Every two years, the ESA XR Conference brings together professionals and experts working with Extended Reality (XR) and related technologies in the space sector.

The 2026 edition took place on 17-18 March at ESA’s European Astronaut Centre (EAC) in Cologne, Germany.

For over two decades, the European Space Agency (ESA) has explored the potential of Extended Reality (XR) – a group of technologies encompassing Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and Mixed Reality (MR) – to enhance its operations.

These immersive technologies bridge the digital and physical worlds, enabling more intuitive workflows, improving collaboration, reducing costs, and supporting mission planning, training, and data interpretation.

For more information about Extended Reality at ESA, visit  xr.esa.int.