Real-world XR innovation

The technologies developed within IRIS-XR will be validated through three real-world pilots in mental healthcare, aviation training, and automotive design. These demonstrations will showcase how advanced XR technologies can improve accessibility, performance, safety, and collaboration across diverse professional and societal domains.

This pilot demonstrates how advanced XR headsets can transform professional flight training by delivering highly realistic, cost-efficient, and environmentally sustainable simulation experiences.

Working with professional flight simulators used in both civil and military aviation, IRIS-XR integrates a new generation of XR goggles featuring ultra-low latency interaction, high-resolution displays, precision eye tracking, and AI-driven multimodal interfaces. The objective is to improve pilot training realism while supporting Competency-Based Training and Assessment (CBTA) methodologies.

The pilot will evaluate the technology across different flight and synthetic training devices, enabling realistic cockpit interaction through gaze, hand gestures, and natural multimodal controls. By replacing a greater proportion of real flight hours with immersive simulator-based training, the solution contributes to reduced operational costs, lower emissions, and increased training accessibility.

The demonstration highlights how XR technologies can strengthen flight safety, improve learning outcomes, and support Europe’s ambitions for more sustainable aviation.

IRIS-XR will demonstrate how advanced XR technologies can redefine collaborative automotive design reviews by enabling natural interaction with high-fidelity digital vehicle models.

The pilot focuses on virtual and mixed reality reviews used throughout the vehicle development process, including concept evaluations, ergonomic assessments, quality inspections, and certification-related analyses. Designers, engineers, and decision-makers will be able to collaboratively interact with digital twins that faithfully reproduce the visual quality, scale, and appearance of physical prototypes.

A key objective is to enable intuitive, calibration-free interaction through reliable gesture recognition and accurate eye tracking. This allows participants to communicate naturally within collaborative design sessions, whether working together in the same location or remotely.

The pilot will validate three review scenarios: VR interior reviews, VR exterior reviews, and Mixed Reality exterior reviews. By replacing physical prototypes with highly accurate digital representations, IRIS-XR aims to accelerate development cycles, reduce costs, and improve collaboration across distributed teams.