Accelerating XR Innovation through a pan-European Lab Network: An overview of the EMIL project
Justus Blönnigen, Christopher Clarke, Andreas Dähn, Lisa Forelli, Ramyah Gowrishankar, Tuija Heikura, Volker Helzle, Paul Hine, Crescent Jicol, Alexander Kreische, Christof Lutteroth, Francisco Macia Varela, Tim Moesgen, Narcís Parés, Leszek Plichta, Dominic Potts, Eduard Schäfer, Adwait Sharma, Simon Spielmann, Juhani Tenhunen · 2024
European Media and Immersion Lab, or EMIL, is a pan-European network of extended reality (XR) labs consisting of 4 European academic institutions, with a mission to accelerate development of virtual, augmented and mixed reality technologies, content, services and applications. The 30-month project, which started in September 2022, has been funded by the European Union and co-funded by Innovate UK. This paper gives an overview of the project’s goals, its organization, and selected results that have been achieved.