Cyntha Wieringa

The IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (IEEE VR) is an international event dedicated to advancements in virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR). This year’s edition, IEEE VR 2025, was held in Saint-Malo, France, from March 8-12 and was organized by Inria. The conference gathered over 1,200 participants from more than 40 … Read more

Coming fresh of the IEEE VR conference in Saint Malo, France, a very special SHARESPACE consortium meeting was hosted at Inria in Rennes on March 13th & 14th. The conference the week before attracted multiple Horizon Europe XR research projects, and thus Inria hosted the consortium meetings of two other projects next to SHARESPACE: GuestXR … Read more

The Open Call 2024 process for the Horizon Europe project SHARESPACE has finished. We were extremely excited to receive over 65 promising applications from over 15 different countries. We want to express our gratitude to all those who applied. The winning project is proposed by a group of artists led by Leon Butler and Peter … Read more

Ethics has increasingly become part and parcel of publicly funded technology projects, and corporations have also frequently established their own ethics boards. While there has been an explosion of technology guidelines, there is reduced focus on the implementation and study of the effectiveness of these ethics proposals. This one-day interdisciplinary workshop will explore if, when, … Read more

We are starting a YouTube series where we show the artistic outcomes of SHARESPACE. What happens when young, innovative artists reimagine how humans and avatars interact? State of Play: شهر بازی – the project selected through the 2023 SHARESPACE Open Call – does exactly that. Over the past year, we have worked closely with media … Read more

New video in our YouTube series SHARESPACE Explained! In this series we are explaining our core concepts, research, and technology. For this fourth video, we explain one of the three Real World Scenarios: Health. In this video, Anna Server of Vall d’Hebron Hospital in Barcelona and Azucena Garcia-Palacios of Universitat Jaume I De Castellon talk … Read more

New video in our YouTube series SHARESPACE Explained! In this series we are explaining our core concepts, research, and technology. For this third video, we explain one of the three Real World Scenarios: Sport. In this video, senior researcher Frank Multon and PhD student Valentin Ramel talk about their research at Inria (French national research … Read more

Euro XR, the premier European conference dedicated to advancing Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and Mixed Reality (MR), took place this year from November 27 to 29. Held in the historic city of Athens, this year’s event gathered innovators, researchers, and industry leaders to explore the transformative power of XR technology across various sectors. … Read more

The old city of Nicosia played host to the latest SHARESPACE research consortium meeting, held at the Cyens Center of Excellence on the 25th and 26th of November. Representatives from all project partners gathered to review the progress of ongoing work packages and chart the course for the next phase of SHARESPACE. The meeting was … Read more

The innovative Good Enough Ethics (GEE) policy brief, developed by researchers from De Montfort University as part of the SHARESPACE project, has been officially launched. GEE, an approach inspired by “Ethics by Design” (EbD), was introduced during a keynote address by Professor Kathleen Richardson at the 2024 Ars Electronica Festival. The keynote lecture, along with … Read more