News
Distributed and Interactive Systems group news
Sneak peek into future of cultural heritage
How can people from London and Paris visit a museum located in Amsterdam together? The MediaScape Extended Reality (XR) application might be a promising solution.
CWI and Sound and Vision open virtual museum during VR Days Amsterdam
3D video will change the way we experience cultural heritage in the future. The virtual museum of CWI and Sound and Vision is a demonstration of how virtual reality will change the …
Pablo Cesar: The Outlook for Virtual Meetups
When Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica celebrated its 75th anniversary online due to a lockdown earlier this year, two colleagues immersed in a virtual world, and cut a virtual birthday cake together. Fortunately, …
Future Computer Systems and Networking Research: A Manifesto
Future-proof digitalization requires ICT research and development, now. That’s why CWI supports CompSys’ manifesto for Future Computer Systems and Networking Research.
DIS group releases software for Social VR and dynamic point clouds
CWI's DIS group releases CWIPC-SXR dataset and software suite, advancing research on Social VR and dynamic point clouds.
AI, Media & Democracy Lab receives NL AIC Label
The AI, Media & Democracy Lab is one of the first six labs to receive the NL AIC Label. At the Lab researchers will investigate various aspects of the use of artificial …
Dis group develops Co-creation Space for digital humanities
As part of the TRACTION project, CWI's DIS group is developing The Co-creation Space, a “private social media tool" uniting media storage, sharing, and media editing capabilities of traditional social media. It …
DIS Group contributes to international standard on subjective assessment for 360º videos
Work from the Distributed and Interactive Systems (DIS) group from CWI has resulted in a new standardization item from the International Telecommunication Union.
