Activates billions of dollars of existing reality-capture into a process-safety, performance and data asset across hazardous industries — oil and gas, chemicals, mining, power, pharmaceuticals and defence.

IRVINE, CALIFORNIA — May 20, 2026 — EON AI Ventures today launched Illuminated Intelligence, a turnkey spatial AI platform designed to convert industrial 3D scans into an integrated pipeline of workforce training, live field guidance, and structured operational data. Developed from the team behind EON’s 25-year immersive industrial training platform, Illuminated Intelligence enables operators across oil and gas, chemicals, mining, pharmaceuticals, power, and defense to transform existing reality-capture investments into compounding operational intelligence assets. By decomposing industrial scans into addressable digital twins and integrating them with simulation-driven training and hands-free field guidance systems, the platform bridges workforce capability gaps while generating the structured data foundation required for the next generation of industrial autonomy. The system architecture, deployment model, and industrial autonomy framework are detailed in the accompanying white paper, Illuminated Intelligence.

Across oil and gas, chemicals, mining, power and pharmaceuticals, operators have spent the last decade investing in reality capture — laser scans, photogrammetry and 3D point clouds of their producing assets. Most of that data sits today as inert geometry. The Illuminated Intelligence platform decomposes those scans into addressable digital twins, makes them behave through EON’s Genesis 3 simulation engine, and surfaces them in the field via the company’s FieldIQ layer on certified hands-free smart glasses — turning a stranded capital expense into a compounding operational asset.

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“For 25 years, we built the world’s leading immersive training platform — for the virtual world. Today we are leaving the virtual world and entering the physical one. We are illuminating it. The Great Crew Change is taking decades of operator expertise out the door. Unplanned downtime in oil and gas alone runs at $38 million per offshore platform per year. And every major incident the industry has lived through — from Deepwater Horizon’s $65 billion bill onward — has a procedural and knowledge root cause we can now solve. Illuminated Intelligence is how we solve it.”— Dan Lejerskar, Founder and Chairman, EON AI Ventures Inc.

One twin, two surfaces, one continuous data stream.  The Illuminated Intelligence pipeline runs in five stages: SCAN (existing capture) → DECOMPOSE (the partner unlock that separates fused meshes into addressable components) → SIMULATE (Genesis 3 training on the decomposed twin) → ILLUMINATE (FieldIQ field guidance on certified glasses) → SCALE (continuous, outcome-tagged data that compounds with every shift worked). The same decomposed digital twin is used twice — to train workers safely in the simulator, and to guide and verify the same workers on the live asset in the field. Every guided task produces structured data — the corpus that trains the next decade of industrial autonomy.

Built on certified, in-production hardware.  The platform deploys on consumer-class spatial-computing glasses in safe and training zones, and on certified hazardous-area wearables — including the RealWear Navigator Z1, certified to ATEX Zone 1, IECEx, CSA Class I-Division 1 and UKCA — for live process environments. The three-zone architecture is co-authored with each operator’s HSE function and matches the device to the area classification; no consumer hardware ever enters a hazardous zone.

The autonomous frontier.  EON AI Ventures positions Illuminated Intelligence as the foundation layer for industrial autonomy. The same playbook that gave Amazon, Tesla and Waymo their autonomy advantage — deploy humans-with-sensors at scale, capture the long tail of real-world edge cases, train autonomy on the resulting corpus — applies, uniquely, to hazardous industrial work. Robotic precedent for that work is no longer theoretical: BP, Aker BP and Woodside are already deploying quadruped inspection robots on producing oil and gas facilities. The Illuminated Intelligence data corpus, anchored on decomposed digital twins, becomes the labelled, outcome-tagged training data the next generation of certified hazardous-area autonomy will need.

“Every operator we are speaking with has the same problem. The knowledge is walking out the door. The scans are stranded. The downtime is real. And the AI everyone is excited about is being built for screens, not for the actual world. We are the company building the actual world. Operators who join us today are not buying a training programme — they are building a defensible institutional-knowledge asset that compounds, and banking the data that the next decade of hazardous-area autonomy will need.”— Dan Lejerskar, Founder and Chairman, EON AI Ventures Inc.

Early deployments and commercial models.  Initial Illuminated Intelligence engagements are underway with a global supermajor oil and gas operator, and in advanced discussions with multiple Tier-1 operators across oil and gas, chemicals and mining. The platform is available under flat-licence, tiered-licence and outcome-based commercial structures — including value-share pricing tied to measured avoided cost — designed to align EON AI Ventures’ compensation with each operator’s measured operational outcomes.

Read more in the Illuminated Intelligence white paper.

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About EON AI Ventures

EON AI Ventures is a dedicated AI platform company focused on scalable enterprise transformation and workforce capability. Founded by the leadership behind EON Reality—with 25 years of experience in immersive learning and XR solutions—EON AI Ventures was established to accelerate delivery of AI-powered workforce solutions across industries and institutions.

EON AI Ventures operates two platform businesses: the Enterprise AI Platform supporting operational intelligence and workforce performance, and Virtual Campus/Virtual Compass enabling scalable training, certification, and knowledge transfer for enterprises, governments, and institutions.

Unlike generic learning platforms or consumer AI tools, EON AI Ventures is built specifically for environments where precision matters—addressing the challenge that generic AI delivers 80% quality, but high-stakes operations require 100%.

For more information, visit www.eonaiventures.com