REALVIRTUAL LTD

What REALVIRTUAL LTD does

realvirtual GmbH (operating as realvirtual.io) is a German software vendor that builds an industrial digital twin and virtual commissioning platform on top of the Unity real-time 3D engine. The company, founded in 2018 as Game4Automation and rebranded in 2021, sells to machine builders, automation engineers, system integrators, and factory operators who need to visualize, simulate, and validate industrial automation systems before and after hardware deployment. Its core products — realvirtual Starter (free on Unity Asset Store) and realvirtual Professional (€1,250 net per developer perpetual) — provide CAD import (STEP, JT, USD, GLB, 3MF), drive and sensor behavior modeling, robot inverse kinematics including closed-chain parallel kinematics, and a deep library of 25+ native interfaces to major PLCs (Siemens S7, Beckhoff TwinCAT, OPC UA, Modbus, EtherNet/IP, Mitsubishi, KEBA, Bosch Rexroth) and robot controllers (ABB, KUKA, Fanuc, Universal Robots, Denso, SEW, igus, Wandelbots).

The company's monetization combines one-time perpetual Unity-based licenses, recurring annual subscriptions for realvirtual WEB (€1,920/developer/year plus tiered deployment fees), and professional services for training and pilot projects. Distribution runs through three channels: the Unity Asset Store (which provides top-of-funnel reach into Unity's developer ecosystem), a direct sales motion for enterprise and custom deployments, and a global network of regional sales and service partners spanning Japan, Korea, China, Turkey, and South America alongside German-based implementation partners such as CMC Engineers. The platform is positioned around open architecture (full C# source, AGPL web viewer, GLB exchange format) and multi-platform deployment (Windows, Linux, macOS, WebGL, iOS, Android, Meta Quest, HoloLens, Apple Vision Pro), with no runtime royalties on shipped applications.

Beyond its core commissioning toolkit, realvirtual has layered AI capabilities that materially differentiate it from a typical Unity asset: an open-source MCP Server with 150+ tools enabling AI agents (Claude, Cursor, GitHub Copilot) to drive the Unity Editor and realvirtual WEB in real time; an AI Builder add-on that generates synthetic training data and trains YOLO models for industrial vision; and a RAG-based knowledge retrieval assistant for 3D-HMI documentation queries. The company holds Unity Verified Solution Partner status and is referenced by named industrial users including SEW-EURODRIVE, Mauser Packaging Solutions, and ModuMach.

Name

REALVIRTUAL LTD

Legal name

realvirtual GmbH

Website

https://realvirtual.io

Company type

Private

Founded year

2018

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

realvirtual GmbH builds a Unity-based industrial digital twin and virtual commissioning platform, offering 25+ native PLC/robot interfaces, browser-based 3D-HMI delivery, and AI-driven tools for machine builders, automation engineers, and factory operators across Europe, Asia, and the Americas.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Industrial Digital Twin Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (5132), Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151), Computer Systems Design Services (541512)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373)

akta.pro primary industry

Digital Twin for Manufacturing & Production Optimization (IMAIAMAO)

Keywords

• Industrial digital twins
• Virtual commissioning
• 3D simulation software
• Browser-based HMI
• PLC integration

Headquarters

HQ city

Sinzheim

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Software Licenses: One-time perpetual license sales for Unity-based products. Professional tier at €1,250 net per developer. Starter tier free on Unity Asset Store. Runtime builds royalty-free.
2. realvirtual WEB Commercial Licensing: Annual development licenses at €1,920 per developer per year, plus deployment fees: €300 one-time per delivered machine, €3,000/year per internal site, €4,900/year per public application.
3. Unity Asset Store Distribution: Revenue share through Unity Asset Store distribution for Starter and Professional products. Unity handles payment processing and customer data.
4. Professional Services: Training (on-site or remote), pilot projects (one-day digital twin assessment), and custom development services for missing interfaces or features.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion4 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

realvirtual.io develops and sells Unity-based industrial digital twin software for virtual commissioning, plant simulation, and 3D machine visualization. The platform provides 25+ native PLC and robot controller interfaces, CAD import (STEP, JT, GLB), deterministic kinematics, and AI integration via an open MCP Server. Browser-based delivery is enabled through realvirtual WEB, built on Three.js and React, with no installation or login required.

Product overview

realvirtual.io is an industrial digital twin and virtual commissioning platform built on Unity, offering a modular product architecture. The core consists of realvirtual Starter (free entry) and realvirtual Professional (€1,250 per developer), which provide CAD import, drive/sensor behavior modeling, robot inverse kinematics, and 25+ industrial PLC/robot interfaces. These Unity-based products enable sales visualization, plant simulation, virtual commissioning, and AI training workflows. Browser-based delivery is handled by realvirtual WEB (open source AGPL or commercial), connected to PLCs via native gateway realvirtual CONNECT. Specialized add-ons include AI Builder for synthetic vision training data and Simulation for conveyor-based material handling. The platform positions itself as the 'leading open platform for industrial digital twins' with full source code access and no runtime fees for delivered applications.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• realvirtual Starter: Free Unity-based entry-level digital twin solution available on Unity Asset Store, including Siemens S7 TCP-IP interface.
• realvirtual Professional
• realvirtual WEB
• realvirtual CONNECT
• realvirtual Simulation
• AIBuilder
• CADLink
• MCP Server
• Game4Automation

Products and services

• realvirtual Starter Free entry-level digital twin framework available on Unity Asset Store, providing core realvirtual.io functionality including Siemens S7 TCP-IP interface, Siemens SIMIT Shared Memory interface, and igus REBEL interface. Targets hobbyists, students, and evaluators seeking to prototype digital twins.
• realvirtual Professional Complete digital twin solution priced at €1,250 net one-time per developer. Includes CADLink CAD interface (STEP, 3MF), 25+ industrial interfaces (OPC UA, TwinCAT/ADS, MQTT, KUKA, Fanuc, ABB, etc.), robot inverse kinematics, GLB export to realvirtual WEB, MCP Server AI integration, and professional tools including Kinematic Tool, Performance Optimizer, and Selection Window.
• realvirtual WEB Browser-based 3D visualization and Digital Twin delivery platform built on Three.js and React. Loads GLB-based open format machine models with live PLC connection via WebSocket and realvirtual CONNECT. Available as open source (AGPL-3.0) or commercial license at €1,920 per developer per year plus deployment fees.
• realvirtual CONNECT Native PLC gateway providing live PLC signal connectivity to realvirtual WEB in the browser. Supports Siemens S7, Beckhoff TwinCAT ADS, OPC UA, MQTT, Modbus, and EtherNet/IP. Free tier limited to 20 concurrent signals; commercial tiers remove signal limitations.
• realvirtual.io AI Builder AI-powered synthetic training data generator for industrial vision systems. Enables one-click YOLO model training for object detection, classification, segmentation, and pose estimation. Generates large-scale synthetic training datasets and deploys as standard ONNX models.
• realvirtual.io Simulation Conveyor system simulation add-on for material flow modeling including straight conveyors, curved conveyors, chain transfers, guide rolls, shoe sorters, cross belt sorters, and spiral conveyors. Compatible with Professional and Starter editions.
• realvirtual.io Industrial Metaverse AR/VR integration module for mixed reality applications on Meta Quest devices. Enhanced AR/VR scene integration with XR placement system, passthrough functionality, and depth occlusion controls. Requires Meta XR SDK 68.0 or later.
• realvirtual MCP Server Open-source Model Context Protocol server with 150+ tools enabling AI agents (Claude, Cursor, GitHub Copilot) to control the Unity Editor and realvirtual WEB in real time. Connects to both realvirtual.io in Unity and realvirtual WEB in the browser, enabling AI agents to navigate scenes, drive actuators, read sensors, write PLC signals, and automate testing.

Quantifiable outcome

• Reduce on-site commissioning time by up to 75%
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers7 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration25 records

AI capability8 records

Feature8 records

Partnerships

Ten partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Unity TechnologiescoreTechnology or IntegrationUnity serves as the foundational real-time 3D engine for realvirtual's digital twin platform. Unity Verified Solution Partner status indicates deep technical integration and certification. Unity Asset Store is primary distribution channel.
• CMC EngineerscoreImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerCertified service partner providing implementation, consulting, and system integration services for realvirtual deployments in Germany and Europe.
• NGEN2minorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerService partner providing engineering and implementation services for digital twin projects.
• REEB EngineeringminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerService partner providing engineering expertise for realvirtual implementations.
• ikazinminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerService partner providing digital twin implementation services in South America.
• JNE WORKSminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerService partner providing implementation and integration services in South Korea.
• DensocoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorSales partner for Japan region. Denso Robotics integration supported through realvirtual interfaces. Regional distribution partnership for digital twin products.
• SmartScapeminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorSales partner for Japan providing local distribution and support for realvirtual products.
• UnprominorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorSales partner for Turkey providing local distribution and support.
• Zhixia Wisdom IntelligencecoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorAuthorized partner for China market (realvirtual.com.cn). Provides local sales, support, and distribution for Chinese customers.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Emerging players

• NVIDIA Omniverse: NVIDIA Omniverse is an emerging industrial digital twin platform built on USD and RTX rendering, with industrial simulation and synthetic data generation capabilities. It is thematically adjacent to realvirtual and several partners (e.g., Unity) compete/collaborate with Omniverse; it represents both a potential channel and a competitive threat as enterprises evaluate industrial digital twin stacks.
• Wandelbots: Wandelbots provides a robot-agnostic programming and simulation platform (Wandelbots NOVA) that overlaps with realvirtual's vendor-neutral robot simulation use cases. realvirtual already integrates with Wandelbots NOVA, indicating direct overlap in robot programming and digital twin workflows.

Direct peers

• KUKA.Sim: KUKA.Sim is KUKA's simulation software for KUKA robot cells, including KUKA.OfficeLite virtual controller integration. It overlaps with realvirtual's KUKA OfficeLite interface and virtual commissioning capability, but is dedicated to the KUKA ecosystem.
• Visual Components: Visual Components provides 3D manufacturing simulation software for plant layout, production simulation, and offline robot programming. It is a direct peer to realvirtual in industrial 3D simulation, plant design and virtual commissioning, though Visual Components' roots are in dedicated simulation tooling rather than Unity-based authoring.
• FANUC ROBOGUIDE: FANUC ROBOGUIDE is FANUC's PC-based robot simulation tool for FANUC robotics, including multi-robot cell support. It competes with realvirtual's Fanuc interface and broader virtual commissioning offering, but is specialized to FANUC hardware.
• ABB RobotStudio: ABB RobotStudio is ABB's native robot simulation and virtual commissioning environment for ABB robot cells. It directly overlaps with realvirtual's ABB interfaces and virtual commissioning positioning, though ABB's tool is optimized primarily for ABB robots rather than vendor-neutral multi-vendor cells.

Broad incumbents

• Dassault Systèmes (DELMIA / 3DEXPERIENCE): Dassault Systèmes' DELMIA solutions cover digital manufacturing, robotics simulation and virtual commissioning as part of the broader 3DEXPERIENCE platform. It competes with realvirtual in industrial simulation, virtual commissioning and digital twin delivery, particularly for large enterprise customers standardized on Dassault's PLM stack.
• Rockwell Automation (Emulate3D): Rockwell Automation acquired Emulate3D, a digital twin and virtual commissioning platform widely used in logistics and manufacturing. As a broad incumbent, Rockwell bundles Emulate3D with its controls and PLC portfolio, making it a competitor for the same virtual commissioning use cases that realvirtual serves, but with much deeper enterprise reach.
• Hexagon (MSC Software / Nexus): Hexagon's manufacturing intelligence division (including acquired MSC Software assets) provides simulation, CAE and digital twin tools for industrial customers. As a broad incumbent, Hexagon competes in manufacturing simulation and engineering analytics, with deeper enterprise distribution than realvirtual.
• Siemens (Tecnomatix / Process Simulate): Siemens' Tecnomatix portfolio (including Process Simulate) is the de facto standard for virtual commissioning of robotic lines, particularly automotive body-in-white. Several realvirtual customers (e.g., the isaaclegene automotive line recreation) explicitly compare against Process Simulate, making Siemens the dominant incumbent competitor.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• GitHubgithub.com/game4automation
• YouTubeyoutube.com/@realvirtualio
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/37470250
• Instagraminstagram.com/realvirtual.io

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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