Floating freely grabbable complex objects remove the barriers for understanding a CAD system.

Reducing the experience for attendees to "just visual" removes distractions from learning and engaging with the virtual content.

Mixed Reality mode grounds workers in their workspace allowing for contextual interactions to occur with the physical space such as looking at paper documentation, space constraints, and physical tools.

Developing precision chemical biotech systems like filtration units often suffers from a bottleneck in communication and understanding. The current process relies heavily on iterative work involving multiple engineering disciplines, often documented through scattered paper reports and disparate digital files. This fragmented data landscape leads to significant misunderstandings as team members switch between different software workflows, lacking a clear, shared view of the physical system they're building.

Without direct access to the physical components and the ability to visually train each other on assembly and operation, collaboration becomes challenging, hindering efficiency and potentially leading to errors. We need to find ways to centralize information and foster a more intuitive, visual approach to system development to improve teamwork and reduce the risk of miscommunication.

We collaborated with Chromatan, a cutting-edge biotech company specializing in innovative filtration systems for the biotech research and pharmaceutical industry. This partner is developing a novel system specifically designed to support a new chemical processing technique, and a key aspect of our work involved translating the initial information and learning requirements into a practical and effective solution. This included facilitating internal knowledge sharing within the biotech startup and ensuring clear communication with external pharmaceutical companies and researchers who would be utilizing the system.

Leveraging the power of modern virtual reality headsets with mixed reality capabilities, we created a shared virtual environment where multiple users could simultaneously view the CAD model of the working prototype. This allowed for a highly interactive and immersive training experience, enabling trainers to guide trainees through the system's intricacies by pointing to specific elements within the virtual model. The ability to co-locate attendees and trainees in the same physical space, without requiring bulky physical equipment, proved particularly valuable for navigating the system's large and detailed components, fostering a deeper understanding and improved retention of critical information.