Heavy machinery

Machine visualisation in VR and mixed reality

Let buyers walk around your machine at full size inside a VR headset, open it up and watch it run. With mixed reality (Meta Quest 3, Apple Vision Pro, HoloLens) the machine appears in the real room. No need to ship a demonstrator or fly the customer to your plant.

  • Full-scale presses, bending machines, assembly lines and plants
  • Exploded views and cut-aways of internal parts
  • Runs at exhibitions, in sales meetings and at the customer's site

Used for: machine tools, HVAC, plastics machinery, automation, material handling.

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In detail

More about machine visualisation in vr and mixed reality

What VR and MR machine visualisation is

We build an accurate 3D model of your machine and put it inside a headset. In virtual reality (VR), the buyer is placed in a virtual space with the machine at full size. They can walk around it, open it up and watch it run.

In mixed reality (MR), the machine appears in the real room instead, on headsets such as Meta Quest 3, Apple Vision Pro and HoloLens. Either way, there is no need to ship a demonstrator or fly the customer to your plant.

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Who it is for

  • Makers of large machines: machine tools, HVAC, plastics machinery, automation and material handling.
  • Exhibition teams who cannot bring the real machine to the show.
  • Sales teams presenting at the customer's site.
  • Training teams who want staff to learn a machine before they touch it.
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How it works

  1. We model your machine, press, bending machine, assembly line or plant in 3D.
  2. We add exploded views and cut-aways that show the internal parts, and animations of the machine running.
  3. We load the experience onto VR or MR headsets.
  4. Buyers put on the headset at your booth, in a sales meeting or at their own site, and explore the machine at full scale.
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What is included

  • A full-scale 3D model of your machine.
  • Exploded views, cut-aways and running animations.
  • A VR or MR app for your chosen headsets.

A typical VR booth setup

  • Meta Quest 2 or 3 headsets.
  • A smart TV.
  • Basic booth fabrication.

A typical MR booth setup

  • Meta Quest 3 headsets.
  • A smart display.
  • Basic booth fabrication.

You can try VR and MR machine demos at our Experience Centre in Noida before you invest.

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Where it has been used

Gandhi Automation uses a 360 VR experience to sell hangar doors at 30+ aviation exhibitions every year.

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What clients say

“You cannot photograph the scale of a hangar door. With 360° VR, buyers stand inside our installations from the booth, and we use the same experience at every show.”

Gandhi Automation

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“We opened our Vendor Conference with a life-size AI avatar on HoloBox, in front of 600+ vendors. It answered from our own project records, so what people heard was specific to their work.”

Maruti Suzuki

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“Our operators now train on a 1:1 copy of the shop floor in VR before they touch the line. Across six plants, customer PPM came down from 329 to 100.”

Tata AutoComp

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“We wanted our collection seen at full height without shipping every sample. On a HoloBox, a model walked our garments at true scale, in a fully lit hall, all day.”

Shahi Exports

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“A data platform is hard to make exciting on a show floor. The anamorphic wall did it: over 4,000 visitors came to our booth in two days.”

Experian

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“We had a long story to tell in the few seconds a visitor gives a booth. The L-shaped display carried our science, our people and our sustainability work in a way that made people stop in Cologne.”

PI Industries

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“The L-shape display linked our products to India's landmark infrastructure projects, and that story stopped visitors on a very crowded show floor.”

Gulf Oil

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“The Starflex is 24 metres long, so we could never bring it to a booth. With the touchscreen configurator, buyers build it themselves, and our sales team now uses it as their main way of explaining the machine.”

NBG

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“We took our Dojo principles out of the slides. In one workshop, our people learned by doing, across nine experiences in AR and VR.”

Spark Minda

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“Having our tractors in 3D, with AR stories for each model, gave our experience centre far more to show than a physical line-up ever could.”

TAFE

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“An air handling unit is large and technical. The 3D printed model, AR and touch kiosk let visitors see inside it in a few minutes, and they kept coming back to the booth.”

Edgetech

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“The holographic wall shows our partner logos floating in mid-air and blends into the Experience Centre's interiors, so it feels part of the space.”

IBM

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

What is mixed reality?

Mixed reality places 3D content into the real room around you through a headset, so a virtual machine stands on your booth floor next to real people. Virtual reality replaces the room completely with a 3D environment.

How can we show heavy machinery at an exhibition without shipping it?

Buyers put on a headset and walk around your machine at full size, open it up and watch it run. You show the whole machine without shipping a demonstrator or flying the customer to your plant.

Which headsets do you support?

For VR we use Meta Quest 2 and Quest 3. For mixed reality we support Meta Quest 3, Apple Vision Pro and HoloLens.

What is the difference between VR and mixed reality?

In VR the viewer is inside a fully virtual space with the machine. In mixed reality the machine appears in the real room around them.

Which industries use VR machine demos?

Machine tools, HVAC, plastics machinery, automation and material handling.

Can the same model be used for training?

Yes. The 3D machine model can also be used to build training modules for your teams.

What is included in a typical VR or mixed reality booth setup for machine visualisation?

A typical VR booth setup for machine visualisation from Metaverse911 includes Meta Quest 2 or 3 headsets, a smart TV and basic booth fabrication. A typical mixed reality booth setup uses Meta Quest 3 headsets, a smart display and basic booth fabrication. Both run a full-scale 3D model of the machine with exploded views, cut-aways and running animations.