The agreement, announced today in the presence of the Minister for technological innovation and digital transition, Vittorio Colao, of the Mayor of Milan, Giuseppe Sala, of the Councilor for Education, University, Research, Innovation and Simplification of the Lombardy Region, Fabrizio Sala, by the Rector of the Politecnico di Milano, Ferruccio Resta, and by the President and CEO of EssilorLuxottica, Francesco Milleri, foresees an investment of over 50 million euros.
The project embraces industrial research and experimental development of devices at the basis of a new generation of wearables able to connect to the network in a completely autonomous way. A concrete and innovative project that will make it possible to develop technologies and services using a widely used and commonly used interface such as glasses.
in the Bovisa area in Milan. In this way, the University aims to reduce the distance between universities and companies, with the creation of a highly international research environment that favors synergies and transversality.
The main challenge of the project will be the defition of basic technologies from the point of view of hardware, software and applications to allow man to interact with the digital world. To do this, the industrial research activities and experimental development of the EssilorLuxottica Smart Eyewear Lab will be divided into five macro-objectives. The first objectives concern the study and development of electronic and photonic components and of algorithms which allow to acquire, process and present to the user all the information in the real world through augmented reality. The development of these hardware and software issues will make it possible in the last two objectives to integrate the technology into various prototypes of glasses, through the development of materials, charging systems and algorithms to validate their performance in real environments.
Furthermore, EssilorLuxottica and the Politecnico aim to jointly carry out an ad hoc course of study with a specialist address in the field of wearable and smart eyewear, and power the research activities of the new structure in a virtuous way. The intent is to attract young talents - students, PhD students, researchers and teaching staff at an international level - who make their energies available to this innovative project, to train new resources capable of responding to the demands of the current labor market and future.
"The agreement with EssilorLuxottica is a milestone in the development of the Goccia di Bovisa area, for several reasons ", explains the Rector of the Polytechnic of Milan, Ferruccio Resta. “The first is certainly to have an internationally recognized excellence alongside the Polytechnic of Milan, an Italian company that is synonymous with innovation, which is a great catalyst for other entrepreneurial and research realities within the district of innovation that is taking shape in the Gasometer area. The second is linked to the terrain on which we will operate: the metaverse, whose possibilities today we can only intuit, is a complex area of study and experimentation, which calls into question technological areas developed within the university: electronics , to photonics, to data science. It opens up unprecedented perspectives which are not limited to technological innovation or the development of new products, but which redesign entire processes, services and relationships. The Joint Research Center will operate on these foundations over the next five years".
“Innovation is at the heart of EssilorLuxottica's business model”, Concludes Francesco Milleri, Chairman and CEO of EssilorLuxottica. “The boundaries between the physical and the virtual are less and less definites and the perspectives presented to us are completely new and represent a unique challenge that projects us into the future. These new research models are indispensable for unlocking enormous development potential and its effects on the world of work and on the entire economic system”.
Read the press release directly on the site Essilor Luxottica
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