Helsinki XR Center

Helsinki XR Center

Abbreviation

HXRC

Infrastructure description

Helsinki XR Center – the home of Extended Realities opened its doors in early 2019. Located in Helsinki Arabia next to Metropolia University of Applied Sciences culture campus, HXRC is an incubator for talent, a cultural hub for co-creation and learning for all XR artists, entrepreneurs, engineers, scientists, students and enthusiasts. HXRC aims to become the leading innovation, development and startup center in the Europe dedicated to VR and AR technologies. Helsinki XR Center is operated by Metropolia University of Applied Sciences together with Finnish Virtual Reality Association FIVR.

Scientific description

HXRC offers state-of-art facilities and equipment for XR (Extended Reality) research and development, including high capacity workstations, headsets, software, mobile devices. HXRC offers also green screen, motion capture and media studios for researchers and developers. All HXRC facilities including co-working space and showroom are open for academic and business purposes.

Start of activity

2019

Responsible organisation

Metropolia University of Applied Sciences

Keywords

XR, AR, VR, augmented reality, extended reality, spatial computing, virtual reality

Research infrastructure services

XR research and development equipment and software

HXRC showroom

Other information

Fields of science

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY

Classifications

On the Academy of Finland roadmap

No

ESFRI

Data and computing

Contact information

Name

Helsinki XR Center info

Description

HXRC team service contact

Visiting address

Hämeentie 135A, 00560 Helsinki