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Updated Apr 29 2021 FROM REALITY TO VIRTUAL REALITY CUSTOMER SEGMENTS • Simulation and surveillance • Planning and Design • Training • Maintenance • Gaming and Entertainment FINNISH RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT SCENE

VTT Virtual and Augmented Reality CIVIT TUT Centre for Immersive Visual Technologies Virtual and augmented reality, immersivity, optics and photonics, computer vision, UEF Institute of Photonics pattern recognition, signal analysis, CVPRL LUT Computer Vision and personalized wellness solutions, Pattern Recognition Laboratory spatial audio, psychoacoustics, virtual acoustics, human-technology interaction, CMVS The Center for Machine Vision and inclusion of impaired user groups Signal Analysis, Oulu UBICOMP Center for Ubiquitous Computing, ITEE Faculty, Oulu SPA Aalto University Department of Signal Processing and Acoustics TAUCHI Tampere University Tampere Unit for Computer-Human Interaction TUAS Futurististic Interactive Technologies Turku SELECTED XR DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS Humor HUMan Optimized xR • University of Oulu Fractal A Cognitive Fractal and Secure EDGE based on a unique Open-Safe-Reliable-Low Power Hardware Platform Node • ECSEL Joint Undertaking • University of Oulu ReVision Re-Engineering Retinal Imaging with Photonics and Computational Science • LUT School of Engineering Science • University of Eastern Finland • University of Tampere SELECTED XR DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS

Helsinki XR Center is an incubator for talent in the AVR Ecosystem incubated multidisciplinary field of virtual and augmented reality (VR & AR). businesses to join together to seek new and disrupting existing markets, establish co-operation between companies Finnish Virtual Reality Association (FIVR) and public organizations. aims to advance virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) development and related activities in Finland. Virtual Reality Finland ry organizes events, supports VR and AR projects and shares information on the Yle Beta is an icubator for next generation state and development of the XR ecosystem. media experiences. Photonics Finland is a technology-oriented Nordic XR Startups is an early-stage association that drives the photonics industry in Finland by Investor and accelerator for XR startups connecting Finnish photonics companies, research centers, and public authorities. FINNISH SUCCESS STORY SINGLE-LAYER MAGIC The breakthroughs we are working on at Dispelix will fundamentally change the way nanophotonics are designed and manufactured. FINNISH SUCCESS STORY AIR TRAVELLERS STEP INTO THE HEALING EXPERIENCE OF FINNISH NATURE Aukio welcomes visitors of Helsinki Airport with an immersive and interactive experience where nature plays the leading role. It gives a calming, relaxing and yet inspiring and unforgettable experience for the visitors.

Picture: Finavia FINNISH SUCCESS STORY HOW KIA MOTORS IS STREAMLINING CAR DESIGN WITH XR “Before, reviewing a car model with design management meant flying to Korea and took at least four days,” said a Kia design executive. “Now, I can do it in one hour.”

Picture: Varjo FINNISH SUCCESS STORY VIRTUAL LIVE PLATFORM: JVG MAY DAY CONCERT

Together with the City of Helsinki, Zoan created a virtual concert in Helsinki’s digital twin to celebrate May Day. With 1,4 million views it was the largest online-event in Finland and made up for live May Day celebrations cancelled due to COVID-19.

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OUR SOLUTION IDEAL CLIENT Our laser and laser projection solutions are We make custom application-specific based on our proprietary frequency-stabilized solutions to medium and large enterprises laser technology and piezo-electric optical manufacturing systems and instruments in scanner technology which enable fabrication consumer electronics, automotive and of market-beating high-volume projection biomedical industries. and imaging products. Our solutions are especially suitable for holographic displays COMPANY and multi-wavelength instruments. Brighterwave develops and sells innovate laser and laser projection solutions. We are COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE located in Tampere. We help our clients Thanks to our innovative laser platform we create new products loaded with competitive offer ultra-compact lasers and laser advantages. We provide high quality and projection solutions having World's highest volume through our world-class brightness, highest efficiency and the best manufacturing partners. image quality in terms of contrast, color gamut stability and speckle contrast.

Tomi Jouhti [email protected] +358 40 753 1224 www.brighterwave.com BEST DISPLAYS FOR AR

OUR SOLUTION Quality – Dispelix technology is designed using materials and processes that are well Dispelix is focused on the highest established and scalable ensuring the performance waveguide displays that meet highest yield, quality, and lowest risk during the strictest demands. Together with our manufacturing. partners, we solve the most complex problems enabling our customers to create IDEAL CLIENT AR solutions that change our view of how we experience the world. Any organization who require AR displays for consumers or enterprise customers. We will COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE focus on OEM’s, ODM’s, and Platform Owners. Form – With the Dispelix single-layer displays, or our custom-built displays, our COMPANY customers have the thinnest and lightest displays in the world to meet the needs of Dispelix is the world's premier waveguide consumers and enterprise. display OEM offering the highest quality displays and know-how along with complete Function – Dispelix offers our customers the solutions partners who represent the entire highest image quality optical performance supply chain and AR ecosystem. with a wide range of field of views.

Riku Rikkola [email protected] +358 50 470 9800 www.dispelix.com THE CLEAN FUTURE OF GLASS PROCESSING

OUR SOLUTION glass processing solution available in the market. Glaser redefines the traditional processes in the glass industry by eliminating the most IDEAL CLIENT energy-intensive and polluting production phases such as breaking, grinding, washing Glaser can be used in various industry and drying. Glaser cutting produces smooth segments, including automotive, and transparent edge, which is stress-free construction, and medical applications. XR and therefore requires no post-processing. equipment manufacturers represent our ideal For the XR industry this means excellent client profile in the consumer electronics image quality with just a portion of segment, as Glaser enables free-form glass production costs. cutting with high speed and excellent edge quality. COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE COMPANY We provide all-in-one type of machinery, thus strongly reducing the process-related Hypermemo is a privately owned startup capex and the maintenance-related opex. company with strong scientific background Our technology also eliminates the majority and unique know-how in industrial CO2 of waste (small glass chips), which is a lasers. The company is backed by Finnish VC heavy pain for the industry. So Glaser is the funds and European Innovation Council. most cost-effective, clean and sustainable

Erik Raita [email protected] +358 40 593 8142 www.hypermemo.fi FLEXIBLE LIGHT GUIDING

OUR SOLUTION IDEAL CLIENT Nanocomp offers several optical film Our optical film solutions are ideal for display solutions with micro- and nanostructured manufacturers and their related supply surfaces for applications in consumer chains. Nanocomp focuses on the electronics. manufacturing of micro- and nanophotonics products for the consumer electronics, laser COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE sensing and special lighting sectors. Our solutions feature nano- or microscale patterning. The production is based on the COMPANY roll-to-roll (R2R) UV imprinting process. All Nanocomp is a global forerunner in our processes are carried out in-house. micro- and nano-photonics design and manufacturing, with production based on the roll-to-roll process.

Matti Eronen [email protected] +358 400 860 287 www.nanocomp.fi RUGGED AR SOLUTIONS

OUR SOLUTION IDEAL CLIENT We offer a base hardware platform with AR Civil Services, Forestry, Oil rigs, Mining, module and an assortment of sensors. AR Security and Defense. Software services and subscriptions for our platform. Customization of the existing COMPANY hardware platform if needed to suit every We're an international team of six people purpose. Integration of other systems with based in Helsinki and Espoo, all from our platform. engineering backgrounds with a passion for Augmented Reality. We've mostly been COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE focused on presenting our pilot to Defense We believe AR is not a solution onto itself forces and are now trying to broaden our but integrated with the right sensors and market to the industry. systems can provide fluid, mobile, and uninterrupted workflow. We go the extra mile to consider our customer's needs above all and offer rugged hardware solutions that can be dropped, used in the rain, in dusty environments, and easily maintained.

Yani Mustapha [email protected] +358 45 625 3959 www.reski.fi HOME OF CUSTOMIZABLE EYE-TRACKING

OUR SOLUTION COMPANY SeeTrue Technologies serves industrial SeeTrue Technologies is based on extensive partners with customizable eye tracking research and know-how from the Finnish solutions. photonics cluster. Founded in 2018, the company created a unique patent-pending COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE optical and computer vision solution for robust eye tracking, allowing us to embed Our technology offers high robustness, the technology to challenging environments. customization, full API access, and fast prototyping cycles. The system requires no re-calibration, works with most users and BUSINESS AREAS eyewear, has tolerance against system HW technology platforms - Medical / slippage. Healthcare IDEAL CLIENT The solutions are suitable for head-mounted sensor and display environments. Potential and existing customers are mostly from foreign markets and include at XR head set developers and optical systems manufactures such as microscope developers.

Roman Bednarik [email protected] +358 41 430 6116 https://www.seetruetechnologies.com/contact/ HIGHEST-PERFORMANCE XR FOR PROFESSIONALS

OUR SOLUTION resolution (>70 ppd) and the comfortable headsets enable use for hours on end with Varjo's human-eye resolution XR/VR no simulator sickness. headsets, the Varjo XR-3 and VR-3, accelerate professional XR/VR adoption and IDEAL CLIENT bring immersive computing to every workplace. They deliver unsurpassed visual Varjo's solutions deliver unsurpassed visual fidelity across industries where absolute fidelity for all industries and professionals precision is necessary, including training and requiring absolute precision, such as training simulation, design, engineering, medical and and simulation, design, engineering, medical research, empowering professional users to and research. perform at their highest level. COMPANY COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE Varjo (pronounced var-yo) is headquartered Unlike competing mainly consumer-first in Helsinki and is creating the world's most offerings, our XR/VR solutions are tailor- advanced virtual and mixed reality hardware made for professionals. XR-3 provides the and software for professional use, merging industry's only photorealistic mixed reality the real and virtual worlds seamlessly powered by video pass-through across the together in human-eye resolution. widest field of view for XR (115°). Both XR-3 and VR-3 have the industry's highest

Varjo Sales [email protected] +358 40 130 6998 www.varjo.com MIXED REALITY VALUE CHAIN

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OUR SOLUTION This in turn results in cost-effective and fast productions. Just the way our clients like it! Arilyn offers Arilyn Manager AR CMS for creating and publishing AR experiences. IDEAL CLIENT Creating augmented reality has never been this easy! Arilyn Expo is a tool for creating Augmented reality and XR is a perfect media virtual showrooms and other virtual spaces for brands wanting to differentiate and that work straight on a mobile browser, engage in a crowded media space. desktop and VR glasses. In addition, Arilyn Customers spend time with the brand, and offers services ranging from concepts to will be left emotionally connected to the design and production to global AR brand. We also have a sweet deal for marketing campaigns. agencies – They can get our tools and our expertise for free! COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE COMPANY Arilyn is a global pioneer in developing AR technologies. We are also lean and agile. Our Arilyn is a Finnish company founded in 2013. customers can request rapid prototypes, and We currently employ 25 professionals and a we can develop custom features for our vast crowd of freelancers in Helsinki and clients. Our tools have been developed for New York. Arilyn has a partnership with the creatives, which means no need for coding world's biggest packaging manufacturer CCL and no development costs. to provide connected packaging for some of the world's most recognizable brands. Emmi Jouslehto [email protected] +358 40 130 6998 www.arilyn.com WE MAKE YOUR DATA WORK FOR YOU

OUR SOLUTION IDEAL CLIENT We bridge the people and the digital Our products are used in the digitalizing environment in the workplace. Our intuitive industry and for example in maintenance solutions are used for real-time process and field service. We're sector-agnostic monitoring, machine control, worker because our solutions add value across all guidance and training, as well as for enabling manufacturing and service businesses. remote collaboration and assistance. Our aim is to help people do better, learn faster, and COMPANY stay safer at their everyday work with the The augmented reality software company help of augmented reality. was founded in 2012 with roots deep in academic research. Our headquarters are COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE located in Oulu, Finland, the “Silicon Valley” With a strong research background and a of the Nordics. In addition, we have a unique team of talented experts we develop presence in Taiwan, Japan, and Kenya. We most of the augmented reality technologies serve our customers and are operating all in-house and patent our key innovations. We over the world. are recognized for the ease-of-use of our products and are a trusted companion in developing solutions that meet our customers’ needs today and tomorrow.

Eve Lindroth [email protected] www.augumenta.com BRINGING THE FUTURE HERE FASTER

OUR SOLUTION IDEAL CLIENT Basemark provides Rocksolid Engine, a high- Our ideal client wants to develop systems performance real-time parallel computing and applications for multiple accelerated and graphics software toolkit for cross- computing & 3D graphics hardware platform acceleration of machine vision, AI platforms. algorithms and 3D rendering. Basemark serves the silicon, edge and automotive COMPANY industries with optimization services and Basemark helps customers to create Hardware Performance Benchmarks for 3D products that run faster, consume less power AR/MR, Autonomous Driving and high- and produce a premium-quality visual performance computing systems. output. Basemark is an industry leader in mission-critical, real-time compute and COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE graphics software. A long track record of working with the chipset industry to optimize 3D rendering and parallel computing applications on the driver level, combined with specific expertise in 3D user interfaces and Autonomous Driving.

Sami Niska [email protected] +358 50 487 6582 www.basemark.com GLOBAL LEADER IN 360/ VR VIDEO PRESENTATION

OUR SOLUTION IDEAL CLIENT The Orion360™ engine was developed and Our technology is powering industry-leading optimised to be an efficient and light-weight applications ranging from simple video solution for 360/VR video playback and experiences all the way up to the fully interactive 3D menus. It runs smoothly on featured video catalogue apps integrated to smartphones, tablets, VR headsets, smart corporate backend systems. You have the TVs, web browsers and even on embedded story; we make it real. computers in industrial machines. COMPANY COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE Use case analysis, data collection, algorithm Our team is highly experienced and has a design, simulation & implementation. Mass strong track record of scientific and optimisation, verification, and user commercial success: scientific publications, experience. We know what is feasible and international patents, and real-world employ scientific methods to create an implementations with over one billion users. algorithm that works outside as well as The Orion360™ engine, the core of our inside of the lab. solution for VR video, is the result of long- term R&D work utilising state-of-the-art sensor fusion and visualisation algorithms.

Juha Kela [email protected] +358 40 769 4061 www.finwe.fi UNIVERSAL COLLABORATION PLATFORM

OUR SOLUTION IDEAL CLIENT Glue is a universal collaboration platform for Our target customers are enterprises with virtual, face-to-face -like collaboration for dispersed, high-performance teams who organizations and teams around the world. It have a need to come together to learn, is a shared virtual environment where share, plan and create. participants project their human presence to interact with others and access a complete COMPANY set of collaboration tools for effective live Glue helps global teams to collaborate in collaboration. Glue can be used on VR, more productive and sustainable ways using desktop and mobile. a cloud-based virtual collaboration platform. Our journey began 15 years ago as COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE animation and XR studio and now we are Glue is one of the pioneers on multi- leveraging our renowned digital participant virtual collaboration. With the craftsmanship to take remote collaboration past 5 years we have focused on building the to the next level. best human remote presence, comprehensive collaboration tools and secure, scalable and customizable platform. These focus areas have served us well as we are seeing large multinational organizations like Microsoft, KLM, T-Systems and BSG Platinion choosing to work with Glue. Jussi Havu [email protected] +358 45 216 8841 www.glue.work LOCALIZING DIGITAL TWIN WITH ANY DEVICE

OUR SOLUTION IDEAL CLIENT Immersal provides an open cloud service for With our AR@5G we enable the 5G operators AR developers to create and share their to take ownership of the emerging Spatial Localising Digital Twins. For 5G operators we AR value chain instead of being just a offer a scalable platform with centrally pipeline between the user and the operated powerful load balancer and application provider. distributed low latency MEC architecture. Our "cloud service in a box" for Enterprises has COMPANY all the needed Localizing Digital Twin Immersal Oy is a Helsinki, Finland based operations in a simple to manage and secure scale-up. The company has world leading to operate package. Technology, Products and Services for creating and managing the Localising Digital COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE Twins. Immersal Localisation works both on-device and on-server which is requirement in any experience larger than room-scale. Our mapper and localiser works on all relevant operating systems. Immersal AR@5G is the only Localising Digital Twin Platform available for mobile operators.

Anttoni Vesterinen [email protected] +358 40 750 1717 immersal.com MEASURING SMART FUTURE

OUR SOLUTION in China • 9/10 largest smartphone companies as customers including Google OptoFidelity has been delivering AR and VR and Samsung • Strongest credit rating AAA test solutions since 2013. Our systems focus on measuring HMD performance in both IDEAL CLIENT spatial and temporal test categories. This OptoFidelity's ideal AR/VR-customer is any allows manufacturers to optimize the quality contributor for AR/VR head mounted display of the hardware and the software in their perceptual quality. Customer can be systems to achieve the best possible component provider, material provider, immersion and presence. contract manufacturer, ODM or the OEM. COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE Anyone who wants to improve and enhance their end user experience. • Key patents and IPR in AR VR HMD testing and performance measurements • Working COMPANY with TOP 3 AR/VR industry leaders for OptoFidelity is an agile measurement several years • 15 years of expertise in automation partner with a wide range of precision high-volume test automation, expertise in smart device testing from R&D metrology, software and mechatronics • Off- concepting to smart manufacturing. the-shelf products and tailored test solutions • Engineering services • 18 support and service teams in Europe, USA and China • Own manufacturing in Finland, Estonia and

Lasse Lepistö [email protected] +358 40 741 1221 www.optofidelity.com X-REALITY SOLUTIONS FOR YOUR BUSINESS

OUR SOLUTION COMPETITIVE Softability offers high-quality software ADVANTAGE development and testing services for We have more than twenty years of customer assignments, as well as X- experience in cooperating with Reality projects for customer needs. manufacturing companies and more Our XReach solution enables modern than five years of experience in X- video-assisted remote support on a Reality solutions. Combining the two global scale. into viable businesses is our specialty. Softability is one of the leading Our operations are agile and reliable. providers of Augmented (AR) and We will be happy to guide you from Virtual (VR) Reality solutions in beginning to end with the adoption of Finland. We help companies in the new technology to get the most out of manufacturing industry develop their it for your business. operations with new technologies, like AR, MR and VR. These new COMPANY technologies create a competitive Softability is an innovative, growing advantage for companies that utilize and profitable software house located them, including cost savings, in Finland. We have achieved three enhanced productivity and faster years in a row Great Place to Work - training. certification. Our customer satisfaction rate in 2019 was 4,4 / 5. Satisfied employees guarantee high quality projects and satisfied customers. Mikko Luukkonen [email protected] +358 50 554 3652 https://softability.fi/en/ TIETOA WAY OF DOING THINGS

OUR SOLUTION IDEAL CLIENT Tietoa XR is an ongoing open source -based Ideal client is an organization with a business development with important key features of reason to communicate using 3D models of mixed reality: - no install > direct access on objects, products or spaces at easy and HTTP URL addresses - works computers, secure enough manner. Ideal client is also headsets and mobile devices - has interested in involving real salespersons as reasonable data security - tested so far on avatars in remote sales presentations on 17 simultaneous online avatar users mixed reality experience (opt. headsets). Additional features: - compatible to unlimited size 3d model streaming solutions - COMPANY compatible to future AR solutions Tietoa is a consultancy company backed up with software skills. Our services improve the COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE fluency and productivity of real estate We deliver adoptable XR solutions on HTTP development, design, construction and standard aimed to satisfy demanding use marketing. We develop, consult, coordinate cases where company data security policies and train. We have been operating since are often the showstopper for stand alone 2000 and employ 30 top professionals. solutions. We don't install anything, and traffic is firewall and VPN friendly so that most use cases are 100% successful from the get-go.

Tomas Westerholm [email protected] +358 50 514 3390 https://tietoa.fi CRAFTING YOUR IMMERSIVE FUTURE

OUR SOLUTION technologies including 5G, AI, ML, NLP, data, IoT and blockchain. We take Enhancing operations efficiency & design thinking and lean startup customer experience by integrating approach seriously. We always keep immersive dimension to traditional the balance between human, business processes. Our solutions match user and technology to support our clients and business needs, offering in all the dimensions. sustainable approach to solving challenges across all industry verticals. IDEAL CLIENT The key focus areas include strategy development, XR training & multi-user All sectors and departments with collaboration, remote assistance & digitalisation high(est) up on the guidance, data-infused digital twin & agenda. marketing. COMPANY COMPETITIVE TietoEVRY is a leading digital services ADVANTAGE and software company, creating digital advantage for businesses and society. We unlock top Nordic expertise, Headquartered in Finland, TietoEVRY combined with near- and off-shore employs around 24 000 experts capabilities. Our extended team has globally, and serves thousands of deep understanding of spatial enterprise and public sector customers computing as well as adjacent in more than 90 countries. Ksenia Avetisova [email protected] +358 46 811 4913 www.tietoevry.com/xr EXPERTS IN REAL-TIME 3D RENDERING

OUR SOLUTION other solution simply offers anything even remotely close. SceneStream development platform is a comprehensive set of tools for optimizing IDEAL CLIENT and delivering your terabyte-scale 3D content in full fidelity. It suits use cases from Large enterprises that can dedicate R&D 3D mapping, autonomous driving to city budgets to develop end-to-end solutions on visualizations and beyond. Visibility SDK top of our platform to solve large enables real-time rendering optimization undertakings in autonomous driving, 3D through various spatial queries performed in mapping, city visualization and so forth. runtime and is used by the largest gaming Smaller enterprises that deal with the 3D companies in the world. content and have to spend time manually optimizing content. COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE COMPANY Umbra has built a solid foundation of expertise over the last 15 years working with Umbra is an expert in real-time 3D the most demanding clients when it comes rendering. Founded in 2006, Umbra has its to real-time rendering. This has helped roots in the Finnish Demoscene of the 90s. Umbra develop proprietary algorithms, Today, 30 people strong, with 90% of the deploy products on top of them and offer staff being engineers. Umbra serves some of services that enable such large-scale and the largest corporations on planet Earth with high-fidelity 3D content rendering that no its product offering.

Antti Ylimutka [email protected] +358 40 726 8383 www.umbra3d.com PARTNER FOR THE AGE OF IMMERSIVE INTERNET

OUR SOLUTION technologies all the way to WebXR, high-end VR/AR and photorealistic rendering. Wakeone can design, develop and deploy solutions for the immersive internet. We IDEAL CLIENT have cloud-technology knowledge to build on, long record of user experience driven XR Ideal client for our services is a high- solutions, large team of 3D artist and technology company with complex solution software developers, years of service and for global audience. With our experience and business design experience and an in-sights from this area we can provide the established culture of delivering value fast, most impressive and beneficial solutions for be it design prototypes or deploying code for our high-technology clients. high-technology companies. COMPANY COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE Wakeone has 45 experts located in Helsinki Wakeone has and unique combination of and Tampere regions. Wakeone can design, technology experts, cgi-artist and concept develop and also support (hosting and designer to develop unique solutions for our service desk) solutions for our clients. clients on the high-technology industry. To develop our services we use a wide array of technologies reaching from AWS/Azure could technologies to modern web front-end

Tommi Palvimo [email protected] +358 50 353 5173 www.wakeone.co MIXED REALITY VALUE CHAIN

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OUR SOLUTION pedagogy 5) Experience 6) Enable remote teaching with AR/VR for learning hands-on 3DBear provides everything you need to skills. build your own virtual learning environments. This includes proprietary and IDEAL CLIENT partner software, and pedagogically certified 3DBear Academy approach for training A vocational training institute or career and educators and co-developing content for technical education school who wants to be teaching without the need of learning how to able to teach any subject remotely when it e.g. code in Unity and Unreal. Anyone can has not been possible to previously to do build their own virtual learning environments that. Applicable to more than 400 different with 3DBear! fields. Willing to invest to implement teaching with AR/VR and reap the benefits. COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE COMPANY 1) Teacher-controlled content: you build your own AR/VR environment to match your 3DBear is top 8 XR education in the world as teaching or training needs 2) Integrated end- recognized by Bill and Melinda Gates to-end experience: you get everything you Foundation, and Google and Apple need to use virtual learning enviroments recommended remote teaching solution. from 3DBear 3) Ease of use: no prerequisite 3DBear is a born global ed-tech star computer skills needed 4) Higher order skills originating from Finland and it has offices in Helsinki and New York.

Jussi Kajala [email protected] +358 50 561 5411 www.3dbear.io VIRTUAL REALITY. REAL SUCCESS.

OUR SOLUTION We can clone your production plant into a virtual reality environment and enrich the We offer solutions for virtual reality, model with IoT data, so you can lead your augmented reality and laser scanning using operations effectively, regardless of your our own collaboration platform called Design location. Space. By simulating your equipment and machinery Our Design Space collaboration software with real-world physics, you can train your expands your CAD software, makes your employees safely. own work smoother and adds value to your clients with the help of virtual reality. While We build prototypes, model environments Design Space has been developed to and visualize your products and ideas so that generate substantial cost savings, especially reality never again catches you, your team or in industrial design and engineering, anyone your customers by surprise. working with 3D data can take advantage of the software. COMPANY 3D Talo offers virtual and augmented reality COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE solutions to develop your business. As a As a technological innovator and a leader leading technological partner, we make sure within the field, we are your top choice as a your business has the latest and most business partner in industrial and factory innovative solutions in use. planning, product development, design and area development.

Tatu Säisä [email protected] +358 50 561 5411 www.3dtalo.fi VISIONS OF TOMORROW - ENGINEERED TODAY

OUR SOLUTION IDEAL CLIENT Our Visualization Services, also known as Elomatic currently operates in marine & Elomatic ViSU provides a comprehensive offshore, machine & equipment offering of VR, AR & MR productions that manufacturing, and process & energy supports our customer's development, industry. However, our Visualization Services manufacturing and operations, enabling are suitable for all industries that want to efficient communication, decision-making enhance their competitiveness and utilize the and training. We offer concept designs, emerged XR market to their advantage. virtual prototypes, sales configurators, simulators, training environments and COMPANY operational digital twins. Elomatic is a privately owned company from Finland founded in 1970 by Ari Elo. We have COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE over 1100 highly qualified professionals. Our As an engineering company, we are involved mission is to develop top technical know-how in our customer's planning and development, for our customers' benefit. Improving our giving us deep industry and product customers' competitiveness is what we do. knowledge. We have professionals for all major CAD software, reality capture and technical analysis. These multiple content sources and our visualization expertise enable realistic and accurate XR content.

Jani Moisala [email protected] +358 50 381 8181 www.elomatic.com, visu.elomatic.com WHEN THERE IS XR, THERE KIWIS ARE!

OUR SOLUTION IDEAL CLIENT MeKiwi produces custom made XR solutions, Ideal clients are SMEs and enterprise tailor made for clients' needs. Thanks to our companies that want to adopt VR trainings team of experts, MeKiwi can complete a wide and simulations for improving quality, saving range of XR (AR/VR/MR) projects, fully in- time and decreasing costs. MeKiwi usually house, from concept creation until delivery. works with clients who have addressed a We focus on enterprise XR software, such as need or an issue and assist with the best XR device/ gadget simulations as well as solution. personnel trainings in VR/MR. COMPANY COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE MeKiwi is a VR publisher and XR developer MeKiwi offers a wide range of services under focusing on custom built XR software for B2B the same roof, from graphics designing to 3D clients. We have one of the largest XR modeling, from game design to execution in development teams in Finland and we have XR- experts of gamification. Client does not our own VR game development & publishing have to know the details; We turn ideas into section. We enjoy creating creative AR concepts, and concepts into products. experiences for SMEs, XR simulations and MeKiwi is an Oculus ISV Program partner MR trainings. and is one of the very few XR developers that can utilize the world's most advanced headset Varjo XR-3.

Merih Arikkök [email protected] +358 44 751 0096 https://mekiwi.org PIONEER OF NEUROREHABILITATION

OUR SOLUTION IDEAL CLIENT With our VR-evaluation product Arvo Our service is designed for diagnosis and diagnosis process is made easier with treatment of neurological challenges (e.g. quantitative and objective data. After aphasia). Easy-to-use exercises serve diagnosis rehabilitation can be done with our therapists and rehabilitees in the fields of VR-rehabilitation product Koto, which offers speech therapy, neuropsychology, pre-made exercise packages to several occupational therapy and physiotherapy, different diagnoses. With VR-evaluation it is both remotely and during rehabilitation easier to frequently evaluate effectiveness of appointments. rehabilitation and medication. COMPANY COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE Peili Vision was founded in 2015 based on Core team, advisors, customers and the idea of helping people in their collaborator researchers are key opinion rehabilitation process with the latest leaders in their fields and they hold the best technology - by utilizing Virtual Reality. Our possible skills and knowledge available. We mission is to improve neurological are very hard focused on research and we rehabilitation processes from diagnosis to are able to develop products in close rehabilitation and evaluation with our VR collaboration with our customers with agile solution. methods. With our new products we stand out from the crowd with our unique and groundbreaking products. Jussi Auvinen [email protected] +358 50 376 7150 https://peilivision.fi/en AUGMENTED REALITY GAME EXPERIENCES FOR FANS OF ACTION SPORTS

OUR SOLUTION sports communities that find novel ways to interact with the physical environment. Our flagship game, Skatrix, embraces skateboarding’s challenge of making a IDEAL CLIENT massive playground out of the real world. With this game, we aim to replicate the Our goal is to build a Skatrix community by social experience of shredding a skate spot targeting: Young skateboarding enthusiasts with your friends, even in times when we are who wish to express themselves through apart. Skatrix was designed to let players skateboarding, on and off the board. And around the world invent clever ways to skate earlier skaters and other action sports fans by exploiting their surrounding architecture from older generations who wish to keep and environment. skating non-physically. COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE COMPANY As expert implementers of AR technologies, Reality Crisis is an Augmented Reality mobile we’ve created a system that integrates game development studio distributed across cutting edge, widely available functionalities, Europe, the Americas, and Oceania. We with intuitive controls. We then joined forces create games inspired by the positivity and with skateboarding legend, Rodney Mullen, perseverance of action sports communities to find the right game-feel to authentically and give players the super-power to project recreate the creativity displayed by action their aspirational selves onto the world. Kasimir Lehto [email protected] +358 50 472 1722 https://realitycrisis.io BIM TO THE PEOPLE!

OUR SOLUTION IDEAL CLIENT Instantly publish 3D models from any BIM Targeted at BIM Professionals, we deliver software to any device. Communicate and countless opportunities for non-technical review issues in the model on site with our audiences, making 3D models easier to 3D/VR Viewer. Use our Commenting Tool and share with anyone anywhere. Architects can get 2-way feedback regardless of which BIM now rapidly share 3D plans with clients or software you are using. Also, breaking down contractors and construction workers can existing barriers to sharing large BIMs, our review changes in 3D on site via mobile streaming service works with any size of devices. model on any device. COMPANY COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE Tridify is a technology automation company Only one license needed: invite team focusing on BIM (Building Information members to generate Tridify Web Viewer Model) communication and visualization. Our links and share links freely with anyone. No team has deep domain expertise in 3D additional licenses or accounts needed. rendering and game engines, graphics and VR/AR. Our fully automated workflow is based on a very advanced open standards BIM processing engine, built over more than six years. Privately held and based in Helsinki, Finland.

Kasey Snyder [email protected] +358 40 181 5541 www.tridify.com SELL AND PROMOTE ANY PRODUCT EASIER

OUR SOLUTION by helping consumers start the purchase online at home. Our visual CPQ tool powered by VividPlatform™ enables product IDEAL CLIENT configuration for complex, modular products with an array of visualization options Anyone who has a complex, modular product including AR, VR, 360 panorama and high can benefit from our solution. Our visual, quality resolution imaging, all integrated to rules based solution provides up-to-date your existing sales processes. We also pricing for correct quotes to send semi- provide the tools to independently maintain custom products quickly and error-free to the solution and provide training in areas production, saving time and money. related to 3D as required. COMPANY COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE Our customers always have their sales We offer a wide range of visualization catalog at their fingertips – up-to-date with options and we integrate directly to your all options, colors, designs and prices. Our existing systems. We bring additional value core competence and vast technology to business by shortening the sales cycle, expertise in visual configuration and CPQ inspiring customers to commit to purchase solutions place us in a great position to help when they really see what they are getting. manufacturers in their shift to digital. Sales staff are seen as experts and online sales and pre-sales practices are supported

Erin Saraspää [email protected] +358 44 509 8553 www.vividworks.com TECHNOLOGY PARTNER

OUR SOLUTION COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE Wapice digitizes its clients’ business processes Our solutions derive from a good balance from the beginning to the end of the production between tailored software development and our chain, from sensor electronics to digital cloud own products. Wapice has extensive experience services. We provide a digitalization chain for all digitalizing industrial needs and business areas of business, including sales, product solutions. We also have long and comprehensive development, product maintenance and experience in Industry 4.0, manufacturing servicing. Ultimately, this supports the execution systems (MES), manufacturing development of entirely new digital business operations management (MOM) systems, concepts. industrial electronics, sensors, communication We provide tailored software development and and industrial systems. consulting with the full range of AI, cloud, DevOps, embedded systems and edge IDEAL CLIENT computing, IoT, security, web and mobile Our customers are both large and small industrial solutions. One of our products is an IoT platform companies, many of them operating globally. We called IoT-TICKET®, the complete Internet of serve them with tailored software, electronics Things (IoT) tool suite. Another product is our and business processes, in addition to our own visual sales configurator Summium® CPQ products. An ideal customer for us is one (configure, price, quote). Summium® Selector is wanting to digitalize their business using future our easy-to-use webshop solution for demanding technology today. industrial needs. COMPANY Wapice is an award-winning Finnish IoT, Industry 4.0 and AI company supporting leading industrial enterprises around the world on their Pasi Tuominen digitalization journeys. Established in 1999, [email protected] Wapice employs over 340 software and +358 40 579 3932 electronics experts at 10 offices in Finland. www.wapice.com ELEVATE YOUR PERFORMANCE THROUGH MIXED REALITY

OUR SOLUTION provide an unforgettable experience for your customers. 4. AR Marketing solutions will Our services can be divided into 4 different liven up any tour through vivid storytelling groups: 1. VR in Training. Train your and gamification. employees in an immersive environment. 2. VR in Design. Walk through 3D models, meet IDEAL CLIENT your colleagues, attach notes and much more in VR. 3. VR in Marketing. Showcase A progressive company who wants to your production plant, manufacturing redesign their critical business processes capabilities or products in VR. 4. AR in with VR or AR. These business processes Marketing. Take your cultural heritage site, could, for example, be something related to museum experience, learning platform or design, training or marketing. any marketing idea to a whole new level. COMPANY COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE We at CTRL Reality specialize in the 1. VR Training solutions will cut down production of state-of-the-art augmented travelling, training and human error related reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) solutions costs. 2. VR Design solutions make that elevate companies' performance to the communication more straightforward and next level. We are a university-based spinoff reduces design iterations and the need for company capable of delivering corporate- travelling. 3. VR Marketing solutions will level solutions.

Teijo Lehtonen [email protected] +358 44 440 0005 https://ctrlreality.fi/ MIXED REALITY VALUE CHAIN

OPERATING SYSTEM / HARDWARE APPLICATIONS CONTENT END USERS DEVELOPMENT TOOL KIT

OUR SOLUTION IDEAL CLIENT In the context of extended realities, we We co-create digital products and services create services that push the limits of AR, VR with forward-thinking companies. We are not and MR, and combine them with data, afraid to experiment, build, and learn. No artificial intelligence, machine learning and two clients are the same, and neither are user-centric design to create real value to any two projects. Our technology and vendor end users and organizations. We want to be agnostic approach allows us to craft solutions a part of defining how XR technologies are that truly serve business. going to be used in the future. COMPANY COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE We are an international digital engineering We are an independent, fast and flexible and innovation company. We create digital consultancy, formed around an extraordinary products and services and bring together core of technical excellence, and supported strategy, design, engineering and data to by exceptional understanding of usability and build resilience. We transform businesses design. We have built our company around and help our clients master digitalization and our people and our clients, always leading complexity, so they can take control of their from the front of technological change in futures. order to help companies become future- capable. We truly empower our people to do right by the client and focus on business outcomes and the long term.

Ike Rings [email protected] +358 50 516 0194 https://xr.futurice.com/ UNIQUE AND MAGICAL INTERACTIVE INSTALLATIONS

OUR SOLUTION IDEAL CLIENT We are pioneers and explorers of the Smart Our solutions are perfect for places and spaces Space - uniting the digital and physical world. At where you need wow-factor. Our clients are OiOi, we create meaningful, immersive, usually public spaces like airports, museums, interactive and digital installations in physical science centers, activity & theme parks, football spaces. These different elements make the space teams and company showrooms. We have visually interesting and very experiential. Users started to deliver learning experiences for can control the content displayed in the mode schools and daycare, wellness sensory walls for with their gestures, touch or their smartphone, elderly houses. We also do events and brand for example. The installations can also respond engagement, but we also love to dabble into to sound and music and use open data sources. pure art projects. COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE COMPANY We deliver tailored, meaningful solutions that OiOi has been creating memorable and truly meet our client's needs and goals with over meaningful digital experiences for ten years. Our 10-year experience. We use our Smart Space experience in digital media goes far further – we planner -service design method to collaborate have worked in the leading, most awarded digital closely with our clients to meet their needs. With agencies in Finland in leading positions. We work our software and platform, we are flexible for with a strong, scalable and international agency any environment and can create big or small and freelancer network for projects of all sizes. projects for global markets.

Sami Kämppi [email protected] +358 40 820 4561 https://oioi.fi/ INTELLIGENCE IS NOT ENOUGH

OUR SOLUTION services solve productivity issues in a more individual and customized way within all Process Genius offers a digital twin (3D) user industrial sectors. Success is guaranteed by interface for complete situational awareness our long experience in software development 24/7. We visualize the data and rationalize in this field. the operative hands-on work with different kinds of digital twin solutions. Additionally, COMPANY our extensive knowledge of web applications makes it possible to enhance productivity Our Process Genius people are experts who using a wide range of different development harness digital technologies for the benefit of projects. Since most of our staff have a business. We manage user interface design, background in the industrial world, we are 3D modeling, software development, project able to combine coding with industrial management and gamification. We work knowledge. independently with many different technologies to meet ever-changing business COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE needs. Our easily deployable Digital Twin solution is a SaaS platform enhancing productivity, safety and transparency, especially in the subcontracting industry. Our professional

Jani Akkila [email protected] +358 400 362 024 www.processgenius.fi DIGITAL TWINS FOR SMART MANUFACTURING

OUR SOLUTION COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE Our virtual models, digital twins and Our expertise combines built environment location-based services create cost-efficient and infrastructure planning with extensive asset management, daily operations, knowledge of smart digital solutions and logistics, mobility and situational awareness. technological revolutions, such as 5G, IoT We promote data management and open and smart transport. We serve a wide range data flows to boost data interoperability and of customers, such as the manufacturing high-quality construction. industry, harbors, municipalities and civil We compile terrain, infrastructure and authorities. With a deep understanding of 3D buildings digital twins for planning, technology, open building information maintenance and situational awareness. modeling (BIM) and geographic information A joint model and representation of the real systems (GIS), we are a Finnish pioneer in world is needed to achieve multi-domain and building information modeling. mutual situational awareness for decision- making by all domains and stakeholders. COMPANY Sitowise is one of the largest planning and consulting agencies in the built environment industry in Finland and Scandinavia. We are the leading expert in diversified urban projects and a pioneer in digital built environment solutions, data-driven management and data modeling. Jarkko Männistö [email protected] +358 50 579 0579 www.sitowise.com EXPERIENCE INFORMATION

OUR SOLUTION IDEAL CLIENT Our 3D, AR and VR solutions change the way Our ideal clients are forward-looking people communicate and interact with companies that recognise the transformative information, transforming how they work, potential of extended reality as one of the learn and collaborate in Sales & marketing – key technologies of the next wave of by improving customer experiences and digitalisation – driving new growth, new accelerating buyer journeys Learning & operating models, productivity gains and training – by improving learning results and reduced carbon footprint. addressing skill gaps Operations & maintenance – by improving worker COMPANY performance and promoting sustainability. Stereoscape enables people to experience information in entirely new ways. We are a COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE team of XR experts working together with a Amid rapid development of XR technologies, network of international partners, devoted to we remain technology independent. We making digital information more alive, focus on putting new technologies at the responsive, accessible and enjoyable, using service of people, with emphasis on game-changing XR technologies. interactive and immersive design and user experience. Our network-based business model enables us to select the best tools for the job to deliver end-to-end solutions and the best value to our clients. Karoliina Leisti [email protected] +358 44 743 8078 https://stereoscape.com/ DESIGN THE FACTORY OF THE FUTURE

OUR SOLUTION being able to design, test and simulate changes in the virtual world first, you can validate Visual Components offers a 3D factory simulation changes virtually. This minimizes downtime and and visualization suite consisting of a set of speeds up implementation. standard-setting innovative tools to design the factory of the future with modern simulation. Our COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE simulation suite gives machine builders, system integrators and manufacturers around the world Visual Components is recognized as a global a simple, quick and highly cost-effective leader in the manufacturing simulation industry approach to build and simulate their total and a trusted technology partner to many of the process solution. With solutions for sales, leading brands in industrial automation. Our manufacturing optimization and offline brand-independent solution provides machine programming, Visual Components software is designers, system integrators and end users a trusted by hundreds of organizations worldwide platform on which to integrate their solutions, to support critical planning and decision-making from concept to commissioning and operation. processes. Visual Components helps you design smarter COMPANY solutions and get better outcomes from Founded in 1999 by a Finnish-American team of technology purpose-built for manufacturing simulation experts, Visual Components started design. You can get predictable performance and with a humble goal – to make factory design and plan new automation projects with confidence. simulation technology easier to use and more Our solution reduces critical mistakes and accessible to manufacturing organizations of all oversights, so you get results you can trust. By sizes.

Mikko Salminen [email protected] +358 9 252 40800 www.visualcomponents.com EXPANDING REALITY

OUR SOLUTION IDEAL CLIENT Our services can be divided into 3 main Company that is looking for business groups: Zoan Virtual Studio (ZVS) creates benefits from utilizing virtual technologies or dazzling virtual worlds in high-quality 3D for offering next level entertainment and wow- virtual or augmented reality. Zoan Real experiences. Estate (ZRE) helps the clients to present their real estate portfolio to the world with COMPANY leading technology. Burst Live is a technical ZOAN is an award-winning team of over 100 platform that allows different kinds of virtual professionals combining game-engine based events and concerts. 3D graphics with the latest technologies. The company was founded in 2010 and is based COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE in Helsinki, Finland. With our now over 100 With 10 years of experience in combining professionals we create engaging content real-time 3D with technology solutions, we and unique experiences in VR, AR and 3D. are passionate about being the best. Our goal is to be the ones that define the global standard with the help of our global (multinational) team. Additionally, we have a wide range of experiences from retail to industry and from education to marketing.

Laura Olin [email protected] +358 40 351 6808 https://zoan.fi/