IAT [Connect]: Extending realities between imec and Polo Digital ecosystems

Imec’s decision to establish a Semiconductor Research and Development Center by imec in Malaga serves as a noteworthy example of how strategic collaboration, governmental support, and proper infrastructure can promote innovation, academic collaboration and attract significant investments to leverage local talent and economic development.

This public-private partnership is focused on enabling breakthroughs towards advanced research on new materials for chips that will serve to create and support applications for a smarter and better future.

One line of these vertical applications is related to the solutions for Media & Entertainment industries, which are in constant transition by the changes in how we consume digital contents, play games, watch programs or behave and interact in the new immersive environments.

As part of the ongoing collaboration between imec and the City of Málaga, this event will be focused on the dynamization of interactions amongst different stakeholders with common interests in extended reality technologies, including companies hosted by Polo, XR Valley in Belgium and with the collaboration of Flanders Investment & Trade.

About the companies at the event

From POLO /IAT ecosystem:

· Made in Verse: XR for industrial processes

· Visitas Virtuales: Virtual visits, 360º photo and video

· Voson Engine: Immersive experiences with "free room" technology

· Yerba Buena VR: Immersive streaming, health and culture solutions

· Opposum: Virtual builders: Cultural Heritage, 3D, LIDAR, Photogrammetry

· OWO Defense: Haptic technology for tactical immersive training

From XR Valley ecosystem:

· The Pack: Digital Artists: VFX, animation, games, hybrid VR projects

· Uncanny: Creative studio: motion design and video post-production

· Spatial Dynamics: Virtual reality scenarios to evaluate employee skills in realistic, task-based environments

· Strike Force Alpha: Software products: metaverse factory, hosting, infrastructure services, livestream and video integration

· Hydra: Immersive XR and AI hardware, travel ready deployment platforms

· Altermind: Immersive brand experience studio. We design tailor-made, web-based immersive experiences that run flawlessly across all platforms

And with the presence of researchers from the University Málaga and Ghent University:

· Mobilnet: Leveraging decades of expertise in network performance, data analysis, artificial intelligence (AI), and self-organizing networks (SON), we are shaping the future of networks

· DIANA: main lines of research include Networks and Radio Technology, Human Machine Interaction, Electronic Systems Design and Electronic Art and Interaction.

· EMULAB: Human-computer interactions