Video SHARESPACE Explained

New video in our SHARESPACE playlist! How could humans use digital avatars in the near future, based on an ethical framework? How can we engage in social situations that include both human and automated avatars? And what technology do we need to explore these ‘hybrid’ spaces together? This short video introduces our approach to hybrid … Read more


Videos: Converge and *falcon heavy

We are excited to present two new videos as part of our YouTube series, SHARESPACE Artistic Explorations, where we showcase the artistic outcomes of the SHARESPACE project. During the Ars Electronica Festival 2024, SHARESPACE featured three interactive artworks at Deep Space 8K, exploring the power of embodied collaboration in immersive environments. Two of these works … Read more


SHARESPACE at IEEEVR 2025

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


SHARESPACE Consortium Meeting in Rennes, France

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


SHARESPACE Open Call 2024: Winners Announced!

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


Workshop on tech ethics

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


Video State of Play: شهر بازی

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


Video Health Scenario

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


Video Sport Scenario

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


SHARESPACE at EuroXR in Athens

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