2025 marks an important year for the BeyondXR Cluster, with strong momentum built through collaboration, shared knowledge, and tangible progress across our projects.
BeyondXR cluster has strengthened its role as a common space for European XR initiatives, delivering key milestones such as joint webinars, increased cross-project dissemination, growing engagement through social media and the forum, and coordinated participation in events and standardisation discussions.
Find in the below table the highlights of 2025 from some of the BeyondXR projects that reflect the collective efforts that continue to shape the future of XR, AI, and immersive technologies.
Projects | Milestones |
| XR5.0 | – 5 Beyond XR Webinars in collaboration with the BeyondXR Cluster: Educational webinars organized with the BeyondXR Cluster, focusing on the latest developments in XR technology. – Pilot Webinars and one F2F Training session (2 of them have been done): a series of pilot webinars showcasing how XR technologies and AI-enhanced systems are applied across diverse training and industrial use cases. – Following the Virtual Words Association: XR5.0 is committed to following and contribute to the activities of the newly established Virtual Worlds Association, which brings together different stakeholders in the field of Virtual Reality and Extended Reality |
| XR4ED | – Publish XR4ED platform – Disseminate all FSTP projects at UNITEDXR event in Brussels in December |
| OpenVerse | OPENVERSE – Key Achievements in 2025: In 2025, OPENVERSE partners proudly organised and contributed to a range of strategic events. These activities strengthened the Virtual Worlds community, fostered engagement with national initiatives, and supported the development of the European Technology Framework. Together, these efforts unite key domains around a shared vision: open, interoperable, and human-centric Virtual Worlds. As OPENVERSE enters its final year, stay tuned for major upcoming events. The journey is expected to culminate in the OPENVERSE Summit—a must-attend opportunity to meet your community, expand your network, and engage with the newly established Virtual Worlds Association, with whom we look forward to continued collaboration. |
| MOTIVATE XR | – MOTIVATE XR key accomplishments 2025: The project has achieved a major technical milestone with its Beta Release, a production-ready platform that manages the entire industrial XR lifecycle. This development integrates AI-powered, no-code authoring tools that automate the creation of training scenarios from manuals with advanced experiencing services featuring live Digital Twin telemetry and gesture-controlled headset support. The platform establishes a secure, validated environment for immersive industrial collaboration and real-time remote assistance. – Training progress: The MOTIVATE XR project has successfully transitioned from development to real-world validation through key industrial pilots. In the Aerospace Industry (Pilot 1), a milestone was reached by using an AI pipeline to automatically convert complex maintenance manuals into playable training scenarios for Liebherr Aerospace. Simultaneously, the Aluminium Industry (Pilot 3) has moved into the final evaluation phase, where trainees are now using the RTXR Player and HoloLens 2 to test immersive assembly training at the Architectural Aluminium Academy. – #3 Newsletter Out!! This issue is packed with exclusive content and reveals the impactful results and pivotal developments we’ve achieved across the project. Get a direct look at how MOTIVATE XR is shaping the future of technology and training! MOTIVATE XR’s Latest Leap in Immersive Training |
| SPIRIT | – SPIRIT Open Call 2: 16 Winning Projects Across Europe SPIRIT successfully launched and completed Open Call 2, supporting 16 innovative projects advancing real-time immersive telepresence. Selected from 62 proposals, the winners represent academia, research organisations, and SMEs from Europe, showcasing applications spanning healthcare, education, entertainment, tourism, manufacturing, and more. – Strong Presence at EuroXR 2025 SPIRIT participated in the 22nd EuroXR International Conference (EuroXR 2025) in Winterthur, Switzerland. Together with the CORTEX² project, SPIRIT co-hosted the joint track “Extended Collaborative Telepresence – How CORTEX² and SPIRIT are Advancing Innovation in XR.” This session marked the final event for both projects, featuring presentations, demos, and results from over 50 cascade-funded initiatives. – Concluding SPIRIT Open Calls 1 & 2: Showcasing the Funded Projects As SPIRIT reaches the end of its journey this December, both Open Call 1 and Open Call 2 are now concluding. SPIRIT amplified the impact of its funded projects through written interviews and short video interviews of OC1 and OC2, showcasing the teams, their ideas, and real-world applications. |