Press articles
ITU researcher to spearhead Horizon Europe funded project for immersive experience of art and culture
Associate Professor Sami S. Brandt coordinates an 8.0 million-euro Horizon Europe project and leads a research and industry collaboration focused on developing mixed reality technology for the culture industry.
Finnish National Opera and Ballet joins XTREME to explore new futures for performance
The Finnish National Opera and Ballet, one of XTREME's key cultural partners, published this article at the project's launch in January 2024 — outlining their ambition to collaborate across Europe and develop mixed reality technology that brings live performance into new environments.
Could the future of AI lie in immersive reality?
In this February 2024 guest column for Silicon Republic, Dr Mairtín Cunneen from the University of Limerick — XTREME's Irish principal investigator — explores how AI is moving toward the creation of immersive virtual worlds, and why the XTREME project is working to ensure that future is built on ethical and trustworthy foundations.
CITO Podcast: University College Dublin Centre for Innovation, Technology & Organisation (CITO)
The panel was moderated by Martin Cunneen from the Kemmy Business School, University of Limerick, and brought together an interdisciplinary mix of researchers, practitioners, and artists from fields spanning AI, music, physiotherapy, and human-computer interaction.
ITU researchers want to bring classical music to you
Is it possible to use technology to bring arts and music closer to people? This is one of the purposes of the research project XTREME, which is investigating how mixed reality can be used to bring music and art experiences to audiences that otherwise have some barriers to experience them.
Forskere fra ITU vil bringe klassisk musik tættere på dig (text in Danish)
Er det muligt at bruge teknologi til at bringe kunst og musik tættere på mennesker? Det er et af formålene med forskningsprojektet XTREME, der undersøger, hvordan mixed reality kan blive brugt til at bringe musik- og kunstoplevelser til publikummer, der ellers møder barrierer for at få adgang til dem.
Tag til opera på kontoret: Markedet for mixed reality vokser eksplosivt (text in Danish)
Mixed Reality kan blive vækstmotor i den globale oplevelsesøkonomi, og der er stadig masser af uudforskede potentialer på det nye vækstmarked. Sami S. Brandt og Jari Kickbusch
XTREME – ÅTERFÖDELSEN/REBIRTH
In this piece published by MUNCH, Hodan Beegsi from the MUNCH Youth Collective shares her experience of the XTREME collaboration — guiding visitors through the XR experience, contributing young voices to the creative process, and exploring what it means to move through birth, love, and rebirth in a merged physical and digital world.