SpatialLab

Portfolio

What the lab
is building.

Extended reality, applied AI and interactive systems, built and tested with real users.

Open Virtual Agent Research Platform

Open Virtual Agent Research Platform

An open-source platform for research and experimentation with intelligent virtual agents in Extended Reality (VR/AR) environments.

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Web Virtual Agent Framework

Web Virtual Agent Framework

An interactive conversational interface that personifies AI with a real-time animated avatar, complemented by an optional LESCO sign language translation module for video calls.

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SPOC Power Skills: CenfoCampus RPG

SPOC Power Skills: CenfoCampus RPG

SPOC Power Skills: CenfoCampus RPG transforms essential soft skills training for engineering into an immersive RPG-inspired self-learning platform within Moodle. Through a futuristic narrative, gamified mechanics, and interactive challenges, Cenfotec University revolutionizes the development of human, emotional, and leadership capabilities for the modern workforce.

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Hatillo Verde

Hatillo Verde

An interactive Unity WebGL experience exploring urban ecological restoration and the protection of endangered endemic species across time, accessible directly through the web browser.

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Emotional Tracking

Emotional Tracking

An adaptive Extended Reality (XR) framework that senses user emotions in real time using Meta Quest 3 to personalize virtual environments, pacing, and avatar dialogues.

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Showroom CENFOTEC

Showroom CENFOTEC

A mixed reality showroom presenting CENFOTEC University’s academic programs through immersive environments inspired by Costa Rican landscapes and powered by hand tracking navigation.

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Mundo Aventura

Mundo Aventura

A WebAR treasure hunt that transforms visits to the Children's Museum into an interactive adventure with 3D dinosaurs and face filters, no app downloads required.

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Juguetes del Parqueo

Juguetes del Parqueo

Juguetes del Parqueo is a Web Augmented Reality (WebAR) experience created for the Children's Museum of Costa Rica. The platform transforms the physical exhibition into an interactive digital treasure hunt accessible directly through mobile browsers without requiring app downloads. By discovering virtual objects and animated characters, the initiative entertains families while strategically guiding foot traffic toward less frequented zones of the venue.

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Frequently asked questions

What kind of projects does SpatialLab build?

Applied research projects in extended reality and applied AI: intelligent virtual agents, immersive and augmented reality experiences for museums and cultural spaces, mixed reality showrooms, and gamified learning platforms. The eight the lab has published are listed on this page, each with its own detail page.

What technologies do the projects use?

Unity and Unity WebGL, Meta Quest 3 headsets and XREAL smart glasses, browser-based augmented reality through 8th Wall and A-Frame, Three.js, and language, speech recognition and speech synthesis models for the conversational agents. Transport for the agent platform runs over WebSockets and ZeroMQ.

Can any of the projects be tried or reused?

Some run directly in a browser: Hatillo Verde is published at neoecosistemashatillo.ucenfotec.ac.cr. The Open Virtual Agent Research Platform (OVARP) is an open-source research platform, including its Unity reference clients for Meta Quest 3 and XREAL, so other laboratories can replicate experiments with it.

Who are the projects built with?

With academic partners, such as Sapienza University of Rome on Emotional Tracking, and with cultural and institutional partners in Costa Rica, such as the Children's Museum (Museo de los Niños) on Mundo Aventura and Juguetes del Parqueo, and CENFOTEC University itself.