As part of the “Future of Graphics and Media” program, seven projects from institutions of the Saarland Informatics Campus will be funded equally by the chip manufacturer Intel and the Saarland with a total of 4 million euros up to 4 years as part of the “Future of Graphics and Media” program.
In virtual reality or the metaverse, in many cases people not only want to be alone, but also want to interact with other users via the internet. To do this, it is necessary to synchronize the body movements of individual users and display them in the metaverse. In the “Latency Compensation for Avatar Animations in the Metaverse” project, DFKI is working together with Intel to reduce and compensate for the transmission time (latency) of body movements over the Internet in such a way that interactive applications are also possible over long distances and, for example, you can dance with a person on the other side of the world in a metaverse.
The Saarland/Intel Joint Program on “The Future of Graphics and Media” is therefore addressing the increasing complexity of generating, processing, encoding and rendering visual content in distributed, immersive and interactive real-time applications. Research into new algorithmic solutions and the co-design of hardware and software aim to reduce complexity and energy consumption, increase processing speed and achieve the same or even better quality.