Example projects

VOPUS – Virtual World Opera for Participation, Unity, and Social Cohesion

Virtual worlds are becoming part of everyday life, reshaping how people work, learn, and engage with culture. The Aalto-led Horizon Europe project VOPUS joins forces of academic partners and three European opera houses to investigate what this shift means for the arts, focusing on opera. Opera brings together many of the elements that make European culture rich, including live performance, language, tradition, and a strong sense of place.

XTREME

In the XTREME Horizon Europe project, Finnish National Opera and Ballet (FNOB) and Aalto University produce a full scale virtual performance with measurement and analysis of audience experience in 2025. The project is coordinated by the IT University of Copenhagen (ITU). The total budget of the project is M€ 8.0 and the project takes place during 2024–26.

MEDALLION

Medical AI and Immersion project (MEDALLION), funded by Business Finland in 2023–2026, is a co-innovation project between TAU, TUAS, Aalto and several companies. It focuses on ways to give medical professionals better tools to analyse medical data. By using XR environments, doctors can use their human senses to explore the data and interact with it in a more intuitive way. This will improve their workflows, reduce the number of mistakes, and save time and money. It also develops XR methodology for quality control, which is essential in the medical domain.

AWE – Augmented Wearable Computing

The solutions created in the AWE project enable a wider utilization of metaverses in both professional and hobby uses.
Human augmentation enables extending human senses, cognition, and ways of action. Wearable technologies make it possible to implement such new abilities in a seamless and natural way.

Music and dance

Music and dance are used by young adults in social interactions every day. The aim of this project is to understand how music supports social connection through embodied interaction in young people. This project is part of the CoE for Music, Mind, Body and Brain in University of Jyväskylä.