New Equipment at GET Lab

New equipment was acquired by GET Lab and was checked and explored by GET Lab researchers. It includes the wireless motion capture system XSENS MVA Awinda which will be used in Virtual Reality applications so that people immersed in a virtual world have the opportunity to have a avatar in the world and move and … Read more

ICAT-EGVE 2018

The ICAT-EGVE 2018 conference was the merger of the 28th International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence (ICAT 2018) and the 23rd Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments (EGVE 2018). The goal of the conference was to provide a unique opportunity for researchers, developers, and users to share their experience and knowledge of Virtual Reality, Augmented … Read more

Researcher’s Night 2018

Researcher’s Night, an initiative of the European Union was organised by the Research Promotion Foundation (RPF) in Limassol this year in collaboration with academic and research institutions and other local organisations. The Research Centre on Interactive Media, Smart System and Emerging Technologies (RISE) was one of the leading exhibitors with own booth themed “Technology meets … Read more

ICAT-EGVE 2018 conference

The ICAT-EGVE 2018 conference will be held November 07 – 09 in Limassol, Cyprus. This is the merger of the 28th International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence (ICAT 2018) and the 23rd Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments (EGVE 2018). Together these are two of the oldest international conferences in the world on Artificial Reality … Read more

Social Computing Special Session at CGI’18

During the CGI’18 conference, University of Geneva organised a special session that took place on the 11th of June 2018 in Bintan, Indonesia. This session was chaired by the PhD candidates Evangelia Baka, from University of Geneva and Maria Christofi, from GET Lab of Cyprus University of Technology. During this session, three presentations were carried … Read more

Career Exhibition of the Cyprus University of Technology

Research centre on Interactive media, Smart systems and Emerging Technologies (RISE) participated in the Career exhibition of the Cyprus University of Technology “Your Future 2018” by organizing a talk on “RISE: An overview and future employment potentials in emerging technologies”. The exhibition was held at the Cyprus University of Technology on April 19, 2018. The … Read more

Haptic devices and Virtual Environments

An invited talk about Haptic devices and Virtual Environments was successfully delivered by Dr. Orestis Georgiou (Director of Research at Ultrahaptics and leader of the Academic Program aimed at facilitating R&D in mid-air haptics and focused Ultrasound), on April 16, 2018 at GET Lab. During his talk, Dr. Georgiou demonstrated the Ultrahaptics breakthrough haptic technology … Read more