Janset Shawash
XR Expert and Project Lead, Metropolia UAS/HXRC
Janset Shawash
XR Expert and Project Lead, Metropolia UAS/HXRC
Janset is an XR expert at Helsinki XR Center (Metropolia UAS) and researcher focused on place-based XR and emergent technologies for cities, built heritage, and creative industries. She designs and evaluates metaverse and virtual experience initiatives, supports RDI pilots and partnerships, and maps ecosystem gaps to help teams move to sustainable adoption.
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Janset Shawash
Autonomous mobility in transition: ecosystem, governance and public value
In many forms, autonomous vehicles are already here. The more important question is no longer whether they are coming, but whether they will arrive in a form that is safe, useful, trusted, affordable, and aligned with public value.
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Janset Shawash, Leevi Rantala, Alicia Sudlerd
Walking Through the Future: Espoonlahti’s Health Centre in the Metaverse
Virtual worlds are not simply for play or a means of escapism. Increasingly this technology is becoming an instrument of real-world design, enabling greater democratic participation in the creation or modification of physical structures and environments. In this article, we trace the emergence of cityverse thinking from global experiments to Finnish initiatives and share our experience building a proof of concept.
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Janset Shawash
Beyond the buzzword – XR already works for businesses like yours
You have probably heard the terms augmented reality, virtual reality, or extended reality. Maybe you have placed virtual furniture in your living room or tried a social media filter. But when it comes to your own business, it is easy to dismiss XR as something for big brands with big budgets. That assumption is outdated.