Strong engagement of GET Lab with pioneers in eXtended Reality and Virtual Worlds during the EuroXR 2025 conference, held September 3-5 in Winterthur, Switzerland. Our coordinator, Assoc. Prof. Despina Michael-Grigoriou, served as the lead program chair of this international conference, which brought together leading researchers from around the globe alongside innovators from industry. This year, … Read more
We had a very special and memorable day with our beloved preschool children on March 31, 2025. Through interactive applications developed by researchers and students of GET Lab, under the supervision of our coordinator, the children had the opportunity to virtually explore a three-dimensional representation of Choirokoitia and to animate 3D characters dancing in real … Read more
Assoc. Prof. Despina Michael-Grigoriou has been elected to the Advisory Board of the European Association of eXtended Realities! The elections took place during the General Assembly of the association (November 6–10, 2024) through secret ballot. Her term will run from January 2025 to December 2027. The results were proudly announced at the Ordinary General Meeting … Read more
An Innovation Camp in Creative and Cultural Industries was organized by Junior Achievement Cyprus in collaboration with the UNESCO National Commission and took place at the Panos Solomonides Cultural Centre in Limassol on 14 November 2024. During the Innovation Day, students gathered to tackle a specific business challenge and propose solutions. It was an intensive, … Read more
The GET Lab’s coordinator, Associate Professor Despina Michael-Grigoriou has been invited and delivered a talk entitled “How to address human needs through Virtual Reality”, hosted by the Assistant Professor Domna Banakou at New York University Abu Dhabi. The invited talk took place on 24th of October, 2024 and was attended by the NYUAD staff and … Read more
Α new wearable haptic device designed and developed through the PhD work of our PhD student Ali Najm who is conducting his PhD at our GET Lab. The modular design, of our developed system namely HRH device, supports a wide range of actuators, enhancing its versatility for various applications. A comparison of our proposed system … Read more
A new European project for our lab entitled “Restorative Effects of Haptic and Visual Sensory Supplementation of Nature Sounds in VR of Nature for Deaf people”, with the acronym ReSens-Nature, begun in September 2024. The ReSens-Nature project aims to investigate the impact of nature sounds within Virtual Environments on people with hearing impairments in a … Read more