2025 · FundingBusiness Finland R2B funding
Research-to-business project building on 10 years of research into motion sickness reduction and novel VR interaction.
R2B project
VR withoutmotion sickness
Games, training simulations, and more, like you've never experienced them. Immersive VR without motion sickness.
Funded by Business Finland and Aalto University · R2B project
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How does it work?
01 · Technology
Motion sickness caps the market.We solved it.
The problem
Up to
70%
of people suffer from VR motion sickness.
Up to 70% of people suffer from VR motion sickness.
Our solution
−94%
less motion sickness with our comfort tech.
02 · Projects
Making the impossibleplayable in VR
Game 01
Souls-like combat
Proof-of-concept prototype
The first true Souls-like boss fight experience in VR, with dodge rolls and cinematic visceral attacks. All without motion sickness.
Souls-likeMelee combat
Game 02
Immersive gunplay
Proof-of-concept prototype
Exploration and gunplay with telekinetic powers.
No cumbersome teleporting or nauseating locomotion.
Factory floor
Studio visit
XR Spaces · Live now
Ukemi XR Spaces
For business
Make any space available in immersive VR, without motion sickness. Tours, exhibitions, training and more, right in the browser.
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Training · Live now
Immersive training
Dual-use prototype
Practice finding your way to the nearest bomb shelter, in immersive VR, without motion sickness. A real Helsinki street, rebuilt for VR from the city's open data.
WayfindingCivil defenceOpen city data
284 street surfaces · 549 fixtures · 32 trees · 7 buildings · rebuilt in days
3D city model © City of Helsinki, CC BY 4.0
Launch list
Experience it yourself
Playtest invites, demo updates and releases. That's all we send.
You're on the list.We'll write when there's something to play.
03 · AI-native production
Funded. Protected.AI‑native.
Backed by Business Finland and Aalto University, patents pending, built with our own AI tools.
2026 · IPPatents as the licensable moat
The comfort methods behind our games, covered by patent applications and licensable to XR studios and platforms.
2 patents pendingMay 2026 · PipelineAI-native dev pipeline
Humans decide, agents build. Our own harness keeps them in sync and token-efficient.
10+ small PoCs · 2 production-scale games
May 2026 · ShowcaseSupercell Games First
Our Souls-like prototype took the stage at Supercell's Games First demo session.
One of the demos on stageAug 2026 · TestingUkemi Agent playtesting
A vision model plus a fast decision model: reflexes to play, reasoning to judge. Every code change gets a playtest, closing the AI game-dev loop.
Playtest on every changeExhibitions
Training
Home tours
ExperiencesOct 2026 · For businessUkemi XR Spaces for Business
New proof-of-concept prototype: make any space explorable in immersive VR, without motion sickness. Tours, exhibitions, training and more, right in the browser.
Live now · try it aboveCustom XR
Have a space or an idea?
Send us a scan, a model or just a brief. We build the XR experience, ready for anyone from a link or a headset.
Research100+ publications
Ten years of XR research.
2026[1] CHI PLAYElden VR: Reducing Motion Sickness in Virtual Reality Melee Combat Best paper honorable mention
2026[2] EurographicsRobo-Saber: Generating and Simulating Virtual Reality Players
2025[3] FDGSouls-VR: Dodge-Rolling in Virtual Reality ↗
2024[4] CHIWAVE: Anticipatory Movement Visualization for VR Dancing
2024[5] UISTSIM2VR: Towards Automated Biomechanical Testing in VR ↗
2020[6] CHI PLAY3PP-R: Natural Movement in 3rd Person VR ↗
2016[7] Academic MindtrekVirtual ball catching performance in different camera views
TeamAalto University · Espoo, Finland
Games veterans meet VR scientists.
Perttu Hämäläinen
Research lead
Games professor at Aalto University. 25 years of games and XR research, 100+ papers. 6 years in the game industry. Co-founded two companies.
Jyri Partanen
Business lead
20+ years at Sulake, Rovio and Ubisoft. Founded five companies.
Markus Laattala
Tech & design lead
PhD on VR gameplay and movement.
Markus Kirjonen
Researcher · LIT-VR inventor
VR researcher. Finalizing PhD on VR motion sickness.
Hedieh Abdolvahabi
Visual & UX
Game artist and 3D generalist.
Jinda Li
AI · Creative technologist
AI development, game and product design.
Yu-Jung Liu
Researcher · Sound & media
Leads yet unreleased "Project V" development. Sound designer and media editor.