Why?
There are 338 million visually impaired today, and despite all the technological advancements, the most used mobility solutions are the walking cane and the guide dog.
The guide dog is unanimously seen as a good option, but there are only 28,000 guide dogs to 338 million individuals with visual disabilities.
The flagship SME .lumen offers a solution that mimics the benefits of a guide dog without the drawbacks that make it a non-scalable solution.
About VR Health Champions
VR Health Champions is a €7.8 million initiative co-funded by the Interregional Innovation Investments (I3) instrument under the European Regional Development Fund. This three-year project accelerates the adoption of VR/ AR technologies in healthcare by addressing market barriers in less developed regions.
The initiative focuses on five flagship SMEs such as MEEVA (Italy), MedApp (Poland), Metaskills (Poland), .lumen (Romania) and Virtuleap (Portugal) that are driving advancement in medical diagnostics, therapies, surgeries, and healthcare training - while fostering knowledge transfer and creating funding opportunities to strengthen the European XR ecosystem.
The project is supported by a diverse network of healthcare units, research centres, universities, and industry leaders from Italy, Latvia, Hungary, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Belgium, and Germany. Instituto Pedro Nunes coordinates the initiative, which is co-ordinated by EIT Health InnoStars.
More about 2026 competition on VR Health Champions site
Why us?
We are a precision ML consultancy company where cross-domain depth replaces committee bandwidth: computer vision, edge deployment, and clinical understanding. We will design and optimize the monocular depth models that replace bulky 3D sensing hardware, making .lumen’s assistive glasses lighter, wearable, and truly all-day usable for the visually impaired.
For more information, visit vrhealthchampions.eu.