SPIRIT project

Last week, the SPIRIT Consortium gathered in Bristol for the General Assembly and Final Review Meeting of the project. The meeting provided an opportunity to reflect on the results achieved and discuss the long-term impact. Thank you to everyone involved for your support!

Join the 2nd EU-Japan Digital Week 2026 📍23–30 March | Tokyo Organised as part of the EU-Japan Digital Partnership, this event brings together stakeholders from government, industry, and policymaking to advance digital collaboration. Register: inpacehub.eu/eu-japan-digit… @EUinJapan

Excited to see SPIRIT featured in a new article from @HorizonMagEU alongside the EU-funded initiative HEAT. The article explores how telepresence is evolving beyond video calls, from holographic communication to immersive experiences. 🧷Full article: ….research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/en/horizon-mag…

🎄 Season's Greetings from the SPIRIT Project! 🎄 The SPIRIT team would like to extend our warmest holiday wishes to our community, partners, and supporters. ✨ Thank you for being part of our journey. From all of us at SPIRIT - Happy Holidays! 🎁🌟

#EUfunded researchers are taking telepresence beyond video calls – from holograms and immersive dining to classrooms that leap across space. 🛰️ Ready to see how research is redefining remote experiences? ➡️ bit.ly/4sapRXe #ResearchImpactEU #Science4EU

Missed the SPIRIT Open Call videos? 🎥 Watch short interviews with innovators from Open Call 1 & 2, presenting their projects, how they used the SPIRIT platform, and their impact. OC1 👉 spirit-project.eu/open-call1-vid… OC2 👉spirit-project.eu/open-call2-vid…

Discover how SPIRIT is building Europe’s first multisite framework for collaborative telepresence! On our YT channel, you’ll find: ✨A sneak peek into the project 📷Highlights from Open Call 1 & 2 projects 📷Interviews with partners 👉@spirit-project" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@spirit-project

Join us for the 2nd INPACE Ask Us Anything session! 📅22 January 2026, 11:00–12:00 CET 📍Online Take this opportunity to: 💡Learn more about INPACE ❓Ask questions directly to the team 🤝Discover how you can collaborate 🌍Connect with experts Register: egcp.enrich-global.eu/communities/in…

Did you miss our latest SPIRIT Newsletter? In this edition, you'll find: ✨Highlights from EuroXR 2025 🎥Video features from Open Call 1 & 2 projects 🎤Partner interviews 📚Latest scientific publications 🌐Updates from our network of projects 👉 preview.mailerlite.io/preview/164860…

In our partner interview, Sergio Tejeda Pastor from @FraunhoferHHI shares insights on holograms, avatars & real-time experiences redefining digital connection. 🎥 Watch the full interview: youtube.com/watch?v=CDpo4L… 📰 Read the full story on our website: spirit-project.eu/2025/11/26/adv…

🎥 Interested in knowing more about the SPIRIT Open Call 2 innovators? We’ve gathered short video interviews where the 16 winning experimenters present their projects, explain how they leveraged the SPIRIT platform, and share the impact of their work. 👉spirit-project.eu/open-call2-vid…

🎥 Curious to learn more about the SPIRIT Open Call 1 innovators? We’ve gathered short video interview where the 11 winning experimenters present their projects, explain how they used the SPIRIT platform, and share the impact of their work. Check them👉spirit-project.eu/open-call1-vid…

📢Discover more about SPIRIT All SPIRIT-related publications are freely accessible on Zenodo! Dive into research on #immersive #telepresence, #XR, and #multimedia #communications - all brought to you by the #SPIRIT team. Explore the publications here: zenodo.org/communities/sp…

Discover how SPIRIT is building Europe’s first multisite framework for collaborative telepresence! On our YT channel, you’ll find: ✨A sneak peek into the project 🌍Highlights from Open Call 1 & 2 projects 💡Our use cases 🤝Interviews with partners 👉@spirit-project" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@spirit-project

🌌 Ready to dive into the future of #telepresence? Subscribe now to the SPIRIT Newsletter and stay updated on how we are working on developing immersive telepresence applications. Don't miss our next edition📷spirit-project.eu/newsletter/ #XR #EUXR #HorizonEU

Did you miss @Euro_XR and didn’t get the chance to explore the posters from our SPIRIT Open Call innovators? No worries: we’ve collected them all on our website! 👉Open Call 1 posters at EuroXR: spirit-project.eu/open-call-1-po… 👉Open Call 2 posters at EuroXR: spirit-project.eu/open-call-2-po…

Join the EU-Indo-Pacific Digital Partnership Conference 2025 in Singapore 📍National University of Singapore 🗓️28-29 October 2025 🔗 Check out the full program: inpacehub.eu/eu-indo-pacifi… 👉 Register here: egcp.enrich-global.eu/communities/in… @INPACE_Hub @NUSingapore @EUinSingapore

📢SPIRIT paper “Scalable MDC-Based WebRTC Streaming for One-to-Many Volumetric Video Conferencing” by Matthias De Fré, Jeroen van der Hooft, Tim Wauters, and Filip De Turck from Ghent University – imec has been accepted at ACM TOMM 2025. 📖 Check it out: spirit-project.eu/publications/

📢 We are proud to share that the SPIRIT demo paper "Demonstration of Viewport-Aware Hybrid Broadcast-Unicast Streaming for Volumetric Video" was accepted at NoF 2025, taking place on 30 September - 3 October in Montreal, Canada. 📖 Check it out: spirit-project.eu/publications/

In an engaging interview, Ali El Essaili (@ericsson) shares how SPIRIT is shaping the future of communication, the impact of the use cases and the strength of SPIRIT’s consortium. 🎥 Watch the full interview: spirit-project.eu/2025/09/12/pus… To the YT Video: youtube.com/watch?v=5Krl-j…