Industrial XR
Remote-assist and guided-servicing apps for headsets and smart glasses: live video, expert annotations, CAD overlays anchored to real machines.
Limbheim Studio · Research & Development
Where game art meets applied engineering.
Limbheim R&D is the engineering lab of Limbheim Studio. We take the real-time 3D craft behind stylized AAA game art and turn it into tools, pipelines and XR products — for games and for industry.
80+artists & tech artists in the studio
2019Limbheim Studio founded
UE · Unityreal-time engines in production
XR · AI · Mechand growing R&D disciplines
What we work on
Many research tracks, one production backbone.
Every track is grounded in something a game studio already does daily — assets, engines, rigs, pipelines — then pushed into new territory.
Real-time 3D pipelines
CAD-to-engine conversion, asset optimisation, LODs and stylized look-dev — the studio's Unreal and Unity know-how, packaged for products.
Rigging & animation tech
Mesh-rig tooling, mocap-to-rig retargeting and procedural motion that shortens the path from concept art to an animated character.
AI-assisted art tooling
Locally-run generative and vision models that support artists — reference, cleanup, segmentation, recognition — never replacing the hand-made style.
Optimisation & game maths
Scheduling, multi-objective optimisation and simulation — from game economy and win-distribution tuning to studio capacity planning.
AI pipelines & agentic workflows
Multi-step AI pipelines and tool-using agents that plan, call services and hand work back to people — for content production, QA, research and back-office automation.
Mechatronics
Hardware that moves and senses: embedded control, sensors, CAD and 3D-printed mechanisms, and the software and XR interfaces that drive them.
Studio platforms
Internal portals that run a distributed art team: talent, production tracking and review — tested daily on Limbheim's own crew.
Why a game-art studio does R&D
The hard part of XR and 3D products is the content.
Most engineering teams can stream video or load a model. Few can make 3D content that is readable, lightweight and beautiful on a headset at 72 fps.
Limbheim has spent years delivering stylized characters, environments, VFX and Unreal integration for titles such as Diablo IV, Dota 2 and Eternal Strands. The R&D lab puts engineers directly beside that production line.
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Art & conceptStyle development, concept, illustration
02
3D & tech artCharacters, props, environments, grooming, shaders
03
Engine integrationUnreal / Unity, VFX, animation
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R&D engineeringXR apps, pipelines, AI tooling, optimisation
Current work
Prototypes on the bench.
Early, honest, measured. Each prototype has a stage gate: keep going, change approach, or stop.
Exploration · 2026
XR remote servicing
Remote expert assistance for precision-equipment servicing: headset video and audio, expert web portal, CAD and manual lookup, 2D annotations, and a spatial track for overlays anchored to the machine — with tracking confidence always visible.
Working micro-POC
Quest part recognition
Photo-to-panel pipeline on Meta Quest with passthrough: an open-vocabulary detector identifies hardware components and answers questions only from verified source documents — no invented specs.
Internal tool
Rig & animation pipeline
Generate → cut → skeleton → animate → spritesheet. A web pipeline that rigs 2D characters and symbols, with jiggle physics and video mocap assist.
Research
Optimisation studio
Simulation and equalisation tools for game-maths and distributions, plus multi-objective scheduling methods drawn from academic logistics research.
How we engage
Evidence before estimates.
Scope
Pick 2–3 real tasks, the riskiest assumptions and a measurable demo plan.
Explore
Short prototype on real hardware. Measure latency, drift, failure and recovery.
Gate
Go, change approach or stop — with data and a draft MVP backlog.
Build
Bounded MVP with the studio's art team producing the content.
Collaborate
Have a problem that needs 3D, XR or a smarter pipeline?
Tell us what you're trying to build. We'll come back with the riskiest question and how to test it cheaply.