Joint FascinatE and HBB-Next workshop takes place at IRT in Munich

On 18 June 2012, partners of the European projects HBB-NEXT and FascinatE got together in an adhoc workshop. The event was organized by TNO – which participates in both projects – and hosted by IRT at their premises in Munich. The workshop attendees, about 20 in total, had a fruitful exchange of views and discussed topics of joint interest, such as media synchronization, cloud processing, personalization and business models. While they concluded that the projects are rather complementary than overlapping, they also found that some technical challenges may be approached with similar solutions in both projects, e.g. for synchronizing audiovisual media or rendering in the cloud. These topics may lead to future discussions between the partners of both projects.