developed at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna
Virtual reality systems are becoming increasingly popular, not only as entertainment tools, but for innovating several industrial and social applications, such as training, rehabilitation and guidance. Beyond immersion and realism, haptic devices can use the sense of...
Valencia plenary meeting
On 23rd and 24th of November the SUN project first year end plenary meeting took place. Baseline technologies, Scenarios and Communication activities have been presented and strategy for the mid term milestones were discussed. Video related to thechnologies
Avatar as a tutor for the rehabilitation of patients with motor problems
Is "Avatars for Good" a viable option today? The answer is undoubtedly positive. This is one of the main objectives of the SUNxr.he Project, in which IGOODI and its avatars -along with the other technological partners- are developing an extended reality technological...
Use of XR in a working environment
On July 11 of this year, Hololight’s Head of Research Carina Pamminger traveled to 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗮, 𝗦𝗽𝗮𝗶𝗻 to meet with fellow SUN consortium partner Factor at their national headquarters 🚀 Joined by colleagues from the Universitat Politecnica de Valencia (UPV), a successful...
Neural Radiance Field application in SUN XR
Generating realistic renderings of real-world scenes using traditional computer vision techniques is a complex process. Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) is revolutionizing how we capture and interact with the 3D world. By utilizing advanced deep learning algorithms, NeRF...
AI for monitoring of the body kinematics
Wearable-based sensing technologies enable ubiquitous and continuous monitoring of the body kinematics, while being egocentric, and do not suffer from occlusion or poor lighting, like camera-based solutions. @ThinGenious, in @SUNxr.he EU research project, leverages...
SUN presented at Stereopsia 2023
On October the 18th SUN was presented during the Stereopsia event in Brussels. It was a great opportunity to discuss about issues related to communication both internal and external and SUN representatives describe a possible innovative approach in...
Integration of cutting-edge AI and computer vision techniques.
By integrating cutting-edge AI and computer vision techniques, SUN XR will enable users to search within a scene in real-time using textual cross-modal queries. Imagine being in a bustling factory, seeking a specific item. Now, instead of manually sifting through the...
SUN XR approach to privacy.
A new report from New York University is detailing the major privacy concerns that come with the Metaverse: https://tinyurl.com/4n7h8xkn. Project SUN is not only identifying cyber and security risks but also detecting them in real-time. .
SUN-XR to help stroke patients to recover.
Annually, 15 million people are affected by a stroke worldwide. For a third of these patients, the stroke is fatal, while another third will suffer permanent disability. Rehabilitation process for the patients starts in the early days after the injury and represents a...
HOW SUN XR CAN HELP IN REHABILITATION AFTER MASTECTOMY
The SUN.XR project focuses on rehabilitating women who have undergone mastectomy. In 2020, breast cancer affected 2.3 million women, with around 7.8 million worldwide living with a recent breast cancer diagnosis (WHO, July 17, 2023). The extensive surgery often...
Breaking Boundaries: SUN XR Showcased at the Benicàssim Tech 2023 Workshop
The upcoming BenicàssimTech’2023 Artificial Intelligence Workshop (https://baio.webs.upv.es), scheduled to be held in Villa Elisa (Benicàssim, Spain) on the 20th and 21st of September, is set to showcase some of the research and transfer projects currently under...
HOW AR/VR CAN EASE EMPLOYEES TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT
Currently, Factor Ingeniería y Decoletaje, partner in the SUN Project, is in the process of digitizing the company, focusing its efforts to achieve the philosophy of smart manufacturing. The use of devices enabling data collection for processing is essential. Through...
SOCIAL AND HUMAN CENTERED XR EUROPEAN PROJECT (SUN): SCENARIO DEFINITION IN MORE ADVANCED PHASE.
The develop of an integrated platform of Extended Realty (XR), which is the main goal of SUN European Project, is going on as planned. In particular the pilot 1 that is expected to be used for upper and lower limbs disabilities rehabilitation is now in more advanced...
Non-invasive deep brain stimulation
At EPFL, a new non-invasive deep brain stimulation approach called transcranial temporal interference stimulation (tTIS) is being developed for the SUN project. Combined with XR, this technology could improve motor and cognitive abilities in patients suffering from...
Protecting Data Privacy in Extended Reality: GDPR Principles at the Core
In the rapidly advancing world of Extended Reality (XR), the SUN project is paving the way for innovative applications in rehabilitation, work safety, and aiding individuals with communicating disabilities. While the SUN project holds great promise in developing...
Introduction of OAC, a project use case partner
In the framework of user requirements, we conducted interviews with the use case partners in the SUN project in order to understand better their needs and uncover insights and opportunities for desinging better the XR project pilots and applications. In this post, we...
Multimodal data fusion
When more than one modality (sensors, cameras, etc.) are deployed to a system for the same reason, it is essential to find robust and efficient ways to combine their data to improve the system’s performance. This is the role of multimodal fusion, a task researched by...
Rendering sense of touch in virtual manipulation
Rendering sense of touch in virtual manipulation is a challenging objective: acceptable dimensions and weight of wearable devices worn at fingertips is quite limited, on the other hand, interaction forces in physical manipulation are relatively high, requiring bigger...
IGOODI and the development of AVATARS
IGOODI is strongly committed to the SUN XE Project's ambitious vision of building new, more believable, and more agile opportunities for human and social connection between the physical and virtual worlds. Towards this direction, our ability to generate...
Meeting with ASL NO to define Rehab scenarios
On June 26 the first meeting dealing the Rehab pilot was hosted by ASL-NO in the "Versilia di Camaiore Hospital". During the meeting SUN XR was presented to a group of physiatrists and physiotherapists and comments and needs have been collected. Further meetings will...
HOLO vision of SUN XR
Let's push the development of #XR solutions through our close partnership with Sun.HE We at Holo-Light are committed to emphasise the significance of The SUN Project, which is dedicated to find new ways to make XR more convincing and naturalistic. This project doesn't...
Collaboration in XR to ease interactive experience
Collaboration in XR transforms the way users work together by providing an immersive shared environment that facilitates interactive experiences. In a collaborative environment participants can not only see each other’s position in space but observe their gestures or...