CORTEX2 — COoperative Real-Time EXperiences with EXtended reality —, an ambitious and innovative initiative funded by the European Commission under the Horizon Europe research and innovation programme, has officially started.

Representatives of the 10 organizations that comprise our team gathered in Kaiserslautern, Germany, for a two-day kickoff meeting. We were able to meet in person, and understand better each other’s roles in the different work packages of the project, led by the Augmented Vision Department of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI).

CORTEX2 kickoff meeting in Kaiserslautern, Germany.
CORTEX2 team at the project’s kickoff meeting in Kaiserslautern, Germany.

About CORTEX2

Our mission is to democratize access to the remote collaboration offered by next-generation XR experiences across a wide range of industries and SMEs.

To this aim, CORTEX2 will provide:

  • Full support for augmented reality (AR) experiences as an extension of video conferencing systems when using heterogeneous service end devices through a novel Mediation Gateway platform.
  • Resource-efficient teleconferencing tools through innovative transmission methods and automatic summarization of shared long documents.
  • Easy-to-use and powerful XR experiences with instant 3D reconstruction of environments and objects, and simplified use of natural gestures in collaborative meetings.
  • Fusion of vision and audio for multichannel semantic interpretation and enhanced tools such as virtual conversational agents and automatic meeting summarization.
  • Full integration of internet of things (IoT) devices into XR experiences to optimize interaction with running systems and processes.
  • Optimal extension possibilities and broad adoption by delivering the core system with open APIs and launching open calls to enable further technical extensions, more comprehensive use cases, and deeper evaluation and assessment.

Overall, we will invest a total of 4 million Euros in two open calls, which will be aimed at:

  1. recruiting tech startups/SMEs to co-develop CORTEX2;
  2. engaging new use cases from different domains to demonstrate CORTEX2 replication through specific integration paths;
  3. assessing and validating the social impact associated with XR technology adoption in internal and external use cases.

Our consortium, formed by ten organizations in seven countries, will work together for 36 months to make our project a reality. Learn more about the work we will be doing on our .

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