R&D projects advancing medical XR.

ORamaVR collaborates with European and Swiss research programmes to push the boundaries of XR, 5G, and AI-assisted medical simulation. Below are the ongoing and completed projects we contribute to as a technology provider, work-package lead, or use-case owner.

Ongoing projects

Active research collaborations.

Initiatives where ORamaVR currently contributes as a technology provider, work-package lead, or use-case owner. Click a project to read the full description.

INDUX-R

  • Ongoing
  • Horizon Europe
  • XR ecosystem Realistic animation

A human-centric XR ecosystem for European industrial sectors, combining advances in light-field HMDs, XR media streaming, egocentric perception, and a zero-touch 5G architecture. ORamaVR leads the SDK for realistic animation and motion modelling.

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INDUX-R envisions a human-centric XR ecosystem that will revolutionize European industrial sectors by empowering individuals and creating innovative XR products and services with significant added value. The project aims for concrete scientific breakthroughs integrated into technological enablers, applied in real-life use cases with potential for replication across applications.

Focus on core XR technologies, including digitization and creation of XR assets, realistic animation, light-field HMDs, XR media streaming, and egocentric perception. Challenges of multi-user XR applications are addressed through a scalable, zero-touch 5G architecture and a secure, interoperable IoT network.

ORamaVR’s role: Leads the task of designing and developing an SDK for realistic animation and motion modeling in XR worlds.

Project website → Horizon Europe

OMEN-E

  • Ongoing
  • Swiss Accelerator
  • Innosuisse Generative AI

Democratizing VR medical metaverse content with an open, generative-AI, no-code neural authoring platform that enables medical organizations to mass-produce high-fidelity VR training simulations.

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The vision is a unique authoring tool for the medical VR training metaverse that combines ground-breaking creation features with generative-AI methods. Medical experts will generate training simulations in a matter of hours.

Innosuisse · Swiss Accelerator

Viva-VOsCE

  • Ongoing
  • Innosuisse
  • OSCE assessment

A VR platform to help medical schools deliver and assess Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs) more efficiently.

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Viva-VOsCE aims to automate procedural aspects of the assessment so clinical examiners can focus on interpersonal skills during an OSCE.

ORamaVR’s role: Upscale the SDK with innovative features that enable the OSCE examiner to optimally and objectively assess an examinee’s overall performance.

FIDAL

  • Ongoing
  • Horizon Europe
  • 5G / Beyond-5G Public safety XR

Advanced future-proof Evolved-5G test infrastructures with Zero-Touch orchestration and secure AI-as-a-Service. ORamaVR leads the XR-assisted services for public safety use case.

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FIDAL aspires to extend and deliver advanced 5G test infrastructures and support 3rd-party vertical experiments.

ORamaVR’s role: Leads the XR-assisted services for public safety use case.

Project on CORDIS → Horizon Europe

PROFICIENCY

  • Ongoing
  • Innosuisse
  • Surgical training VR / AR

Standardised, proficiency-based surgical training curricula interfaced with simulation tools.

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Develops innovative training tools across online VR, augmented box trainers, high-end simulators, and AR-enabled surgery.

ORamaVR’s role: Leads the VR platform work-package in the Online/VR simulation subproject.

Project website → Innosuisse

Completed projects

Past research milestones.

REVIRES-MED

  • Completed
  • Greece 2.0 NextGenerationEU Productisation

A VR simulation-based medical training platform that allows rapid and affordable authoring of VR training content.

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The project uses Creator to enhance skills acquisition in surgical training and addresses the global shortage of surgical training capacity.

Intelligent Digital Surgeon

  • Completed
  • Innosuisse Embodied AI 5G/Edge

An embodied virtual agent that provides personalized, real-time feedback and recommendations in surgical training.

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ORamaVR’s role: Main implementation partner.

Project website → Innosuisse

5G-EPICENTRE

  • Completed
  • Horizon Europe 5G PPDR

An open end-to-end 5G experimentation platform for public protection and disaster relief.

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ORamaVR’s role: Responsible for the AR-assisted emergency surgical care use case.

Project website → Horizon Europe

CHARITY

  • Completed
  • Horizon Europe Cloud / Edge Holography & XR

Framework for VR, AR, and holographic apps using an edge-native cloud architecture.

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ORamaVR’s role: Use-cases work-package leader for the VR Medical training use case.

Project website → Horizon Europe

ACCORDION

  • Completed
  • Horizon Europe Edge computing Collaborative VR

An approach that pools resources to support next-gen applications.

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ORamaVR’s role: Responsible for the collaborative VR use case.

Project website → Horizon Europe

VipGPU

  • Completed
  • EYDE-ETAK (GR) Low-power GPU Mobile VR HMD

A custom FPGA prototype for computer vision and VR medical surgical training.

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ORamaVR’s role: Developing a custom mobile VR prototype headset optimized for low-energy GPUs.

STARS PCP

  • Completed
  • Pre-Commercial Procurement Perioperative

A sustainable platform for personalized perioperative education and stress management.

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VRADA

  • Completed
  • EYDE-ETAK (GR) Dementia / Alzheimer’s Exercise VR

An exercise program in a virtual environment for people with dementia and Alzheimer’s disease.

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ORamaVR’s role: Implementing the virtual environment platform that synchronizes movement from an exercise bicycle into VR input.