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Reimagining Tourism with In-Car AR: Das AR Experience in Timisoara
This article describes how XReco member ZAUBAR is developing AR experiences by using AI technology to facilitate the creation of AR experiences for the tourism and automotive industries.
XReco Marketplace: A New Approach to Digital Asset Monetization and Rights Management
This article describes how XReco is helping digital content distributors to finally turn their work into a sustainable business. This is achieved by merging AI-driven asset management, copyright protection and seamless monetisation with smart CC licensing, blockchain security and a dynamic marketplace.
Capturing Content for Neural Rendering
Capturing NeRF content requires planning to avoid reshoots. This guide covers key challenges like lighting and camera movement, ensuring high-quality 3D reconstructions with clear, well-lit, and comprehensive images.
XReco MVP: Democratizing 3D Model Reconstruction and Beyond
As XReco enters its next testing phase, we’re not just validating features — we’re bringing an innovative platform to life, pushing the boundaries of 3D reconstruction and beyond!
XReco Consortium´s Days in Turin: A Productive and Exciting Meeting
It happened again in February 2025. The 20 XReco partners came together again from 12 to 14 February. This time, everyone travelled to our partner RAI – Radiotelevisione Italiana in Turin. The focus was on the tastings of the latest developmets of the XReco tools.
Talking Avatar Visits XReco’s Virtual Studio
This article presents the talking avatar Guardia who visits the XReco´s virtual studio for XR trainings to enhances journalist safty.
XReco at Stereopsia 2024: Inspiring Discussions and Valuable Insights
For the XRBB, the XReco project was the centre of activities at Stereopsia 2024, with many interesting discussions about the transformative potential of XReco technology for the creation and sharing of XR content, sparking the interest of many visitors to test the Minimal Viable Product (MVP) in April 2025.
Few Shot Object Detection
Just imagine: A computer that recognizes new objects after seeing just a few examples. Sounds like science fiction? Few-Shot Object Detection (FSOD) makes this vision a reality. FSOD is an exciting area of research that is pushing the boundaries of artificial intelligence.
Maria Callas 100th Tribute – Practical Stable Diffusion, NeRF, Gaussian Splatting in a Virtual Production
XReco brought Maria Callas to the XR/AI World marking 100 years since the birth of La Divina. Our advances in Artificial Intelligence, CGI & 3D Modeling opens up new opportunities for creative entrepreneurs supported by the novel ecosystem developed within the consortium.
XReco Project presented at NUMIXLAB 2024
Over 200 international XR experts came to Berlin to discuss XR innovations, XR art and XR projects as part of NUMIXLAB. The XReco project was presented by XRBB in Berlin as one of the EU-funded projects.
Volumetric Video Immersive Scenes Reconstructed with 3D Meshes and NeRFs
Welcome to the next level of technological innovation! Imagine a world where reality merges with virtuality, where real 3D scenes come to life in digital space in a way never experienced before. The VV (Volumetric Video) system we are developing within the XReco project is redefining standards: a masterful fusion of 3D modelling, reconstruction and rendering, with fascinating applications in the world of tourism and media industry.
Next Step into the Future of 3D and XR Technologies
The EU project XReco enters its next phase. From October 15 to 17, 2024, the XReco consortium met in Madrid, this time hosted by our partners at VISYON. The 20 XReco partners from 12 European countries presented their latest advances in 3D, XR and AR media solutions, shared technology and research results. This article provides an overview of the project status and next steps.
Realistic 3D Worlds with Neural Radiance Fields
In the ever-evolving landscape of computer graphics and artificial intelligence research, a groundbreaking technology gained attention rapidly, and now is shaping the way we perceive and interact with digital imagery.
Volumetric Video Compression and Distribution
In recent years, volumetric video has gained a lot of attention and relevance, especially in the realms of virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), virtual productions and media distribution.
News with Augmented Intelligence
As part of XReco’s News Media Demonstrator, the RAI team explored how modern technology can be used to create powerful and engaging commemorations of past events.
Mixed Reality User Interface
This article delves into the convergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Mixed Reality (MR), and multimedia retrieval, culminating in the creation of (MR)²—a transformative concept seamlessly uniting the physical and digital realms.
Quick and Easy Virtual Studio Productions with XReco
Imagine you could be standing in front of a building that no longer exists. Look at it from all sides. Which one do you see? A skyscraper? An old church? As part of XReco’s News Media Demonstrator, the DW team chose the former Palace of the Republic, a building that hosted the parliament of East Germany from 1976 to 1990 in Berlin.
Exploring Seamless Data Integration with XReco’s Metasearch Service
Eviden introduces a pioneering metasearch service for the XReco project, designed to significantly enhance how users access and interact with information from multiple sources.
Licensing the Creation and Dissemination of XR Content through XReco
Explore the intersection between XR, AI and copyright law with XReco’s innovative legal research. Join IPrightsGR research path for tackling the arising copyright questions related with the licensing of creation and dissemination of XR content in the XReco context.
XReco and NVIDIA: Unified Compute Framework (UCF)
A low-code framework for developing cloud-native, real-time, and multimodal AI applications.
XReco Blockchain-Based Rights Management
The XReco project deploys several tools that aim at facilitating data sharing and fostering the creation of new content in the media domain. Generating novel content from multiple sources, especially in an AI enabled automatic (or semiautomatic) way, implies crucial challenges in terms of the definition of ownership and monetization rights, to ascertain which rights are associated with given content items, and how such content can be (re)used and monetized.
XReco and the Authoring Tool: enabling fast Workflows for XR Content Creation
The intention of the XReco project is to revolutionize XR content creation in the media industry, by providing creators with new and easier to use tools and possibilities. One example is the Unity Authoring Tool which we will take a closer look at in this article. What might also be interesting is what prompts a company such as Unity Technologies to participate in the XReco project?
Empowering XR Content Creation with the Orchestrator Dashboard
Welcome to the world of Extended Reality (XR) content creation, where efficiency and integration reign supreme. Meet the Orchestrator Dashboard, the central nerve center of the XReco platform. Join us as we explore how this meticulously designed dashboard revolutionizes XR content creation within the XReco ecosystem.
MPEG Standard for efficiently represented AI Models
Discover how the MPEG Standard revolutionizes neural network compression, enabling efficient representation of AI models for multimedia tasks. Explore the intersection of AI and multimedia with XReco in our latest blog article!
XReco, Copyright and NeRF: An Opportunity for the EU TDM Exceptions?
Learn more about the potential role of the text and data mining (TDM) exceptions under EU copyright law and their role for 3D reconstruction via Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) and similar techniques. These exceptions may provide authorisations for the usage of key content for the development of XR content and experiences.
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