FORUM8 — Experience the Moon. Design the Future.

■Date: April Tue. 21st - Sun. 26th, 2026 ■Venue: Tortona, Milan Free of charge for participation (Advance registration required)

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Presenting the Future of Engineering Middleware that Supports Disaster Management, the Environment, GNSS, and Communications

Under the theme “FORUM8 - Experience the Moon. Design the Future.”, we will showcase Japan made engineering software that contributes to disaster prevention, the environment, and social infrastructure, along with the middleware-based system platform that forms its core.

Global engineering software company FORUM8. Japan-made software:

As a Japan‑based engineering software company, FORUM8 has been bringing advanced design, analysis, and visualization technologies into practical use across various fields including civil engineering, architecture, transportation, and disaster‑prevention. In this exhibition, FORUM8 positions its flagship software, VR Design Studio UC‑win/Road, as a middleware platform for VR and digital‑twin applications, presenting a suite of systems that seamlessly connect XR, Metaverse, GNSS, communications, structural analysis, and even space‑related solutions

UC-win/Road -
Evolving as a Middleware

VR Design Studio UC-win/Road is not just a VR tool; it continues to advance as an engineering middleware that integrates a wide range of data, technologies, and systems.

  • Digital Twin for Urban/Transportation/Infrastructure Planning
  • Disaster Prevention/Environmental Simulation
  • Integration with High precision Positioning based on GNSS
  • Information Transmission and Visualization optimized for Communication Networks
  • Sharing/Collaboration within XR/Metaverse Space

FORUM8 integrates these functions and solutions to provide a platform that enables both intuitive and logical understanding of “where events are occurring” and “how their impacts propagate.”

Considering Disaster
Prevention, the Environment,
GNSS, and Communication as
One Inter-Connected System

In an era where natural disasters are becoming more severe and complex, advancing disaster prevention/mitigation, environmental planning, and building resilient social infrastructures requires precise GNSS based positioning, and reliable communication networks.

By reproducing the behavior of people, vehicles, and infrastructure during disasters through integration with GNSS data, and evaluating scenarios that include communication outages and delay, FORUM8 enables realistic disaster prevention and environmental planning. By integrating these solutions on the UC win/Road middleware platform, FORUM8 proposes a new approach that enables the design of disaster management, environmental analysis, and communication systems that are seamlessly connected.

Integration with
XR/Metaverse/CG/Analysis

At FORUM8's booth, we will introduce the following Japan-made software and integrated systems.

  • UC-win/Road
    VR / Digital Twin Middleware Platform
  • Middleware-based System Solutions built on UC-win/Road
  • Shade3D
    Shade3D × FEMLEEG Integration
  • XR Solutions
    - Metaverse "Metavania (F8VPS)"
    - Majimon (F8NFTS)
  • Space & Lunar Solutions showcased at Expo 2025

By treating architectural design, structural safety, environmental considerations, and visualization as a continuous, connected workflow, we support every stage from design and consensus building through to operational implementation

From the Expo to Space,
and ultimately to Social
Infrastructure

FORUM8 exhibited its solutions under the theme of space and moon at the Osaka/Kansai Expo 2025. The moon — an extreme environment — encapsulates many of the challenges faced on Earth, including issues surrounding disaster prevention, the environment, and communications, and energy.
FORUM8 will bring insights gained from the Expo back to terrestrial society, advancing engineering technologies that contribute to disaster mitigation, environmental sustainability, and the evolution of social infrastructure.

About FORUM8

FORUM8 is a Japan‑based engineering software company contributing to the fields of disaster-prevention, environmental management, and social infrastructure. Our mission is to integrate a wide range of technologies—including structural design, FEM analysis, VR/digital twins, GNSS and communication systems, XR, the Metaverse, AI, and NFTs—and implement them in society for practical use.
FORUM8 — Experience the Moon. Design the Future.
This design philosophy is aimed at a safer and more sustainable future.

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