Mixed Reality Experiences: the mixed reality experiences that impact
Mixed reality enters workshops, museums, showrooms, and industrial training. This guide lists concrete experiences : to play, create, or work differently.
For the curious → For organizations →For the curious
What is a mixed reality experience?
An operator places their hands on a machine they have never seen. A visitor observes a model from the 17th century with overlaid animations. These situations share a characteristic: digital content overlays the physical environment, without erasing it.
Virtual Reality — VR
Total immersion
The user enters an entirely digital world. The real environment disappears. Simulation without physical constraints.
Augmented Reality — AR
2D overlay
Digital elements are displayed overlaid on the real world. No deep spatial anchoring — no physical interaction between the two layers.
Mixed Reality — MR
Spatial anchoring
Digital objects anchor in real space. They react to surfaces, distances, and movements. A wall remains a wall — but can become an active obstacle or an information panel.
Mixed reality does not supplant the real environment. It adds a layer of useful information — anchored, contextual, interactive.
Selection
The best mixed reality experiences to try
SkyRunner: Drone Hero
Your living room becomes a mixed reality drone field. Missions, battles, racing — enemies emerge from your real furniture.
General public · Quest 3 / 3S
Ocean Rift
An XR aquarium in your physical space. Whales, sharks, and rays at life size. Used in libraries and museums.
Families · Museums · Quest
Guardian of Realms
Real-time MR combat: creatures pass through your physical walls. Scene mapping of the Quest 3 serves as the foundation for gameplay. Free.
Players · Quest 3 / 3S · Free
Figmin XR
Spatial sandbox: compose, animate, and share scenes in mixed reality. Used in education and creative design.
Creatives · Educators · QuestVermillion
Oil painting in VR with physical simulation of mixing. The painting gesture is faithfully reproduced in an immersive space.
Artists · Design schools
Ghostbusters: Rise of the Ghost Lord
Cooperative multiplayer experience: ghosts occupy your real space. Scene mapping makes characters pass through your walls.
Players · Event · Quest
Puzzling Places
3D puzzle in mixed reality. Models of real monuments fragment and float in your room. Gentle MR onboarding, ideal for beginners.
General public · Cultural mediation
Demeo Battles
Cooperative strategy game: the board sits on a real surface. Players move from their physical positions in the room.
Players · Shared experiencePanorama
What types of MR experiences exist?
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Gaming & divertissement
Mixed reality transforms the user's room into a playground. Enemies emerge from furniture. The table becomes a board. SkyRunner, Guardian of Realms, Ghostbusters, and Demeo Battles represent this genre.
02
Creativity & art
Tools like Figmin XR and Vermillion allow you to compose, paint, and sculpt in a space that blends physical and digital. These applications find their place in visual arts education and product design.
03
Productivité & spatial computing
Mixed reality positions information panels and dashboards in the workspace. The concept of spatial computing — popularized by the Apple Vision Pro — is based on this principle: each piece of data is attached to a specific physical context.
04
Professional uses
Organizations use mixed reality to train operators on rare equipment, guide a hands-free quality inspection, or project a full-size product in a showroom. These use cases address constraints of time, cost, or safety.
The same interface. A different register.
Consumer experiences rely on the same technical architectures as the tools deployed in industrial production. The difference is not in the technology. It is in the use.
For organizations
Why organizations are interested in mixed reality
An Airbus operator learning a complex wiring gesture. A retail manager presenting a product without a physical prototype. A technician receiving annotations from an expert 800 kilometers away. Mixed reality anchors information where the operator needs it.
Retail
Commerce & marques
Zara, IKEA, and LEGO use AR and MR experiences to visualize products in the real space before purchase. IKEA Place reduces returns by 17 % on tested references. Demonstration without a physical prototype is becoming a standard.
Industry
Operator training
Myxed supports Air France, Valeo, and KNDS on immersive training programs. Documented results: reduction of the time to competence by 40 to 60 %, decrease in errors on low-frequency actions.
Culture
Musées & patrimoine
The Plans-Reliefs Museum at Les Invalides uses HoloLens headsets to overlay historical animations on models of fortified cities. The visitor reads the story on the object itself, without leaving the physical room.
B2B Showroom
Product presentation
Audi presents vehicles in full configuration — colors, options, dimensions — without storing a physical demonstration fleet. The presentation cost drops. The decision quality rises.
Event
Field engagement
MR experiences become engagement devices at trade shows. A 4-minute demonstration on Quest 3 captures attention better than a screen or a PDF. The memory is sensory.
9.27 billion USD
Global MR market — 2025
Current size of the mixed reality market
142 billion USD
Projection 2034
Fortune Business Insights — annual growth ~35 %
Source : Fortune Business Insights, Mixed Reality Market Size & Share, 2025–2034.
Selection criteria
How to choose the right mixed reality experience?
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The target use
Game: precise passthrough and low latency. Training: stability of spatial anchors and compatibility with production environments. These two profiles do not have the same optimal hardware.
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Available hardware
Meta Quest 3 and Quest 3S: consumer reference in 2026, color passthrough, depth sensor. For industrial or medical uses, the HoloLens 2 and Varjo XR-4 headsets remain the professional references.
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The physical space
SkyRunner or Demeo Battles require 2 to 4 m² of free space. Industrial annotation applications work in restricted spaces, on a machine or a workbench.
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The objective
Discovery — short experience, low onboarding, Quest 3. Operator training — custom application, assessment scenarios, traceability. Ongoing production — integration into existing systems: CMMS, ERP, quality protocols.
Myxed — Industrial mixed reality studio
Are you considering a mixed reality project?
Myxed designs custom mixed reality experiences for industry and organizations. No catalog, no generic demonstration. The studio frames the use case, prototypes the device, and deploys it in field environments.
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