Defense XR · Immersive training · Digital twins

Founder-led in Southern California

Mission-focused spatial systems

Mission-ready XR for the people who keep critical systems moving.

PropelAR designs augmented reality, immersive training, simulation, and digital-twin systems that help defense and aerospace teams inspect, maintain, learn, and decide with greater clarity.

20 years
Software · 3D · immersive technology
Field-aware
Connected and offline workflows
Full lifecycle
Discovery · architecture · deployment
Original capability concept

Our mission

Convert hard-won technical knowledge into clear, repeatable experiences that strengthen readiness and keep people close to the work.

What we build

Capabilities shaped around the mission.

We start with the operator, the equipment, and the decision—not the headset. Technology is selected only after the job is understood.

XR-guided work

Place inspection criteria, procedures, and system context at the point of performance.

  • Spatial work instructions
  • Object registration
  • Hands-free guidance

Immersive training

Build repeatable practice environments for complex, hazardous, or resource-intensive tasks.

  • Multiplayer VR
  • Instructor tools
  • Performance capture

Digital twins

Turn scans, CAD, and technical data into performant interactive assets and shared environments.

  • Real-time 3D
  • Asset optimization
  • Simulation
  • IoT
  • Bidirectional communication
  • Holographic overlays

Spatial registration

Align people, equipment, sensors, and digital content to a common physical frame of reference.

  • Computer vision
  • Tracking
  • Shared coordinates

Connected systems

Integrate XR clients with secure services, program data, remote experts, and operational workflows.

  • Azure
  • Offline-first
  • APIs & analytics

Applied AI

Make approved technical knowledge easier to retrieve, understand, and act on in the flow of work.

  • RAG workflows
  • Speech interfaces
  • Local or hosted models

Operational use cases

Technology with a real-world job to do.

From an aircraft hangar to a vehicle maintenance bay, the value of XR is measured in the quality of the task—not the novelty of the display.

Concept image of an aircraft maintainer using mixed reality during a turbine inspectionCapability concept
01 / Inspection & sustainment

Put the right guidance on the right component.

Spatial work instructions can connect maintainers with approved procedures, inspection criteria, sensor context, and remote expertise while keeping attention on the equipment.

  • Aircraft inspection
  • Nondestructive evaluation
  • Maintenance guidance
  • Progress capture
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Concept image of service members using mixed reality and a rugged tablet to inspect a tactical vehicleCapability concept
02 / Vehicle readiness

Make expert knowledge repeatable at the point of need.

Connected XR and tablet workflows can turn inspection plans into consistent steps, surface component context, document completion, and support maintainers across experience levels.

  • Vehicle systems
  • Digital work packages
  • Equipment recognition
  • Offline operations
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Experience foundation

Built on work that had to perform.

PropelAR is founder-led by Joe Sidorowicz, whose technical experience spans production XR, simulation, digital twins, defense R&D, automotive training, and multidisciplinary delivery.

Meet PropelAR
2–8Immersive trainees

Plus scalable instructor, role-player, and observer support in prior multiplayer XR architectures.

70 FPSPerformance target achieved

Across a prior standalone-headset multiplayer training system with synchronized avatars and physics.

59M → 150KDigital-twin optimization

Triangles reduced from a full-scale scan to a performant real-time asset in prior work.

Led 10-person teamsCross-functional leadership

Led engineering, technical art, QA, and UI/UX teams around shared program outcomes in prior work.

Delivery model

Move from uncertainty to useful evidence.

Each engagement is structured to expose risk early, make the core interaction tangible, and create a clear path from prototype to production.

View our approach
  1. 01

    Frame the mission

    Map the people, equipment, environment, constraints, and decisions that define success.

  2. 02

    Prove the interaction

    Build the smallest credible experience that tests the highest-risk assumption.

  3. 03

    Engineer the system

    Integrate content, software, data, networking, devices, and delivery requirements.

  4. 04

    Validate in context

    Measure performance and usability where the work actually happens, then iterate toward field readiness.

Internal R&D

Building the platform behind the capability.

PropelAR Suite is PropelAR’s internal research-and-development platform for exploring reusable spatial workflows, equipment interaction, shared experiences, and AI-assisted technical guidance. The technology record will be published as it matures.

Follow the R&D path

Have a readiness challenge?

Bring us the complicated part.

Tell us about the users, equipment, environment, and decision you need to improve. We’ll help identify the smallest useful place to begin.

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