Sense Experience

These three technologies work together to move manufacturers from selling standalone products to delivering intelligent, connected solutions. Software provides continuous connectivity and operational data. Sense computing offers intuitive ways to visualize and interact with digital assets. AI turns that data into insights, automation and business value.

Sense Experience is built for industries where complexity, precision and collaboration are non-negotiable. Manufacturing teams use immersive guidance to cut training time, reduce errors and raise first-time quality on the shop floor. Aerospace and transportation organizations review assembly plans and production layouts in full spatial context before anything physical is built, shortening new product introduction and breaking down silos between engineering and manufacturing. In healthcare and life sciences, surgical teams and researchers interact with patient-specific simulations and virtual twins of biologics the same way factory operators interact with industrial equipment; grounded in science, not approximation. Consumer packaged goods teams visualize packaging in realistic environments and map its full life cycle, from concept through recycling, supporting sustainable design decisions early, when they cost least to change. Across all these sectors, the common thread is the same: real-world data, scientific accuracy and AI reasoning that doesn't guess but reasons from a trusted foundation.

Sense Experience isn't a separate tool bolted onto your workflow; it's built directly into the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, the same foundation engineering, manufacturing and supply chain teams already use. So, every immersive scenario you run stays connected to live product data. When design data changes, the virtual scenario updates automatically. There's no manual re-syncing, no disconnected exports and no version confusion. This is what digital continuity looks like in practice: a single, trusted version of the product that flows from early design through production and into the hands of operators on the shop floor. Sense Experience sits at the point where that connected data becomes something people can see, navigate and act on; turning platform intelligence into real, spatial understanding.

Sense Experience is a core pillar of 3D UNIV+RSES, the seventh generation of world representation on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. Unlike metaverse concepts built around disconnected virtual spaces, or AR tools that simply overlay images onto a screen, Sense Experiences connect the real and virtual worlds through science-based virtual twins that are constantly recalibrated with real-world data. You don't just view a model; you step inside it, interact with it using natural senses and behaviors, and act on it with the confidence that what you're experiencing reflects actual conditions. That grounding in scientific reality is what sets Sense Experience apart: every immersive scenario carries the accuracy that production, clinical and engineering work demand.

With Sense Experience, the shift from viewing to experiencing is already underway, and it's moving faster than most organizations expect. Today, immersive scenarios help teams visualize and validate what isn't yet physically present, from production line layouts to surgical procedures and complex product assemblies. But the next step is more significant: connecting a physical object back to its virtual twin in real time, so you can review something in the real world and immediately see its full history, current status and projected future. That's where spatial computing becomes truly powerful. It's not just as a visualization tool, but is an active reasoning layer that connects knowledge, data and action across the value chain.