MAX-R Project

🎬 𝗠𝗔𝗫-𝗥 𝗦𝗵𝗼𝘄𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗹: 𝗧𝘄𝗼 𝗬𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗱𝘃𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗫𝗥 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 We’re excited to share our latest showreel, highlighting the key advancements made in the first two years of the MAX-R project. 🌐 MAX-R, a 30-month Innovation Action co-funded by the European Union and Innovate UK, brings together 11 partners from across Europe to develop cutting-edge tools and innovations for creating, processing and delivering high-quality XR content. 👁 The new reel provides a glimpse into solutions developed by the consortium - real-time production tools, large-scale immersive experiences, advanced virtual production techniques and tools aiming for the general democratisation of XR content creation. From real-time colour grading and virtual asset creation to adaptive VR streaming, these advancements are setting 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗫𝗥 𝗺𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻. 🔎 With six months of the project remaining, we’re now focused on integrating and validating these tools, ensuring they meet industry needs for efficiency, ease of use and quality. ▶ https://lnkd.in/exUeAGhu Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Disguise | Foundry | FilmLight | Brainstorm | ARRI | Improbable | BBC | Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg | Animationsinstitut | Hasselt University | CREW Brussels European Commission | Innovate UK #MAXRProject #XRInnovation #VirtualProduction #EUInnovation #ImmersiveMedia #ARVR

🚀 Advancing Multi-User VR Streaming: A Successful Collaboration between UPF-WN & UPF-GTI 🎮🌐 The UPF-WN and UPF-GTI teams recently joined forces to test multi-user VR streaming using UPF-GTI’s XR creation tool, Rooms, assessing both network performance and user experience. 🔍 Key Objective: Determine how many concurrent VR users could stream smoothly over a single Wi-Fi access point and evaluate whether UPF-WN’s NeSt-VR (Network-aware Step-wise adaptive bitrate algorithm) could optimize network efficiency. 📊 What We Found: ✅ Up to 4 users: Constant bitrate streaming worked smoothly. ⚠️ 5 users: Network congestion led to packet loss, delays, and lower frame rates, impacting experience. 🔄 With NeSt-VR: Low delays and minimal losses were maintained, ensuring a seamless VR experience even under higher loads. These results highlight the importance of adaptive network-aware streaming in enabling scalable, high-quality multi-user VR. A huge thank you to everyone involved—exciting possibilities ahead! #VR #XR #Streaming #NetworkOptimization #Research #NeStVR #AdaptiveBitrate #Innovation https://lnkd.in/dtz_bkRJ

ARRI has taken big steps towards exploitation of virtual production and extended reality related developments with 3rd party professionals. The latest result is the engagement at ISE tradeshow in Barcelona a few days ago, where Samsung hosted the presentation of an LED stage of ARRI’s camera and lighting fixtures, Realtime Department’s digital experience solution and Samsung’s high quality LED screen The Wall. The full integration of those prime components to a ready-to-shoot LED stage guarantees exceptional image quality and ease of use for all corporate broadcast and media environments.   “The collaboration with ARRI, Realtime Department and Samsung has significantly lowered the entry barrier for LED production in a practical package and simplified the working method,” said André Rittner at ARRI. “This partnership brings ARRI’s award-winning equipment to the suite of studio production tools, reducing production costs without sacrificing quality.”   ARRI’s history of technical and engineering awards and Samsung’s leading LED technology will continue to present new opportunities for businesses to produce detailed, rich and high-quality visuals. #MAXR #ARRI #ISE2025 #VirtualProduction #XR #EUfunded

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We are happy to welcome our eXtended Reality EU-funded projects today in Brussels for a networking session and exchange of views. Here is part 2 of a video with all the projects attending - plenty of exciting, useful and innovative research! See my previous post for part 1 :-)

👏 Exciting news from our partner Animationsinstitut at Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg: The team is on its way to the European Film Market – EFM to present DIGITAL LOCATIONS, a platform prototype for virtual location scouting, shot planning and Virtual Production. 📍 Find them at the Innovation Hub during Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale)’s European Film Market (Feb 13-19, 2025) and experience a live demo of DIGITAL LOCATIONS, developed within MAX-R.

REMINDER: This event takes place today! The link goes live at 6 p.m., CET. When accessing for the first time, you may be asked to connect with your Google or Twitter/X account for identification. After that, you’ll be forwarded to the event page. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/ejQSmgrV For the best experience, use a PC with a proper keyboard and audio output (Chrome browser recommended). We're excited to welcome you to this virtual rave test session!

🎛️ Our partner Animationsinstitut from Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg is putting MAX-R tools to the test! Using tech developed by Improbable & the BBC, they captured a DJ set for an immersive virtual rave. Experience it yourself on Feb 11, 6 PM CET!

wgpuEngine: The Heart of ROOMS 🚀 UPF-GTI already introduced ROOMS, an open-source platform for creating 3D content directly on XR-enabled hardware. But behind ROOMS is the power of wgpuEngine—a cutting-edge open-source game engine designed for desktop, XR, and web applications, developed as part of Max-R. Built on the latest WebGPU API, wgpuEngine brings physically-based rendering, volumetric effects, image-based lighting, and gaussian splatting to cross-platform 3D applications. It supports formats like OBJ, glTF, PLY (for gaussian splatting), and VDB (for volumetric data), making it a robust solution for immersive and interactive experiences. 📌 wgpuEngine in action: ✨ Integrated with Filmakademie’s VPET for high-performance web-based 3D scan visualization in the Digital Locations project. ✨ Used in UHasselt University’s progressive glTF streaming for seamless XR scene loading. Want to dive into the code? It's open-source! 🚀 More info: https://bit.ly/40K8W0W #WebGPU #OpenSource #XR #3DGraphics #GameEngine #MaxR #wgpuEngine #ROOMS