Press articles on G. Papagiannakis’s research contributions
- “ORamaVR: Η ελληνική startup που αλλάζει την ιατρική εκπαίδευση”, StartupperMag#13, October 2020
- “HTC supports Geneva-based startup”, https://www.startupticker.ch/en/news/july-2020/htc-supports-geneva-based-startup , July 2020
- “L’entreprise de haute technologie ORamaVR déménage son siège à Genève”, https://www.ggba-switzerland.ch/lentreprise-de-haute-technologie-oramavr-demenage-son-siege-a-geneve/ , June 2020
- “ORamaVR enables collaborative surgical training”, com, June 2019
- “Παγκόσμια πατέντα με ελληνική σφραγίδα μειώνει τα ιατρικά λάθη | Έθνος”, May 2019
- “Εκπαίδευση σε χειρουργείο εικονικής πραγματικότητας | Η ΚΑΘΗΜΕΡΙΝΗ”, February 2019
- “NYU and ORamaVR are awarded the prestigious FARE award”,
orthofeed.com, June 2018
- “ovidVR disrupts surgical training and medical education by providing state of the art VR technology”, orthofeed.com, May 2017
- “More realistic virtual characters“, European Commission Cordis Information Service, March 2015
- “Πόσο 3D θα γίνει η ζωή μας;”, TO BHMA, August 2010
- “Une veste pour rester branché”, Le Matin Bleu, October 2006
- “FET Presence Research”, IST-FET Exhibit press report, CeBIT05, March 2005
- “H Πομπηία ξαναζεί”, TA NEA, December 2004
- “Pompeii gets digital make over”, BBC News, October 2004
- “Passe recompose, L’air de Pompei avant la lave”, Tribune de Geneve, September 2004
- “Le Tourisme en 3D est ne”, Le Matin, September 2004
- “2D3 develops real-time camera tracking for EU augmented reality project”, 2d3 press announcement, September 2004
- “Pompei se visite en trois dimensions”, Le Temps, September 2004
- “Virtual reality brings past to life”, BBC News, February 2004
- “Εικονικοί πρωταγωνιστές“, RAM Magazine, issue 138, July-August 2000
Invited Talks in Peer-reviewed, International Conferences
- “MAGES 3.0: Tying the knot of medical VR”, In ACM SIGGRAPH 2020 Immersive Pavilion (SIGGRAPH ’20), virtual media tour recap, 2020
- “XR technologies in medical training: new possibilities and potential risks”, New Technologies in Health: Medical, Legal and ethical Issues, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, 2019
- “Enabling character simulation technologies across the XR continuum”, ViMM Thematic Area Workshop, University of Geneva, Geneva, 2017
- “Gamification with virtual characters at the borders of mixed reality and algebras”, Computer Animation and Social Agents 2016 (CASA’16), Keynote Speech, University of Geneva, Geneva 2016
- “Mobile, cross-platform, life-size animated virtual characters in indoors and outdoors AR heritage sites for high-fidelity presence and interaction”, EVA-MINERVA2014, XIth Annual International Conference for Professionals in Cultural Heritage, Jerusalem, 2014
- “HDR Image Based Lighting and illumination models for dynamic and static virtual characters”, HDRi Summer School, Heraklion, 2013
- “Bridging real and virtual worlds”, Virtual World Conference, Serious Games Institute, University of Coventry 2010
- “Presence and Interaction in Mixed Reality Heritage”, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, 2010
- “Recreating daily life in Pompeii”, Keynote Speech, Arqueologica 2.0, Seville, 2009
- “Real-time realistic rendering and subtle body movements for cultural heritage virtual actors”, Keynote Speech, Cultural Convergence 06, Foundation of Hellenic World, Athens, 2006
- “Real-time frameworks for VR/AR simulation”, University of Geneva, Geneva, 2005
- “Real-time GPU based rendering”, EPFL, Lausanne, 2004
- “Virtual Cultural Heritage”, Naturalia-Artificialia-Virtualia01, University of Aegean, Mytilene, 2001
Invited Talks, International Tutorials, Summer Schools and Panels
- “End-to-end social VR platforms”, VRTogether EU Project Joint Business Clinic, Barcelona, 2020
- “XR simulation-based empirical learning for virtual surgery”, World XR Forum ‘19, Crans Montana, 2019
- “Massive Open Online Courseware in Virtual Reality”, Coursera HQ, Mountain View, 2019
- “World’s first coop VR collaborative shared surgery training”, Stanford University Med School, USA, 2018
- “Transforming Medical Education and Training with VR using M.A.G.E.S.”, Google HQ, Mountain View, 2018
- “Medical VR experiential training simulators”, Oculus-Facebook HQ, Menlo Park, 2018
- “Medical experiential training for accelerated learning in VR”, Intel HQ, San Jose, 2018
- “Transforming medical education and training with VR”, VR in Healthcare Symposium, Zurich, 2018
- “From Geometric Algebra to Psychomotor Surgical Training in VR”, University of Southern California, Institute of Creative Technologies, Los Angeles, 2018
- “Rules and Models versus Data and Machine Learning in Graphics and Vision”, (panel), CGI17, Yokohama, 2017
- “Gamified Presence in virtual museums”, (tutorial), CGI17, Yokohama, 2017
- “Mixed Reality and Gamification for Cultural Heritage”, Politecnico di Milano, Department of Architecture & Construction Engineering Summer School, Milan, 2016
- “Gamified interaction and real-time rendering in Mixed Reality for Cultural Heritage”, (ITN-DCH Summer School), co-located with CGI16, Heraklion, 2016
- “Gamification, Presence and Interaction in Mixed Reality using Geometric Algebra”, Kogacuin University, Tokyo, 2015
- “Presence and Interaction in Mixed Reality”, University of Geneva Summer School, Zermatt, 2010
- “Knowledge representation in virtual heritage: the state of the art and the emerging challenges”, (panel), Arqueologica 2.0, Seville, 2009
- “Outlooks for long term academic research in FP7 in the Networked media area”, (Invitation-only panel organized by EC), EC DG INFSO, Brussels, 2007
- “Enaction and the Concept of Presence”, (panel), Enactive06, Grenoble, 2006
- “Real-time Inhabited Virtual Worlds and Interaction: Illumination models for interactive, populated real-time virtual worlds”, (tutorial), Eurographics06, Vienna, 2006
- “State of the art in Real-time VR and AR systems”, (tutorial), CGI04, Heraklion, 2004
Awards – Distinctions and Grants
- “VR together” EU-funded project under grant agreement 762111, member of the international advisory board, May 2020
- Epic Games Mega-grant award, 92,058.00 EUR, February 2020
- European Innovation Council, Seal of excellence, July 2019, January 2020, March 2020
- AWE2019 Best Societal Impact Award, May 2019
- AAHKS-Fare Grant award, May 2018
- 2nd prize, NBG Seeds Competition, May 2018
- NVIDIA Academic partnership, h/w research grants (January 2012, January 2016)
- Euromed2014, Second-best paper award
- Marie-Curie Intra-European Fellowship Award for Career Development (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IEF), from the European Commission Research Executive Agency (April 2011)
- PhD in Computer Science with Honours, University of Geneva (June 2006)
- MSc in Advanced Computing with Honours, University of Bristol (October 1999)