AR Cleanroom Cleaning
Digitised cleanroom Standard Operating Procedures for Novartis, enabling more than 650 operators to follow validated steps through context-aware AR overlays.
Infrastructure Highlights
- AR headsets with hygiene-ready mounting kits.
- MAXVR authoring pipeline for procedural guidance.
- Analytics dashboards to track completion and compliance.
Partners
Novartis, UHasselt Digital Future Lab.
AR Operator Guidance & State Tracking
Provides frontline workers with live instructions, hand-tracking and tool detection to reduce setup time and error rates on complex assembly lines.
Infrastructure Highlights
- Industry 4.0 demo floor with configurable robot cells.
- Tool keypoint detection linked to AR overlays.
- Integration with PLC data and MES prototypes.
Partners
Industrial manufacturing partners, UHasselt Digital Future Lab.
VR Operator Training for Nuclear Sites
Immersive VR simulator that reproduces critical workflows in nuclear and med-tech environments, now extended with loop platforms for natural locomotion.
Infrastructure Highlights
- High-fidelity VR headsets with body tracking.
- Scenario engine connected to safety instrumentation models.
- Loop platform and haptic interfaces for embodied training.
Partners
Confidential industrial partners, UHasselt Digital Future Lab.
XR Welding
XR-based training for welding, allowing users to practice welding in a safe setting, preventing waste of material and resources, using both feedback and feed forward for the best training purposes.
Infrastructure Highlights
- High-fidelity VR headsets with eye tracking.
- Feedback and feed forward, based on mocap scenarios.
- Dedicated welding torch as input device.
Partners
Confidential industrial partners, UHasselt Digital Future Lab.
Hybrid Virtual Twin for Serial Robots
XR-Innovatiefonds project (POM Limburg) building a hybrid virtual twin that fuses simulation and live telemetry for serial robot arms used in manufacturing cells.
Infrastructure Highlights
- Digital twin middleware by Alexander Rausch.
- Luxonis OAK multi-camera rig for motion capture.
- MR overlays aligning robot kinematics with operator view.
Partners & Funding
Partners: POM Limburg, UHasselt Digital Future Lab
Funding: XR-Innovatiefonds (POM Limburg) + MAXVR-INFRA (Vlaamse Veerkracht)
Industry 4.0 Demo & Simulation Environment
A new demonstration floor integrating physical robot cells, custom controllers and MR overlays to evaluate assembly and logistics processes end-to-end.
Infrastructure Highlights
- Physical robots with Rovixus microcontroller-based control.
- Digital twin software for synchronized VR/MR inspection.
- Integration with make-robot spin-off trajectories.
Partners
Rovixus spin-off, UHasselt DFL, industrial pilot partners.
MAX-R Global Co-location Performances
Live demonstrations with RITCS and CREW showing how touring productions leverage Quest 2 headsets and Zotac VR GO backpacks for co-located storytelling.
Infrastructure Highlights
- Wireless VR backpacks for on-stage mobility.
- Light-field capture and projection pipeline.
- Multi-site tracking for shared audience experiences.
Partners
MAX-R consortium, RITCS, CREW, UHasselt Digital Future Lab.
Spatial Captation & Site Digitisation
Laser scanning and photogrammetry workflows delivering accurate XR replicas for civil engineering, architecture and asset monitoring use cases.
Infrastructure Highlights
- Leica RTC360 for monthly structural scans.
- Ricoh Theta Z1 and Einscan HX for detail capture.
- AR visualisations for classroom and design reviews.
Partners
UHasselt Faculty of Architecture & Engineering, industry study partners.
Immersive Learning Living Lab
Curriculum-wide adoption of MAXVR-INFRA for bachelor and master programmes, workshops and public outreach, enabling students to prototype XR solutions end-to-end.
Infrastructure Highlights
- VR headsets, Leica RTC360 and Ricoh Theta Z1 in coursework.
- Looking Glass Portrait for view synthesis assignments.
- Workshops on biofeedback, moving learning and design studios.
Partners
UHasselt programmes (Informatics, Industrial Sciences, Architecture), external workshop hosts.
Project Funding & Acknowledgments
MAXVR-INFRA Core Funding
Total Investment: €747,000
Period: October 2021 - October 2025
Source: Vlaamse Veerkracht (Flemish Resilience) via NextGenerationEU Recovery and Resilience Facility
Project Code: VV021 & VV023 - Research Infrastructure and R&D Acceleration
Supporting Programs
XR-Innovatiefonds: POM Limburg regional innovation funding
Industry Partnerships: Co-funded validation and pilot projects
Research Collaboration: UHasselt faculty cross-funding
Infrastructure Access: Academic and industry partner contributions
Institutional Support
Lead Institution: Universiteit Hasselt - Digital Future Lab
Managing Authority: EWI Vlaanderen (now WEWIS)
European Framework: NextGenerationEU Recovery and Resilience Facility
Regional Implementation: Flemish Government via Vlaamse Veerkracht
