Welcome to the OSIRIS project, an IST-FP6 Integrated Project (IST-33799 IP)

Original System for Image Rendition via Innovative Screens

The objectives of OSIRIS are to carry out new generations of 2D and 3D projection systems, with the help of innovative components technologies. This includes the realization of a common technological platform aiming at providing solutions for a broad range of applications. (TV, Cinema, Games, Advertising, Design Centers,…)
OSIRIS has started in January 2007 and will end in April 2010.

It is the ONLY research Programme Worldwide targeting a full range of innovative projection systems:

• Free view point 3D projection technologies
  • 3D RPTV prototype with continuous parallax in 70o  Field Of View w/o glasses
    3D Digital Cinema equivalent to 10-15 views w/o glasses
• 3D Multi view Acquisition systems
  • Next generation 3D cameras
  • To feed content to above displays
    
• Ultra Slim RPTV concepts
  
  • 50 inch Screen size
    
  • HD resolution
    
  • 6 inch depth
    
  • 500 lm Brightness
• Tiled Projection Systems
  
  • Using innovative screen technologies from OSIRIS
• And developing new concepts for reducing screen gaps
• Laser Projectors
  • Using new laser modules from OSIRIS
  • And developing new concepts for speckle mitigation
  
  To fulfill these challenging objectives a technological platform is being developed including:
  

• Novel light source based on LED or Laser diodes to replace the lamp
  
• New screen approaches based on Interference lithography and holography
  
• 3D capture and rendering of natural scenes.  

• The OSIRIS projected has been selected for the Photonics Europe Innovation Village in Brussels : 2010, April 12-16

The OSIRIS project will show a compact 3D Rear Projection System without glasses and a laser illuminated LCOS projector during the exhibition at the SPIE Photonics Europe conference.

http://spie.org/x12301.xml

• 2009-11-19 - OSIRIS amendment - 4 months extension : 2009, Nov 19

The European commission agreed to the extension request for the OSIRIS project. The new duration is now 40 months ending end of April 2010. This additional time will allow to fine-tune the prototypes and to present the obtained results at different locations.

http://www.osiris-project.eu/press.php

• 3 OSIRIS papers are presented at Eurodisplay in Rome : 2009, Sept 20

- Real-Time Natural 3D Content Displaying with HoloVizio displays (Holografika)
- Laser projector speckle measurements (Barco)
- LCoS Laser Projector Barco, Osarm OS, Oxxius)

http://www.osiris-project.eu/presentations.php

• OSIRIS white papers : 2009, Sept 15

Read the available white papers on 'New Screen Approaches' , '3D Multi View Capture and Rendering' and 'Novel light sources for projection'.

http://www.osiris-project.eu/white_papers.php

• Barco announces color-stable, LED-lit rear-projection video wall display : 2009, June 16

Barco's OL video wall series with unique Sense6 calibration and stabilization technology offers truly maintenance-free viewing. The development of the color management technology featured in Barco's OL video wall series has been partly supported by funding from the EU FP6 Osiris Integrated Project.

http://www.barco.com/surveillance/en/pressreleases/show.asp?index=2347

• OSIRIS at EURODISPLAY 2009 in Rome : 2009, September 14-17

3 scientific papers will be presented at the EURODISPLAY 2009 conference in Rome. Two presentations deal with laser projection (“Laser projector speckle measurements” and “LCoS Laser Projector”) and one with real time natural 3D content displaying with HoloVizio displays.

http://www.eurodisplay.org/

• ICT Results - "No more geeky glasses to watch 3D" : 2009, June 10

Most people’s experience with 3D involves wearing tinted glasses in a cinema. But a new technology, which does not require glasses and may enable 3DTV, is being developed by European researchers...

http://cordis.europa.eu/ictresults/index.cfm?section=news&tpl=article&BrowsingType=Features&ID=90639

• OSIRIS at Dimension3 expo in Paris : 2009, June 2-4

Thomson will present the multi view acquisition work in the frame of the OSIRIS project.

http://www.dimension3-expo.com/

• 2nd EC Review Meeting : 2009, Feb 19-20

The 2 years EC review meeting will be held on February 19-20, 2009 in Brussels.

• OSRAM LED achieve outstanding performance within the EU-founded OSIRIS project : 2009, January 29

Within the R&D program, researchers at OSRAM Opto Semiconductors realised novel LED light sources. Based on OSRAM's OSTAR Projection platform, the prototype delivers 3300 red lumen, 3500 green lumen and 18 W of blue light. The challenge was to increase the possible power density by a factor of 3 while maintaining high efficiency and reliability.

http://www.osram-os.com/osram_os/EN/News_Center/Spotlights/Success_Stories/osiris-project.jsp

• HoloVizio 3D display wins Best Exhibit Award in ICT 2008 exhibition, Lyon, France : 2008, December 3

The HoloVizio 3D glassless cinema system, developed by the Hungarian Holografika Ltd. in the FP6 ICT project OSIRIS won the Best Exhibit Award Silver Prize based on visitors’ votes on the ICT2008 show organized under the French presidency on 25-27 November 2008 in Lyon.

http://www.osiris-project.eu/press.php

• OSIRIS at ICT 2008 in Lyon : 2008, Nov 25 - 27

OSIRIS will be present at the ICT event in Lyon, Nov 25-27 with two booths - F17 and C3.

The ICT 2008 demonstration will consist in showing some of the key components that are going to be integrated into the future prototypes (3D RPTV, 3D Cinema, 3D Camera, Slim RPTV,Tiled Projection display, Laser projectors).
A compact, glassless, large field of view 3D display solution is going to be presented by Holografika, that should create a Wow effect versus what is known today.
Some posters will also be presented but most of all, we are going to use the HOPS.® holografic product of Sax3D to present our achievements and discuss with the audience in an interactive way.

http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/events/ict/2008/index_en.htm

• OSIRIS presentation at DIMENSION3 expo : 2008, June 5

Thomson and Holografika presented the OSIRIS project and more specifically the work done on 3D regarding the MultiView acquisition and display approach.
Download the presentation on the Public Documents/Presentations page.

http://www.dimension3-expo.com/

• 2 OSIRIS partners founding members of the 3D@Home Consortium : 2008, Apr 24

Thomson and Holografika, two partners of the OSIRIS project working on 3D related Work Packages, have recently become members of the 3D@Home Consortium created on April 15th in Las Vegas in the frame of the NAB. 23 Companies working in 3D areas are part of the Consortium including Philips, Samsung and Disney. The mission statement of this group is to speed the commercialization of 3D into homes worldwide and provide the best possible viewing experience by facilitating the development of standards, roadmaps and education for the entire 3D industry – from content, hardware and software providers to consumers.

http://www.3dathome.org

• 1st EC Review Meeting : 2008, Feb 13-14

The 1st EC Review meeting of the OSIRIS project took place in Kuurne, Belgium. Results of the first period (year 1) have been presented to 4 experts nominated by the European Commission, who gave their comments and advices in order to further improve the quality of the work.
Generally speaking:

"The OSIRIS consortium is congratulated for the impressive work being done. The project is an important EU initiative towards future definition and acceptance of 3D technologies tackling diversified areas and challenging tasks. Some of the tasks are unique. The work is progressing well and only minor delays not expected to affect the future course of the project have so far been reported"