Transforming Industry Through Mixed Reality Innovation
The digital transformation sweeping across industries today finds a new catalyst in mixed reality (MR), a hybrid of physical and digital realms with the power to revolutionize how we conceptualize, design, and manufacture complex systems. One of the pioneering companies leading this shift is SKYREAL, a French innovator harnessing the potential of extended reality (XR) to empower the world’s most advanced industries. From defense to aerospace and energy solutions, SKYREAL is redefining engineering collaboration, product development, and decision-making accuracy through immersive technology.
As organizations face increasing complexity in product design and supply chain coordination, SKYREAL offers a robust solution: a managed XR service portfolio tightly integrated with engineering tools, built for security and optimal performance over the entire product lifecycle. By connecting Computer-Aided Design (CAD) environments to game engines such as Unreal Engine, SKYREAL serves as a gateway to real-time, collaborative, and highly detailed extended reality experiences.
Skyreal VR: Reimagining CAD in Immersive Environments
At the heart of SKYREAL’s offering lies Skyreal VR, a powerful virtual reality CAD software platform purpose-built for industrial engineering. Through Skyreal VR, organizations in the aerospace, energy, maritime, and defense sectors can explore their complex CAD designs in full-scale immersive environments, enabling a revolutionary leap forward in design validation, manufacturing simulation, and operational planning.
Traditional CAD review processes are often siloed, time-consuming, and difficult to visualize at scale. Skyreal VR transforms this paradigm by providing a shared, real-time digital twin experience where team members can intuitively interact with their 3D data. Whether you're reviewing the cockpit of a fighter jet, the layout of a nuclear power plant, or the logistics of a naval corridor, Skyreal VR allows you to simulate, evaluate, and iterate with confidence.
By converting CAD data into immersive simulations, Skyreal VR reduces the need for expensive physical prototypes, accelerates development timelines, and fosters cross-functional collaboration from the earliest design stages to post-launch support. This modern approach helps reduce project risks, enables faster stakeholder buy-in, and ultimately, improves the quality of delivered products.
CAD Forge: Fast and Accurate CAD-to-XR Conversion
Truth in extended reality starts with faithful data conversion. For this, SKYREAL developed CAD Forge: a rapid conversion engine that transforms complex mechanical and structural data into optimized XR-ready assets. Its comprehensive capabilities ensure that your entire product ecosystem—meshes, geometric properties, metadata, product hierarchies, and textures—converts seamlessly without loss of fidelity.
- Broad compatibility: Import virtually any CAD file type into your XR workflow
- Optimized for game engines: Prepares models for use with Unreal Engine and Unity
- Sub-millimeter accuracy: Precision reaches up to 0.01 mm for high-fidelity simulation
- Faster import times: Significantly reduce the time spent preparing models for immersive use
With CAD Forge, SKYREAL offers more than just format conversion—it creates a structured and efficient pipeline for the creation of digital twins, immersive visualizations, and interactive training modules. Whether it’s for prototyping or operator training, this tool ensures fidelity and responsiveness in any mixed reality application.
XR Center: Unified Control Over Your XR Projects
The increasing scale and complexity of XR initiatives require not just powerful software, but also a secure environment to manage collaboration, storage, and versioning. This is where XR Center comes into play, SKYREAL’s centralized platform for accessing, modifying, and managing every aspect of immersive project development.
XR Center acts as the digital headquarters for your immersive collaboration. Teams from across locations and disciplines can securely access 3D content, share immersive model variants, and even modify CAD data directly from within virtual reality. It supports a wide range of file types and secures collaboration through encryption protocols, token-based authentication, and user rights management.
Beyond mere file storage, XR Center optimizes how stakeholders interact with industrial data. Project managers, engineers, quality teams, and end-users can converge in a shared digital space to evaluate and iterate without the burden of disparate tools or misaligned information.
- Encrypted access: User access is strictly managed and protected
- Real-time collaboration: Share and modify immersive content with instant synchronization
- Comprehensive organization: Structure your data and assets intuitively
The XR Center stands as a holistic content management system tailored for the future of industrial XR, delivering clarity, accessibility, and control at every project stage.
Midway through this transformative journey into XR, it becomes evident that SKYREAL has built more than a technology suite—it has forged an ecosystem where engineering precision meets immersive fluency.
Gaia: Enabling Systems Technology for the MBSE Era
Wait no longer for disconnected systems models and slow requirement traceability. Gaia, SKYREAL’s systems engineering platform, lets technical teams visualize and interact with complex product architectures in real-time. Tailored for organizations using the Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) approach, Gaia unifies the many strands of a project—requirements, specifications, interfaces, and performance parameters—into one immersive system model.
This spatial visualization supports key activities such as:
- Functional mock-ups: Virtually assemble systems to validate design logic
- Specification mapping: Manage evolving requirements visually
- Interface validation: Catch integration issues early
- Trade studies and scenarios: Perform quick "what-if" analysis using interactive models
For engineering managers, Gaia provides a decisive advantage: improved transparency and faster iteration of system definitions without losing the thread of technical intent. For developers and designers, it reclaims time and reduces ambiguity between interfaces. Used in tandem with Skyreal VR and CAD Forge, Gaia becomes a cornerstone in building better, safer, and smarter industrial systems.
Unlocking the Future of Mixed Reality in Industry
Mixed reality is no longer a speculative trend destined only for entertainment or retail. It is becoming an enterprise necessity—especially in domains where the cost of a mistake is measured in millions of dollars or lives. SKYREAL is pioneering the extension of XR into engineering workflows that shape airplanes, energy systems, space programs, and defense applications.
By reducing silos and providing an immersive bridge between CAD data and real-world deployments, SKYREAL enhances understanding, streamlines development, and improves collaboration across entire stakeholder ecosystems. Whether you’re transitioning to Industry 4.0 or venturing into the world of digital twins, SKYREAL has proven itself to be the partner of choice to navigate this complex and data-rich environment.
In a world where product cycles are accelerating and models are becoming exponentially more complex, the answer is not just better software—it’s smarter, more immersive engagement with the data that defines your success. With tools like Skyreal VR, CAD Forge, XR Center, and Gaia, you’re not just designing the future—you’re experiencing it, testing it, and perfecting it from the start.
