GSS EU Science Funding Gateway

Proposals should leverage existing open standards and technologies in the domain of eXtended Reality, combining human-machine interactions and all real, mix, augmented and virtual environments, accessibility, networks, security and privacy to provide low-cost and widely available eXtended collaborative telepresence solutions.

The proposals are expected to address several of the following points:

• Support a wide range of networking bandwidth with adequate compression transmission of information so as to optimise end-to-end quality of service;
• Overcome the limitations of the current technologies handling large number of simultaneous users;
• Support different input and output modalities as the bandwidth capacities extend (text, speech, audio, video, AR/VR, 3D, holography);
• Through open standards, support the integration of additional services such as recording and sharing meeting recording speech transcription, translation, anonymisation, summarisation, context-aware instant search;
• Optimise the results of eXtended collaborative meetings through easy access, analysis and syntheses of recordings;
• Ensure security and protect user privacy, through a mix of necessary technologies;
• Develop, document and promote open standards based interfaces (such as APIs) which can be used by third parties to further enhance the project solutions and adapt them to other environments and user needs, avoiding vendor lock-in.
• Provide systems to facilitate human-to-human and human-to-machine interaction, that allows real-time as well as offline communication;
• Apply eXtended Reality technologies to support the communication and collaboration experience;
• Apply eXtended Reality models to enhance the collaborative aspects of telepresence;
• Apply haptics devices to further improve the intuitiveness and accessibility of the solutions;

Financial support to third parties (FSTP) (see page 400 of the work programme).