Put your wholeoperation on theboardroom table.
A living, animated model of your plant, mine or process, anchored to a real table and seen through a headset in colour passthrough. Your customer walks up, puts it on, and thirty seconds later is standing over your operation while your expert talks them through it. Mixed reality, not VR — they still see the room, and they still see you.
We built it before anyone asked us to.
A JSE-listed mining chemicals and water-treatment group put out a brief for a mixed reality experience. Rather than describe one, we built a working proof of concept on a Quest 3 — a complete operation from drill and blast through to water treatment, anchored to a real table — and recorded it. These are captures from inside the headset, not renders.
- 30 s
- Headset on to standing over your operationNo briefing, no acclimatisation, no tutorial. Passthrough means they never lose the room.
- 2–3 min
- Guided pass, with depth on demandShort enough to hand on to the next person, long enough to be the thing they remember.
- 0
- PCs, cables or venue Wi‑Fi neededStandalone by design. Everything a demonstration needs travels in one case.
- 6+
- Live browser 3D experiences shippedThe Mine, PPS, D+A, the 3D Treasure Hunt, Auxo World and Metsi — all still online.
Three layers. Anyone can stop at the first one.
Interaction adds depth; it is never required. The experience is complete for a visitor who does nothing but look — which is exactly what you want on a stand, where half the people in a headset have never worn one.
The living model
The default state. Nobody has to touch anything.
The whole operation runs as an animated diorama on the table: trucks on the ramp, the plant turning, water moving through the circuit. A visitor who never lifts a finger still walks away with an immediate picture of how much of their world you are actually in.
The story layer
Stage by stage, with your products in place.
Select a stage and the model focuses on it — and what you supply at that point appears where it works, not on a slide next to it. Your rep drives the order, so the tour goes to the part of the operation this particular customer buys from.
The detail moments
Depth on demand, under a minute each.
The short zoom-ins that answer the question a customer actually asks: a blast firing on its initiation timing, reagent action inside a cell, the process-water loop closing. Reachable in a couple of taps, skippable when the conversation does not need them.
Seven stages, one continuous operation.
This is the chain the proof of concept already models. Yours will have a different shape — the point is that it is one working system a customer can follow end to end, not seven diagrams on seven slides.
Benches drilled on a pattern, charged, and fired on an electronic timing sequence.
The detail moment here is a blast: the pattern lights up in initiation order, the face moves, and the fragmentation your customer is buying is suddenly a thing they watched happen.
The test is day three, after two hundred demos.
Anyone can make something beautiful run once, in a studio, on a cold device. An exhibition hall is hot, loud, crowded and has terrible Wi-Fi, and your stand does not get a second chance at 9am on the opening morning. So we engineer for that first.
Standalone. No venue Wi-Fi.
The whole experience runs on the headsets. A pre-configured travel router links the headsets, the facilitator tablet and the screen on a private local network. Nothing calls the internet. Everything you need travels in one case.
A facilitator drives it, from a tablet
Start a guided tour, jump straight to the stage this customer cares about, trigger a detail moment, switch to a mode where the visitor only watches and listens. Your rep keeps the conversation; the headset never takes it away from them.
The spectator screen does the selling
Two or three people are in headsets. Twenty are standing around them. A live mirror on a screen turns the crowd into the audience instead of a queue — and gives your rep something to point at while the next group waits.
One tap resets between groups
Every session ends the same way: the facilitator closes the conversation and taps reset. The next visitor starts clean, in the same state, every single time.
Built for day three, not day one
The real test is whether it still runs cleanly after two hundred demonstrations in a hot hall. Frame-rate budget is enforced from the first blockout build and quality is added inside it — never at its expense.
Thermal, battery and a hot spare
Units rotate through the day, external battery options are planned in, and a spare headset is always charged and loaded. Hardware failure at a stand is a solved problem, not a prayer.
Hygiene for high-throughput days
Wipeable facial interfaces and spare interface sets. It sounds small until it is the fourth hour of a show and the same headset has been on forty heads.
Kiosk-mode deployment
Headsets boot straight into the experience and recover cleanly from sleep, a battery swap or a clumsy handover. Nobody on your stand should ever see an operating-system menu.
The spec, in one lineStandalone Meta Quest 3colour passthroughco-located multi-headsetfacilitator tabletspectator screenone-tap resetno PCno venue Wi-Fi
Six steps, three quality gates, one signed storyboard.
A typical engagement lands in roughly 10 to 12 weeks from appointment to a trained facilitator running it in public. Content and development phases deliberately overlap — development starts on the signed storyboard while 3D production continues — which is what makes that timeline safe rather than heroic.
- Step 01
Scoping with your SMEs
A structured workshop with the people who actually know the process. We bring the storytelling and the visual craft; you bring the technical truth. Exit: a signed scope — stages, environments, product placements, device count.
- Step 02
Storyboard sign-off
Every scene, every stage, every detail moment approved on paper before a single asset goes into production. The signed storyboard is what protects the delivery date, and it is what stops scope drifting in November.
- Step 03
Three visual quality gates
Blockout, first polish, final asset lock — each one reviewed with you, on the device rather than on a screen share. The premium standard gets verified in stages instead of hoped for at the end.
- Step 04
Playable on hardware early
A build you can put on your head lands well before feature-complete. Nobody signs off a mixed reality experience from a video; you need to have stood over it.
- Step 05
UAT and a facilitator rehearsal
Your people run it, in front of us, with the tablet in their hands — before the event, not at it. Acceptance is your team demonstrating it competently, not a document we both sign.
- Step 06
Handover and event-day support
Hardware, software, source files, an event-day runbook and trained facilitators. Then on-call or on-stand support for the first deployments, because the first show is the one that matters.
What you still own in two years.
You own the commissioned content
Models, story, build. Experience design, storyboards, 3D assets and animations are yours, and the source files are handed over at final delivery.
A modular system that grows
New stages, new products, new languages — added as modules to the same platform. Not a rebuild per event, and not a video that freezes the day it is exported.
Senior South African team, same time zone
Built in Johannesburg by a compact senior team, in your working hours — and on your stand on event day, with the spare hardware and the runbook.
We scope it in one call
One conversation is enough to tell you what your operation on a table would take. We reply within one business day.
If you can't fit it in a truck, put it on a table.
The pattern works anywhere the thing you sell lives inside a physical system too big, too remote or too dangerous to show a customer. Here is what would sit on the table.
Mining equipment & chemicals
The pit, the plant and every product working at the stage where it works — the version we have already built.
Water & wastewater treatment
A full treatment works on the table: intake, screening, biology, membranes, and where your dosing sits in it.
Energy & utilities
Generation to substation to grid, with the outage scenario your customer keeps asking about, run in front of them.
Oil, gas & petrochemicals
A refinery or a platform nobody can visit, at a scale you can lean over and point into.
Manufacturing & process plants
The line running end to end, with the bottleneck your product removes shown twice: before and after.
Logistics, ports & rail
A terminal working — cranes, yard, gate, rail head — so the throughput number finally has a picture attached to it.
Construction & infrastructure
The asset built in ninety seconds on a boardroom table, phase by phase, before ground is broken.
Agriculture & food processing
Field to silo to processing line, with the losses your solution prevents visible at each transfer.
Pharma & specialty chemicals
A plant with a clean-room heart you can walk around without a gowning procedure or an NDA.
Defence & heavy engineering
Platforms and systems that are impossible to bring to a hall, demonstrated at any scale you choose.
3D that teaches, and software people run every day.
A six-part gamified 3D experience, in production
For a financial services group we built a web-delivered 3D world where members explore themed spaces tied to their financial journey, with gamified progression and analytics tracking engagement across the whole experience. Same job as a value chain on a table: a complex proposition, a 3D world, interaction that teaches.
Read the case studyA documentation platform live inside a chemicals manufacturer
For a specialty-chemicals manufacturer we built a QR-enabled technical documentation platform for batch-specific SDSs, COAs and GHS-compliant labels. An estimated 42,000 sheets of paper saved annually and 10 to 15 minutes saved per batch, across hundreds of batches a month. Still in daily use.
See all past workIndustrial 3D that already ships to real users
A 360° plant walkthrough with a branching lock-out/tag-out module that issues a competency record, a site-progress time-machine, and 360° venue walkthroughs — all built here, all web-delivered, all live.
Industrial / SHEQ showcaseBrowser-delivered 3D we have shipped and left running: The Mine safety induction, Auxo World, and the 360° venue walkthroughs. The team is compact and senior, and all of it is built in South Africa: delivery lead, creative and experience design, 3D art lead, MR development lead, and QA/event readiness.
Answered before you have to ask.
Do visitors get motion sick?
This is mixed reality, not virtual reality. The visitor keeps seeing the actual room in colour passthrough — the floor, the table, your rep's face — and the model sits on the table in front of them. Nothing moves them through space, so the mismatch that causes discomfort never happens. There is no acclimatisation, no briefing, and the headset can be handed over in seconds.
What if the venue Wi-Fi is bad?
It does not matter. The experience runs entirely on the headsets, and a pre-configured travel router links the headsets, the facilitator tablet and the spectator screen on a private local network. There is no dependency on venue Wi-Fi, an external server or a PC. The only thing we need from a venue is power and a table position.
Can it run in a customer's boardroom?
Yes, and that is often where it does the most damage. The anchor works on any flat surface, so the same build that runs on your expo stand can put your operation on a customer's own boardroom table. It also runs longer-form in an innovation centre with every detail moment enabled.
Who owns the content?
You do. The commissioned content — experience design, storyboards, 3D assets and animations — is yours, and source files are handed over at final delivery. There are no per-user, per-view or per-event fees, and nothing in the platform requires an internet connection to run.
What if our plant changes, or we add products?
The value chain is built as a modular content system rather than one baked scene, so new stages, product placements, detail moments and languages are added as modules against a transparent rate card. A process change or a new product is an update to the platform, not a reason to rebuild it.
What do the other twenty people at the stand see?
A spectator screen mirroring what the person in the headset is looking at, and your facilitator narrating it from a tablet. Two or three people are inside the experience; the screen is what sells to the crowd around them, and it turns a queue into an audience.
Can several people be in it at once?
Yes. Co-located multi-headset means two to three visitors stand around the same table and see the same model at the same time. A customer delegation experiences it together and talks about it while they are still inside it, which is usually where the real conversation starts.
What happens between events?
The same build runs in an innovation centre in longer form with every detail moment enabled, and on a customer's own boardroom table for a one-to-one engagement. It is not an expo asset that sits in a crate for eleven months.
Do you support us on the day?
Yes. Handover includes an event-day runbook, a facilitator rehearsal with your own people, and training. Beyond that we offer on-call or on-site support for event days, with a technician, spare hardware, setup and teardown — from a team in the same country and the same time zone.
Which headset, and why?
Meta Quest 3 class devices. Best-in-class colour passthrough at a price that makes multiple units and a hot spare practical, fully standalone with no cables or tracking towers, mature co-located multi-user support so several people share the same model on the same table, and readily available and serviceable in South Africa. Higher-fidelity headsets cost several times more per unit and are a worse fit for shared, high-throughput event use.
How long does one demo take?
The guided pass is two to three minutes by design — short enough to hand the headset to the next person, long enough to be memorable. Depth is available on demand: each detail moment runs under a minute, so a five-minute conversation and a twenty-minute deep dive are both natural. Everything is reachable within a few taps on the facilitator tablet.
How do we start?
A fifteen-minute video call, or we bring the headsets to your boardroom and put the proof of concept on your table. Either way we scope it in one conversation, and we reply within one business day.
Not ready? Book a 15-minute video call instead.
Book a live demo — we bring the headsets.
We will come to your boardroom, put the proof of concept on your table, and talk through what your operation would look like on it. Fifteen minutes on a call works too, if you would rather see it before you clear a diary.
Not ready? Book a 15-minute video call instead.
We reply within one business day. Or use the contact page — either lands in the same inbox.