Train scientists on the instruments before they ever touch the real ones.
VARLIS™ builds a fully reproduced VR laboratory where scientists train on real instruments and workflows before using the expensive equipment - instrument familiarisation, full calibration procedures, and live simulations, practised solo or together. Real-time guidance on the physical instrument itself is a separate product, Project Parallax.
Procedure training, instrument familiarisation, and full workflow practice in a fully reproduced lab environment.
Hands-on physics - live particles and spectra that respond to the controls you turn, not abstract theory.
Shared VR sessions, remote demonstration, and guided training with original avatars.
A fully reproduced VR laboratory.
A working laboratory environment with instruments from major manufacturers, reproduced with the fidelity scientists will recognise: real touchscreens that respond, doors that open, knobs and buttons that do what they should, and software interfaces that match the real equipment.
The depth that earns trust.
Scientists notice fidelity. Buttons that don't behave like the real ones, software UIs that don't match the panel they trained on, doors that open the wrong way - all of those quietly break the training value. The VARLIS lab is built so trained scientists recognise their tools.
- Instruments from major analytical manufacturers
- Working touchscreens with real-looking software
- Physical interactions that match the real equipment
- Variety across analytical, weighing, and separation
Built by hand. Optimised for VR from the first polygon.
Assets are hand-built to a mobile-XR performance budget from the first polygon - lean geometry, baked lighting, authored UVs. It's what lets the experience hold a steady framerate on standalone hardware.
Faithful down to the last detail.
Every instrument, surface and label in a VARLIS environment is modelled from scratch - faithful down to the logo on a pen. Detail and performance, by design: a scene that looks right and still holds a smooth, comfortable framerate on a standalone headset.
- Lean, hand-built geometry
- Baked lighting and hand-authored UVs and textures
- A mobile-XR performance budget from the first polygon
- Faithful to the last detail, smooth on standalone hardware
Precision balance calibration training.
A precision-class research balance reproduced inside the VR lab, with its manufacturer's calibration software replicated. Trainees run the full calibration workflow - door, weight placement, software sequence - exactly as they would on the real instrument.
Calibration without the risk of breaking a real one.
Precision balances are expensive and easy to damage. A trainee can run a complete calibration cycle in VR - opening the draught shield, handling the calibration weight, walking through the software's calibration sequence, and reading the result - before they ever touch the lab instrument.
- Full calibration workflow end to end
- Replicated manufacturer calibration software UI
- Correct handling of draught shield, weight, and result reading
Triple-quadrupole MS with live particles and live spectra.
A triple-quadrupole tandem mass spectrometer modelled out on the bench, with particles travelling through the instrument in real time and a live spectrum floating above. Three on-bench control boxes let trainees adjust RF and DC voltages on each quadrupole and watch the spectrum respond - the way the underlying physics actually works, made visible.
See the spectrum respond to your hands.
Most mass spec training is abstract: the trainee learns parameters, then trusts that the instrument does what the textbook says. VARLIS makes it physical. Adjust an RF voltage on Q1 and watch the spectrum redraw. Change a DC offset and see the mass window shift. The underlying physics becomes a thing you can move.
- Live particle simulation through all three quadrupoles
- Floating spectrum that updates as voltages change
- Physical on-bench control boxes (one per quad)
- Real-time cause-and-effect for RF and DC parameters
Guidance on the real instrument: Project Parallax.
VR is for learning before you touch the instrument. The next step - real-time mixed-reality guidance on the physical equipment, with defined step checks and a workflow record - is its own product.
Project Parallax™
An AI-guided MR system that recognises a real instrument, aligns a 3D model over it, and guides the operator through the approved procedure in real time - verifying each step while keeping the human in control. Built on a working Quest 3 prototype, aimed at Android XR / XREAL Aura glasses.
Custom avatars for shared and remote training.
Original avatars built specifically for VARLIS sessions - used for shared VR training, remote demonstration, and guided sessions between an instructor and a learner who are not in the same building.
Be in the lab together, from anywhere.
Shared training sessions remove the geography problem. A senior scientist in one city can walk a junior through a workflow in the VR lab; an instrument company trainer can give a guided tour to a customer in another country. The avatars are designed to be expressive and original - not the default-asset look most VR collaboration tools ship with.
Built by someone who has actually used the instruments.
The credibility behind the work.
VARLIS™ scientific training is built by a PhD chemist and trained scientific-instrument engineer with formal, hands-on training across major analytical-instrument manufacturers. The reproduced instruments and workflows are not approximations from datasheets - they are built by someone who has run those instruments on the bench, knows the failure modes, and understands what scientists need to learn first.
The examples shown here cover precision-balance training, live analytical-instrument simulations, and remote VR demonstration workflows. Customer-specific work is discussed privately and only published when cleared for release.
Have an instrument that needs training? A workflow that needs MR guidance?
VARLIS takes on a small number of custom training and MR-guidance pilots each quarter. If you are at an instrument manufacturer, a contract lab, or an industrial / pharma lab with a training or operator-assistance problem, the fastest path is to start a conversation.
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