Periodic Reporting for period 1 - XReco (XR mEdia eCOsystem)
Reporting period: 2022-09-01 to 2024-02-29
The project's main goal is to establish a data-driven approach for fostering development and production of novel XR media experiences by delivering a platform for inter-organisation data sharing. Content and data providers can benefit from distributing their data (monetisation but also access to external contributions) and media creators will benefit from increased access to content. This will allow them to create novel media content and XR experiences using the platform’s reuse services, faster, with less effort and better addressing their consumers.
One of the core goals is to address a diverse range of stakeholders, from large organisations to SMEs, as well as across industries and thus contributing to an XR ecosystem. Feedback from the XR community has already proven the relevance of the wide variety of activities the XReco consortium pursues.
Beyond that, tThe technical work produced some results advancing the state of the art:
• Advances in multimodal search, VR- and MR-based search interfaces, and contributions to improving the evaluation methodologies in leading interactive search benchmarks.
• Advances in real-time free viewpoint video and holoportation pipelines, including integration with the Unity Authoring Tool
• Modification of NeERF pipelines to improve training on custom data and facilitate parameterisation.