Curious about the latest developments in the SHARESPACE project? Our latest newsletter covers recent highlights and a look ahead. From the Olympic Games to Ars Electronica, IEEE VR, and more — see how SHARESPACE has been contributing to key global events.Read the full update here.
New video in our SHARESPACE playlist! Ethics by Design (EbD) is a proactive approach that integrates ethical considerations into every stage of the development process to minimize potential harm to humans, nonhuman animals, and the environment. This approach is increasingly emphasized within European projects to ensure that ethical issues are not just an afterthought but … Read more
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
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
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
This project has received funding from the European Union’s research and innovation program Horizon Europe under grant agreement No 10192889
