Virtual Reality-based technologies are being developed worldwide. If Europe is to maintain its competitiveness against international rivals, it needs to address and conquer new, emerging and important markets, such as the industrial sector.

Furthermore, the project addresses key issues of  usability, interoperability and affordability, which are important for product success. Additional issues involve modifications to plants for new processes adaptations and plant recovering from technical obsolescence. The deep user involvement at all stages of technical development also guarantees that the final product will be user-oriented and viable.

Thanks to the dimension of the consortium, VIRTHUALIS technology, whether gaining its ambitious aims, will have a great chance to become a standard EU-wide. In that sense the potentiality for policy makers are inherently huge since the technology will easily be recognised as tool of reference. Regulatory bodies, emergency services, as well as industries in those domains where safety is  critical for the survival of the productive process, will have a common tool to work  with and share positions during the development of EU policies.