EUreka3D-XR – European Union’s REKonstructed content in 3D to produce XR experiences (2025-2026) is the continuation project following EUreka3D (2023-2024), funded by the Digital Europe Programme of the European Union, to develop innovative re-use scenarios and tools that enable the creation of extended reality (XR) applications, through expanding the features and services already developed and tested in the EUreka3D project.
EUreka3D supported the digital transformation of the cultural heritage sector, by offering capacity building and training, and new services, to Cultural Heritage Institutions facing the challenge of advancing in the digitization effort, especially in 3D digitization, access, storage, sharing.
The main research area of the new action in EUreka3D-XR is focused on transforming cultural contents such 2D, 3D, video, texts, maps, stories into compelling narratives and extended reality scenarios, and to deliver said scenarios to the common European data space for cultural heritage, to enrich the corpus of open access digital cultural contents online and to inspire others in experimenting new technologies.
EUreka3D-XR will deliver 5 open source digital tools that include online services and mobile apps to support innovative reuse and more compelling engagement with cultural 3D resources in various settings, collaboratively, with sustainable costs and efforts, leveraging XR and other advanced technologies applied to heritage collections.
EUreka3D-XR will handle three showcase scenarios, which will be available in the Data Space as contents and documentation:
- The virtual visualisation of the middle-ages walls of the city of Girona
- The XR narrative of excavations in process in the Bibracte archaeological site
- The creation of a new life of Saint Neophytos Englystra in Cyprus in the virtual space
EUreka3D-XR will also promote capacity building and the re-use of digitalised cultural heritage to professionals in the cultural sector and in other domains such as education, tourism research and preservation.
EUreka3D-XR factsheet:
- Project’s name: European Union’s REKonstructed content in 3D to produce XR experiences
- Grant Agreement nr: 101174054
- Start date: 01/02/2025
- EU Grant: 829.628,78 Eur
Consortium:
- PHOTOCONSORTIUM, International Consortium For Photographic Heritage (Italy) – Coordinator
- Cyprus University Of Technology (CUT), Cyprus
- Centre for Image Research and Diffusion (CRDI) Girona, Spain
- Bibracte, France
- NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS (NTUA), Greece
- Europeana Foundation, The Netherlands
- EGI Foundation, The Netherlands
- Politechnika Wrocławska Wrocławskie Centrum Sieciowo-Superkomputerowe (WCSS), Poland
- imec, Belgium
- Software Engineering Italia (SE.IT), Italy
- meemoo, Belgium
- MIRALab, Switzerland
