The call for ideas promoted by Virtual Realty Experience with UCBM and other partners
26 January 2022 - In the PRABB Conference Hall - Advanced Research Center in Biomedicine and Bioengineering of theUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, in the presence of the promoting companies and universities, the prizes were awarded to the winners of the Call for Ideas NeXt GeneRation Italy XR challenge.
NGI XR challenge is the Call for Ideas promoted by VRE - Virtual Reality Experience, the first Italian festival entirely dedicated to immersive and emerging technologies (www.vrefest.com), Teleconsys (www.teleconsys.it), innovative PMI expert in digital & open innovation, Ptsclas (www.ptsclas.com), a consultancy, innovation, finance and communication company, Archangel Adventure (www.archangeladventure.it), an Italian venture capital that proposes itself as a co-founder of innovative startups and theUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma (www.unicampus.it), which has been committed for years to promoting encounters between researchers and businesses, also with a view to technology transfer. The adhesion of theUniversity "Gabriele d'Annunzio" Chieti - Pescara.
The objective of the Call for Ideas is to select, reward and support entrepreneurial projects aimed at the development of technologies, digital solutions and innovative services with a strong technological content that can contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (hereinafter "PNRR"), the main challenge that the country will face in this and in the coming years.
NGI XR challenge: the winning projects
The jury, made up of members of the sponsoring organisations, examined the proposals received and, through a process of analyzing the business idea and evaluating the project based on ten criteria, came to select three winning projects.
Virtual Museum Platform is an Augmented Reality application developed to offer museum visitors an innovative virtual experience by involving them in a "Treasure Hunt 4.0" by adding new levels of engagement and content.
Exar4Bot is a platform dedicated to the training of autonomous robots through the digital twin of the environment and infrastructure in which they will have to operate and a specific Artificial Intelligence tool.
Morelli Tech is a Mixed Reality system supported by artificial intelligence algorithms capable of recognizing obstacles and projecting a hologram onto the windshield of the car which contains multiple information to assist the driver.
Virtual Museum Platform, Exar4Bot, Morelli Tech are the three winning projects of the 1st edition of the NGI XR Challenge, selected by the jury for having shown strong digital maturity, focusing on innovation and immersive and emerging technologies and managing to integrate deep technological expertise into the proposed solutions with a market vision directed towards the main trends, better addressing highly topical issues such as innovation and digitization of the Italian cultural context, the automation of industrial processes and safety in the automotive sector.
Two categories of prizes provided by the Call, START and RUN.
The winners will participate in a Pre-Acceleration Program lasting approximately 4 weeks, aimed at validating the proposed technologies, the products/services offered and the related business models.
At the conclusion of the Pre-Acceleration phase, the winning teams will be able to start negotiations for the conclusion of an investment operation by Archangel AdVenture to finance their development path and will be able to access a subsequent Acceleration Program lasting maximum variable up to a maximum of 12 weeks with the Promoters or their partners, also on the basis of the specific needs of the Projects and their level of maturity and proximity to the market.
