SPIRIT - Scalable Platform for Innovations on Real-time Immersive Telepresence

SPIRIT - 可扩展的实时沉浸式网真创新平台

• 批准号: 10039387
• 金额: $ 27.72万
• 依托单位: AWTG LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: EU-Funded
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10039387
• 关键词: SPIRIT; Scalable; Platform; Innovations; Real

Immersive telepresence technologies will have game-changing impacts on interactions amongst individuals or with non-human objects (e.g. machines), in cyberspace with blurred boundaries between the virtual and physical world. The impacts of this technology are expected to range in a variety of vertical sectors, including education and training, entertainment, healthcare, manufacturing industry, etc. The key challenges include limitations of both the application platform and the underlying network support to achieve seamless presentation, processing and delivery of immersive telepresence content at a large scale. Innovative design, rigorous validation and testing exercises aim to fulfil the key technical requirements identified such as low-latency communication, high bandwidth demand, and complex content encoding/rendering tasks in real-time. The industry-leading SPIRIT consortium will build on the existing TRL4 application platforms and network infrastructures developed by the project partners, aiming to address key technical challenges and further develop all major aspects of telepresence technologies to achieve targeted TRL7. The SPIRIT Project will focus its innovations in network-layer, transport-layer, application/content-layer techniques, as well as security and privacy mechanisms to facilitate the largescale operation of telepresence applications. The project team will develop a fully distributed, interconnected testing infrastructure across two geographical sites in Germany and UK, allowing large-scale testing of heterogeneous telepresence applications in real-life Internet environments. The network infrastructure will host two mainstream application environments based on WebRTC and low-latency DASH. In addition to the project-designated use case scenarios, the project team will test a variety of additional use cases covering heterogeneous vertical sectors through FSTP participation.

沉浸式远程呈现技术将对虚拟世界和物理世界之间界限模糊的网络空间中个人之间或与非人类物体（例如机器）的交互产生改变游戏规则的影响。该技术的影响预计将遍及各个垂直行业，包括教育培训、娱乐、医疗保健、制造业等。关键挑战包括应用平台和底层网络支持实现无缝呈现的局限性，大规模处理和交付沉浸式远程呈现内容。创新的设计、严格的验证和测试练习旨在满足所确定的关键技术要求，例如低延迟通信、高带宽需求和复杂的实时内容编码/渲染任务。业界领先的SPIRIT联盟将建立在项目合作伙伴开发的现有TRL4应用平台和网络基础设施的基础上，旨在解决关键技术挑战，并进一步开发网真技术的所有主要方面，以实现目标TRL7。 SPIRIT项目将重点在网络层、传输层、应用/内容层技术以及安全和隐私机制方面进行创新，以促进网真应用的大规模运营。该项目团队将在德国和英国的两个地理位置上开发一个完全分布式、互连的测试基础设施，从而允许在现实互联网环境中大规模测试异构远程呈现应用程序。网络基础设施将承载基于WebRTC和低延迟DASH的两种主流应用环境。除了项目指定的用例场景外，项目团队还将通过 FSTP 的参与测试涵盖异构垂直行业的各种其他用例。