FIT Turku Competence Center
FIT Turku is a centre of expertise for Futuristic Interactive Technologies. We conduct applied research on virtual, augmented and mixed reality and offer tailor-made solutions to meet the needs of our partners. We use the latest technology and know-how in the industry. Whether you require immersive training simulations, interactive product visualizations, we have the skills and knowledge to make your vision come true.
We want to collaborate with technology companies and partners on research and development projects that can lead to new products, patents, and innovations. We work with companies on a national and international level and help reaching and scale in global markets.
We have carried out a wide range of projects from rehabilitation and educational digital gamified solutions with strong work in UX/UI, to the newer needs of the metaverse, digital twins and robotics with own challenges on data structures, neural networks, machine learning, and prototype developing and testing. We are developing our own metaverse technology specifically designed for industrial training applications. We can also offer expertise in game and application development, market validation and patenting, for example.
Our strengths
- VR, AR and MR research and applications
- Metaverse-technologies
- Game and app development
- Fast prototyping
- Visualization solutions
- UX/UI.
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Each partnership is structured differently. Tell us what kind of problem you are looking for a solution to. We’d love to hear from you.
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We cooperate with organisations of different sizes, from small projects to longer projects. The content of the service is always tailored together with the customer to suit the need.
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The development work is carried out as expert work or on a case-by-case basis, for example, as a student project or a student’s thesis work. In addition, we continuously carry out numerous larger research and development projects with various partners and funding contributors.
Excellent laboratory facilities
The investments made in recent years in the Future Interactive Technologies in Turku UAS campuses have acquired an exceptionally wide range of virtual, augmented and augmented reality hardware and software (VR/XR/MR). The laboratory infrastructure is used in joint research, development and innovation projects.
Examples of our work: Metaverse technologies in education applications
Maritime VR training: Emerging immersive technologies, such as virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) and mixed reality (MR) transformed the concept and operations of maritime simulations
Industrial metaverse are VR- and/or AR-based collaborative environments used for learning, training and practicing tasks in industrial settings. In this video you can see a collection of cases of what we have working on.
Digital Twins: possibilities to analyze human experiences of possible future spaces using digital twins.
Virpa – Fire Expert is a digital and virtual learning environment for young schoolchildren. The purpose of this fully-free-to-play game is to promote knowledge and skills related to fire safety.
Forklift training: processes and tasks, like the operation of a forklift, can be practiced and learned in Industrial Metaverse. In this video we show the first-person view of a worker practicing the use of a forklift.
AIF FireSimulation: Prototype for VR Safety Training
Networks and cooperation
We cooperate with companies, universities and research institutes in Finland and internationally. Our partners include
- Proverse Interactive Oy empower businesses in all industries with innovative metaverse solutions that optimize productivity streamline processes, and drive sustainable growth.
- Nokia RXRM industrial metaverse technology enabler
- as well as numerous other technology companies, public research organisations and universities in Finland and abroad.
We are members of these networks:
- EU VRAR Industrial Coalition
- Digital Defence Ecosystem
- Metaverse Initiative by Finnish Ecosystem.
A learning environment
FIT Turku Competence Center is also a learning environment where Turku University of Applied Sciences ICT engineers complete their studies. Our goal is to provide students with immersive and hands-on learning experiences that cover beyond traditional gaming but also other subject areas such as AR/VR and the metaverse. Take a look at ICT education if you are interested in interactive technologies and want to become a professional in the field.
MAGICS: accelerate research into human in the digital world
We are part of MAGICS − a joint effort of six Finnish universities – to form a network of infrastructures to accelerate research into human in the digital world. MAGICS is an infrastructure and a community for practicing cutting-edge science and art related to socially sustainable digitalization and virtualization. New XR technologies and AI solutions accelerate transformation towards a virtual world. Our emphasis on the role of art within the host universities distinguishes MAGICS within the Finnish research infrastructure landscape.
Nominated experts behind the services
Behind the FIT Turku Competence Center is the Futuristic Interactive Technologies research group, which RDI activities aim at extensive utilization of interactive technologies in different fields of operation. The research group works in close interaction and cooperation with business life.