The French government has awarded a grant of up to €3.7 million to Avatar Medical and Kyber under the France 2030 program to develop Avatar MediVerse, a project intended to make immersive, personalized 3D medical imaging available wherever clinicians and patients need it. The announcement matters because it signals a shift in how hospitals may access advanced visualization: instead of requiring a dedicated immersive room, interactive 3D anatomy could become available across the surgical journey, from the initial consultation through surgical planning and into the operating room.
Avatar Medical, a pioneer in visual intelligence for surgery founded in 2020, brings expertise in 3D medical visualization. Its flagship solution, Avatar Medical Vision, transforms CT scans and MRIs into interactive, realistic 3D visualizations instantly and without segmentation, giving clinicians a more intuitive way to understand each patient's specific anatomy. Kyber, a French deeptech company and commercial spin-off of KLabs, which hosts the VideoLAN project behind VLC, contributes know-how in ultra-low latency extended reality streaming and remote rendering. Kyber develops real-time infrastructures for healthcare, robotics, cloud rendering, and AI-driven video applications, and interested readers can learn more at https://kyber.tech.
The combined expertise addresses a persistent limitation in hospital imaging workflows. Immersive 3D visualization has typically depended on specialized equipment confined to a single location, restricting when and where clinicians and patients can use it. Avatar MediVerse aims to remove that constraint by streaming and remotely rendering interactive 3D anatomy wherever it can be useful. The ambition is that the same personalized 3D representation of a patient's anatomy follows the entire care pathway, so that the visual information used in a consultation is the same information used for surgical planning and in the operating room.
That consistency has implications beyond convenience. When clinicians and patients rely on the same 3D model at every stage, communication becomes more concrete and decisions may be better informed. Surgical planning can be conducted with a shared reference point, and patient conversations can move away from abstract descriptions toward a realistic view of the individual's anatomy. Avatar Medical already collaborates with more than 20 hospitals in the United States and Europe and holds FDA-cleared and CE-marked technology products, originating from research conducted at Institut Curie and Institut Pasteur. Additional details about the company are available at avatarmedical.ai.
The France 2030 grant places the project within a broader national effort to support deeptech innovation, and it pairs two French companies whose technologies are complementary rather than overlapping. Avatar Medical supplies the medical visualization layer, while Kyber supplies the real-time streaming and remote rendering infrastructure needed to deliver that visualization at scale. If successful, the project could broaden access to immersive 3D imaging in hospitals and reduce the geographic and logistical barriers that currently separate advanced imaging from routine clinical use. The full announcement, including downloadable images and bios, can be viewed through the click here link, and additional news from the source is available at Avatar Medical.
