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CORTEX²

COoperative Real-Time experiences with EXtended reality

We envision a world where remote collaboration is easy, efficient and accessible for all.

The mission of CORTEX² is to democratize access to the remote collaboration offered by next-generation XR experiences across a wide range of industries and SMEs.

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Our purpose is to facilitate remote collaboration between workers through next-generation extended reality (XR) technology solutions across a wide range of industries and SMEs. To this end, we are developing a highly innovative and digital XR platform specifically geared to facilitate work and social activities involving physical interaction with the environment and remote objects — from industrial cooperation to technical training and business meetings

The COVID-19 pandemic pushed individuals and companies worldwide to work primarily from home or change their work model to stay in business. Today, all the signs are that remote work is here to stay. But not all organizations are ready to adapt to this new reality, where team collaboration is vital.

Existing services and applications aimed at facilitating remote team collaboration — from video conferencing systems to project management platforms — are not yet ready to efficiently and effectively support all types of activities. And extended reality (XR)-based tools, which can enhance remote collaboration and communication, present significant challenges for most businesses.

The mission of CORTEX² is to democratize access to the remote collaboration offered by next-generation XR experiences across a wide range of industries and SMEs.

To this aim, CORTEX² will provide the following:

  • Full support for augmented reality (AR) experiences as an extension of video conferencing systems when using heterogeneous service end devices through a novel Mediation Gateway platform.
  • Resource-efficient teleconferencing tools through innovative transmission methods and automatic summarization of shared long documents.
  • Easy-to-use and powerful extended reality (XR) experiences with instant 3D reconstruction of environments and objects, and simplified use of natural gestures in collaborative meetings.
  • Fusion of vision and audio for multichannel semantic interpretation, and enhanced tools such as virtual conversational agents and automatic meeting summarization.
  • Full integration of internet of things (IoT) devices into XR experiences to optimize interaction with running systems and processes.
  • Optimal extension possibilities and broad adoption by delivering the core system with open APIs and launching open calls to enable further technical extensions, more comprehensive use cases, and deeper evaluation and assessment.

Overall, we invested nearly 4 million Euros in two open calls, that aimed at

  1. recruiting tech start-ups/SMEs to co-develop CORTEX²
  2. engaging new use cases from different domains to demonstrate CORTEX² replication through specific integration paths
  3. assessing and validating the social impact associated with XR technology adoption in internal and external use cases


The CORTEX² consortium is formed by 10 organizations in 7 countries, which will work together for 36 months.

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