Winterthur, 3-5 September 2025 — Representing GAIA, Uri Noy Meir and Sebastian Jung presented the research poster “Embodied Dialogue” at the 22nd EuroXR International Conference (EuroXR 2025), held 3–5 September at the ZHAW School of Management and Law in Winterthur, Switzerland. The conference featured a joint SPIRIT & CORTEX² special track, “Extended Collaborative Telepresence – How CORTEX² and SPIRIT are Advancing Innovation in XR,” which also served as the final event for both EU projects. More than 50 funded initiatives showcased results, live demos and real-world XR applications, underlining how European programmes are accelerating the next wave of extended reality.
Embodied Dialogue introduces a phenomenological test framework and an embodied-presence feedback tool tailored to SPIRIT’s mesh technology. The approach links user-centred evaluation with embodied methodologies such as Systemic Constellations and Social Presencing Theater, enabling developers and designers to assess not only system-level metrics but also the felt sense of connection—trust, openness and co-presence—during multi-participant conversations. Insights from these studies will guide human-centric improvements for SPIRIT-based applications in hybrid work and learning contexts.
“Latency and fidelity matter, but the deeper question is: can these emerging technologies help us feel one another across distance more fully?” said Uri Noy Meir. “At EuroXR we shared our early conceptual work—testing frameworks that align new tools with embodied and systemic practices. We’re beginning to see how XR experiences can carry our bodies’ presence, cultivating relational trust in remote workplaces and beyond. Our approach is simple: observe, prototype, listen, and weave together with peers across disciplines and fields.”
“Our feedback tool helps teams intentionally assess the quality of presence and moments of ‘being together’ in remote settings, informing how XR-based telepresence technologies might better support embodied practices and the social arts in virtual settings,” added Sebastian Jung.
About SPIRIT. SPIRIT (Horizon Europe) is developing a scalable, low-latency platform for real-time immersive telepresence, advancing techniques across the network, transport and application layers—together with security and privacy mechanisms—to raise the maturity of telepresence technologies across Europe.
About EuroXR 2025 & the SPIRIT–CORTEX² track. EuroXR 2025 was co-organised by the European Association for eXtended Reality and ZHAW. The SPIRIT–CORTEX² special session, “Extended Collaborative Telepresence – How CORTEX² and SPIRIT are Advancing Innovation in XR,” capped the projects’ cascade-funding programmes and showcased 50+ funded efforts through research outcomes, demonstrations and deployments.
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