彩虹丰富远程协作

2023年5月18日，法国巴黎 - 阿尔卡特朗讯企业, 领先的通信供应商, networking and cloud solutions tailored to customers’ industries, 参加 SHARESPACE consortium, a 6 million Euro initiative funded by the European Commission through the Horizon Europe research and innovation programme.

SHARESPACE的愿景是创造 未来社会混合空间(SHS) shared by humans (wearing XR glasses and mocap) and avatars, where both are engaged in embodied collaborative tasks that model body movements and create interactions between the participants. This is made possible by capturing social sensorimotor primitives (actions involving both sensory and motor functions or pathways) through mobile connected innovative sensors. The environment is then reconstructed using novel 扩展现实(XR) technology.

通过认知架构, 虚拟化身将促进联合行动, distance-based learning and social cohesion in the hybrid societies of the future. The aim of the programme is to expand interaction in a virtual world, with XR technology enriching key social features of communication tailored to the participants’ personal characteristics. 未来将在卫生等部门部署, learning, entertainment, 运动和工作场所, the technology has the potential to revolutionise hybrid working and learning.

With its ability to connect in real time any person, device, process or application, Rainbow^TM CPaaS (Communication Platform as a Service) provided by ALE, 而且是为这个项目量身定做的, will allow the onboarding of avatars as a new type of endpoint, 丰富远程协作体验. This will bring an entirely new approach to the metaverse paradigm where real-time social interaction, 道德和可持续性是关键.

The SHARESPACE consortium comprises 14 organisations across seven countries that will work together for three years. 为了实现这一愿景, three scenarios will be developed by leading researchers and deep-tech companies with unique expertise in health, sport and art. SHARESPACE将提供后勤保障, administrative and technical preparation of these real-world use cases with relevant institutions. 一些例子包括:

• The pain unit of the Hospital Vall d'Hebron in Barcelona, Spain, will provide remote assistance to people suffering from chronic back pain. Public demonstrations featuring the engagement of users and communities, utilising virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR), will be presented during the World Pain Conference 2024 and 2025.
• The “Peloton自行车挑战赛” sport use case aims to open up new perspectives in sport training, sport entertainment and augmented virtuality in sport. Using personal, autonomous, and semi-autonomous avatars for optimised perceptual motor skills, amateur cyclists can learn how to ride in a virtual peloton. This will be showcased at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics and the Tour de France 2025.
• The “共享创意即兴创作” use case will allow artistic co-creation of an aesthetic environment intuitively produced from dancers' movements using AI avatars. This will be demonstrated at the Ars Electronica Festival 2024 and 2025 in Linz, Austria.

The participating academic groups, industry and clinical partners have cutting-edge expertise in all disciplines required for the successful implementation of the SHARESPACE platform, including AI, XR, 数学与控制, research ethics, 社会心理因素和技术, 健康心理学和网络心理学, 认知神经科学和运动科学. This also extends to expertise in wearables and mobile technologies, as well as the deployment of digital technologies in healthcare, sports, and the arts.

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement N° 101092889.

¹Mocap: Motion capture is the process of recording the movement of objects or people