SILMO is the international meeting place for the optics and eyewear industry

SILMO Paris reflects the entire optics and eyewear industry, with players large and small, historic and new, representing the entire value chain. The exhibitors’ contribution to the success of the show is immense: the quality of their stands, products and services underlines the extent to which they are investing in the future at the sector’s benchmark show.

SILMO Next was born of SILMO Paris’s ambition to invite the profession to project itself into the future, to help opticians better understand and prepare for their own future.

A laboratory of ideas, a space for multi-disciplinary exchanges, a showcase for creation and innovation, the SILMO Next site is structured around 5 areas that project us into a techno-responsible future.

We’re on a mission to transform the way hard skills are created and learned for high-risk, practical industries. We’re committed to enhancing safety and efficiency while championing businesses to embrace a culture of continuous learning and development. Through our innovative Luminous XR platform we equip creators, developers, and enterprises with the tools to create, manage, and distribute unparalleled virtual training experiences.

FLOW, for Unity is our visual scripting tool that enables creators and developers to easily create high-quality XR training content simply by dragging and dropping nodes to create steps. Our in-house team use Flow to create XR content for our global clients.

PORTAL is our all-in-one learning management platform where trainers and trainees can access classes, personalised schedules and in-depth analytics on individual trainee progress.

MARKETPLACE is where you can purchase our quality off-the-shelf content, so you can jump straight into VR training.

TU Wien (TUW) represents the largest Austrian University of Science and Technology. Conducting research, teaching, and innovation under the motto “Technology for people” for more than 200 years. With its eight faculties (57 institutes and 2800 researchers), TUW covers the whole value-added chain within the classical engineering and natural science fields, and fundamental and applied research projects provide the newest findings and innovations.

We present two novel, action-origami-inspired haptic devices: the Zipper Flower Tube simulates different stiffness sensations with a single actuator, and the Shiftly simulates different shapes and surfaces with three small stepper motors. Our solution provides a high-fidelity, energy-efficient, and low-cost solution for interacting with virtual materials and objects in VR.