Scalable Platform for Innovations on Real-time Immersive Telepresence

SPIRIT at EuroXR 2025

We’re excited to announce that SPIRIT will be part of EuroXR 2025, a premier European event for the extended reality (XR) community, taking place on 3-5 September 2025, in Winterthur, Switzerland. SPIRIT will join forces with the CORTEX² project for dedicated sessions highlighting the impact of the cascade funding initiatives. SPIRIT will present a curated selection of research outcomes, demos, and practical applications from its open call projects.

Meet the partners

Eight of Europe most cutting-edge companies and universities in the field of telepresence applications are at work in SPIRIT. They bring advanced and complementary expertise in extended reality (XR) and multimedia communications.

imec
AWTG
Deutsche Telekom
Ericsson
Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich Hertz Institute, HHI
University of Klagenfurt
University of Surrey
D4P - Digital For Planet
SPIRIT - background

Our mission

Immersive technologies are changing the way we live and work as the boundaries between the physical and virtual worlds become more blurred. However, immersive telepresence applications lag behind in Europe. Building on and advancing the know-how of the consortium, SPIRIT’s mission is to create Europe’s first multisite and interconnected framework capable of supporting a wide range of application features in collaborative telepresence.

Announcing the SPIRIT Open Call 1 Winners

Platform

The SPIRIT platform is a truly distributed network and application system with interconnected sites strategically distributed between countries. ​

Use cases

SPIRIT will develop and test its own application use cases based on the distributed framework in addition to those from Open Call participants. ​

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SPIRIT Open Call 2 Winners: Interview with Andreas Vasilakis, Nikolaos Vitsas, and Anastasios Gkaravelis from PHASMATIC, and Georgios Papaioannou from AUEB-RC

Read the interview with Andreas Vasilakis, Nikolaos Vitsas, Anastasios Gkaravelis, Georgios Papaioannou, and their winning proposal: Holographic Optimized Processing Engine…
Read More SPIRIT Open Call 2 Winners: Interview with Andreas Vasilakis, Nikolaos Vitsas, and Anastasios Gkaravelis from PHASMATIC, and Georgios Papaioannou from AUEB-RC

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