Train scientists on instruments they have not touched yet. Guide them while they touch the real one.
VARLIS™ builds two distinct things for laboratories and instrument manufacturers: a fully reproduced VR laboratory where scientists can train on instruments before using the real equipment, and a productised MR system that recognises real instruments in the room and guides operators through correct procedure in real time.
Procedure training, instrument familiarisation, and workflow practice in a fully reproduced lab environment.
On-device assistance that recognises real instruments, overlays 3D guidance, and checks compliance steps in real time.
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
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
MR guidance on real instruments.
Not VR. A productised mixed-reality system that recognises a real instrument in the room, auto-aligns its own 3D model over the physical equipment, and guides the operator through correct procedure in real time - including compliance checks like gloves, door state, and weight placement.
Operator assistance that watches what is actually happening.
VR is for learning. MR is for working. The VARLIS MR system tracks the real instrument and the operator's real hands, and intervenes when something looks wrong: missing PPE, an open door, a misplaced calibration weight. It's the layer between an SOP document and an experienced colleague standing over your shoulder.
- Automatic 3D model alignment over the real instrument
- Live compliance checks (PPE, door state, weight placement)
- Step-by-step procedural guidance for real workflows
- Built for instrument manufacturers and lab compliance teams
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 training from Waters, Mettler Toledo, Malvern Panalytical and others. 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.
Recent work includes a free demo build delivered to a major weighing-instrument manufacturer; further public reference work will be added as customer relationships allow.
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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