AI-powered immersive environments for 360° and XR
Aerial Icon builds tools that help teams generate, adapt and deploy realistic virtual environments faster, cheaper and at greater scale than traditional immersive production.
Backed by Innovate UK. Developed through real-world R&D with academic, clinical and immersive technology partners.
We make immersive environment creation faster, more flexible and more scalable.
Traditional immersive production can be expensive, slow, and difficult to adapt. Ubidio is being built to help immersive teams create and modify realistic 360°/XR environments without starting from scratch every time.
Generate environments
Create realistic immersive spaces for therapy, training, education, tourism, and experiential use cases.
Adapt existing content
Change environments, layouts, moods, seasons, or scenarios without rebuilding everything manually.
Deploy into XR workflows
Support practical use across VR headsets, 360° media, web-based previews, and immersive project pipelines.
Meet Ubidio
Ubidio is Aerial Icon's AI-powered immersive content platform. It is designed for teams who need realistic 360°/XR environments at speed, without the full cost and friction of repeated filming or 3D modelling.
Our goal is to help teams reduce immersive content production costs by up to 60%, depending on workflow and project scope.
Faster concept-to-demo cycles
Lower production overhead
More environment variation
Easier content refresh
Therapy & training use cases
Tourism & immersive experiences
Built for real-world immersive use cases
Wellbeing & digital therapeutics
Nature-based immersive environments for mental health, relaxation, seasonal affective disorder, and therapeutic research.
Education & Immersive Learning
Realistic environments for learning, preparation, confidence-building, and scenario-based experiences.
Training & simulation
Immersive environments for high-risk, hard-to-access, or expensive-to-recreate settings.
Tourism & culture
Virtual destination previews, cultural environments, museums, aquariums, heritage sites, and visitor attractions.
Location-based experiences
Flexible immersive environments for venues, exhibitions, brand experiences, and XR installations.
Have a different use case?
We're exploring paid pilots across applied XR. Tell us what you're building.
Discuss a pilotFrom immersive production to funded deep-tech R&D
Innovate UK
Backed immersive R&D through the A3S-XRDT programme.
Anglia Ruskin University
Collaborative VR wellbeing research.
NHS-linked partners
Clinical innovation conversations and project pathways.
360° / VR / XR experience
Hands-on production across formats and headsets.
Barclays Black Founder Accelerator
Recognised UK innovation programme alumnus.
UK deep-tech ecosystem
Active across founder, research and innovation networks.
Recognised across UK innovation & immersive tech
Aerial Icon's work has been recognised across UK innovation, immersive technology, healthtech and founder ecosystems.
Publications & Case Studies
Case Study
Medilink Midlands Case Study: Aerial Icon
Innovation work across immersive technology, health and applied XR.
Case Study
ARISE ABOVE Case Study: Aerial Icon
Aerial Icon's development journey through the ARISE innovation ecosystem.
Innovation Funding / R&D
Innovate UK 2024
Innovate UK-backed work in immersive technology and AI-enabled XR.
Innovation Funding / R&D
Innovate UK 2025
Continued Innovate UK-backed progress in immersive tech and digital therapeutics.
Programme / Ecosystem
Medilink Midlands ARISE
Involvement with Medilink Midlands and ARISE-supported innovation activity.
Awards & Recognition
Medilink Midlands Business Awards
Partnership Between Academia and Business
Recognition for collaborative innovation with academic and research partners.
Black Tech Achievement Awards
AI Champion of the Year
Recognition of AI innovation and founder-led contribution to the UK tech ecosystem.
University of Hertfordshire Best Business
Recognition of entrepreneurial and innovation-led business development.
VR wellbeing with Anglia Ruskin University
Aerial Icon has worked with academic and health innovation partners on immersive wellbeing research, including VR nature-based experiences designed to explore the potential of immersive environments for mental health and seasonal affective disorder.
This project supports Aerial Icon's wider mission: using immersive environments to create practical, evidence-informed applications in wellbeing, therapy, and applied learning.
View projectsFounded by immersive technologist Ekene Ukemenam
Aerial Icon is led by Ekene Ukemenam, a Chartered Engineer with experience across aerospace, drones, immersive 360° capture, VR, and applied deep-tech product development. The company combines engineering discipline, immersive production experience, and AI product development to build practical tools for the next generation of XR content creation.
CEng
Chartered Engineer
Aerospace
Engineering background
XR
Immersive product focus
Need realistic immersive environments without the usual production drag?
Whether you're building a VR therapy product, an education experience, a training simulation, or a location-based XR installation, Ubidio is being built to help you move faster.
