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Virtual ExperienceSeptember 16, 2026

Trusted Governance, Smarter Collaboration, Powered by AI

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With this release, every user can work smarter, not harder. Interact with AI that adapts to your role, access data you can trust and use instantly, keep processes connected without extra steps, and rely on precision built into every product visual. 
Enjoy less friction in daily work, and spend more time on what matters.


Industrial AI Experience

Virtual Companions: Focus your companion experiences, simplify platform administration, and scale AI capacity more easily.

  • Personal Virtual Companion  – Select a preferred Companion and tap into its specialized competencies, while others step aside for a focused experience.
  • Conversational Platform  – AURA tracks user counts, manages roles, monitors storage, and completes tasks via conversation.
  • Blue Tokens  – The single consumption unit for Industrial AI on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. One unit, valid across all the Virtual Companions: AURA, LEO and MARIE.
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Enterprise Data Science

Trust insights, control access, and maintain healthy pipelines.

AURA Business Data Analysis Competency – new enhancements

AURA Business Data Analysis reveals knowledge from structured and textual data, saving time. Configure Business Data Analysis quickly in Data Perspective Studio. Verify answers directly in your dashboard. Use predefined queries, connected structured and textual data, and a trusted source within your Data Perspective to reveal knowledge faster and cut manual search time by up to 95%.

  • Mixed structured and unstructured data sources – Use Text Intelligence Studio to join structured and textual data, revealing knowledge faster.
BDA – Mixed structured and unstructured data sources
  • Simplified configuration – Set up and manage Business Data Analysis quickly with its entry form in Data Perspective Studio.
BDA – Simplified configuration
  • Seamless dashboard interaction – Verify answers directly in your enterprise dashboard while maintaining context.
BDA – Seamless dashboard interaction

Data Engineer

  • Scoped Index Units – Derive a new index configuration from an existing one to precisely control the data each user can access based on role, reduce admin work, and scale Data Perspectives more easily across engineering.
Data Engineer – Scoped Index Units

Data Operations Engineer

  • New Application: Data Factory Monitoring – Track job status, speed, data freshness and row volume in real time, and catch pipeline problems before they cascade with automatic alerts
Data Operation Engineer – New Application: Data Factory Monitoring

Collaborative Business Processes

Connect workflows, AI agents and humans.

Business Process Player

Business Process Player - Comment Threads
Business Process Player – Comment Threads

Business Process Designer

  • Out-of-the-box Connectors:
    • Leverage any Virtual Companion directly from ITEROP BPM.
    • Connect ITEROP to your existing change management, user groups, team boards and product data, no custom integration required.
  • Synchronized roles – Sync roles and permissions automatically.
  • Drag and drop 3DS objects – Drag and drop 3DS objects into widgets.
Business Process Designer – Drag and drop 3DS Object in ITEROP widgets

Collaborative Knowledge

Organize community knowledge, make it easy to build together, and match it to how each team works.

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  • Content pinning – Pin updates and decisions across Communities Timeline views and Conversations so they stay easy to find. 
  • Purpose-built Communities – Rename Ideas and Posts with custom icons and colors to match your team’s language and workflows.
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Interactive Experiences and 3D Stories

Build richer content and connect quickly and easily with any audience.

  • Material overrides in 3DLive – Adjust colors, finishes and material options in published immersive experiences without changing the underlying Virtual Twin.
Interactive experiences & 3D Stories – Material overrides in 3DLive
  • Floating media in 3DStory – Add GIFs and YouTube videos in floating mode alongside images, shapes and 3D content.
Interactive experiences & 3D Stories – Floating media in 3DStory
  • Embedded QR codes in 3DStory – Link any story to a website or online experience so audiences connect with a single scan.
Interactive experiences & 3D Stories - Embedded QR codes in 3DStory
Interactive experiences & 3D Stories – Embedded QR codes in 3DStory

3D Content Creation & Play

Product Communicator

Precise animation and scalable illustrations cut the rework behind every product communication.

  • Precision pivot point adjustment – Set and snap pivot points directly inside xHighlight so parts move exactly as intended – no engineering rework required.
Product Communicator – Precision pivot point adjustment
  • Technical illustrations that scale without limits – Every scene element, including scene-in-scene and diggers, is now included in vector graphics, so illustrations stay sharp at any zoom level.
Product Communicator – Technical illustrations that scale without limits

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