CORE

The consortium aims to create and invigorate an R&D centre, following the activities promoted by Ingeniarius company, whose motto has been “Thinking Beyond Engineering”, called CORE: Centre of Operations for Rethinking Engineering. CORE reflects the key element that adds innovation and research promoted by the partners, with strong past collaboration, pouring into disruptive proofs-of-concept, which aims for the industrial and commercial exploitation of knowledge associated with new technologies, with particular focus on Intelligent Systems and Robotics and Sports Engineering and Health Technologies. This R&D centre in copromotion comprises qualified human resources from Ingeniarius (ING), University of Coimbra (UC), and the Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra (IPC), in line with RIS3 priorities. This unit embodies all the innovations behind the competitive development of ING, which has progressively proved to be a differentiating factor in its context, promoting technology transfer and knowledge sharing. This research focuses on Soccer Wearable Technologies as a promising field in scientific, technological, and economic aspects. This research deals with different approaches from several perspective. For the scientific viability, it namely treats the development and the interest of the scientific community in this technology, in addition to the technological aspect in which it evaluates the hardware and software tools that are available. Concerning the economic viability, it demonstrates the interest of economic players and potential investment for future interests. This research intends to demonstrate the feasibility and technological prospect of serious games and mixed reality for future scientific aspects, mainly exploring mixed reality technologies, providing important definitions and scientific background, In addition to the technological aspect in which the software and hardware solutions related to the field of study are treated , The economic in the viability section briefly approaches some markets prospects regarding Mixed Reality Technologies and serious games, while searching for key players.