Virtual U-Space

Kurzfassung

The rapid emergence of U-space and the integration of autonomous drones into urban environments present not only technical challenges but also significant societal and infrastructural ones. A crucial step in this transition is ensuring that all involved parties can understand this new dimension of mobility before it becomes a reality. It is important that stakeholders such as drone operators and researchers, urban planners, aviation authorities, and local residents have tools that allow them to experience future very low level airspace in their regions at an early stage. By utilizing an immersive virtual U-space, stakeholders have the opportunity to collaborate and take each others feedback to influence the design of new concepts, processes, and services. Extended Reality (XR) technologies offer an innovative, highly intuitive solution to bridge this gap.