On Monday 12th January 2026, I participated in a panel with Dassault, the European Commission, Qualcomm, CNXR (french consortium of XR companies), it took place at Bercy. One of my teamates recorded through Zoom, and it was filmed with old HDW-F900-like cameras from the 2000s’ giving this weird and lovely VHS vibe.
The video is in French, but we discuss some interesting topics around the value chain of XR. There were 400 people in attendance for this event: https://evenium.events/rencontre-autour-des-technologies-immersives-et-univers-virtuel/agenda
I was happy to see the event itself, and its success, given it was gathering B2B players in XR (from agencies creating XR content to the final customers like Airbus/SNCF mostly from the French industry and some neighboring countries etc).
I try in the panel to express our views as a unique company in Europe building key components: MR headsets, and a mixed reality OS. How hard it is but how rewarding it can be when we see the full potential for these tools. I wish I could have said more but we only had one hour to share.
My closing comment is how VR for the masses is a failure from Meta, how we benefited incredible investments from it especially in the supply chain but ultimately it is not financial success so far. One day later, they are laying off more than a thousand people from this part of their business.
What is both a commercial and financial success right now is XR in the B2B world, where immediate value is generated with training and remote assistance, enhanced with AI on-device and in the cloud. The Lynx team has been focusing on that for more than 5 years, and in one week we will reveal an incredible future-proof product that will help deploy fleets of MR headsets in various industries.
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