Background
Laboratorium 4.0 (LABO 4.0) is a first-of-its-kind educational and career-exploration center in the Żoliborz district of Warsaw, Poland. It opened on 3 June 2026, is operated by Agencja Rozwoju Mazowsza (the Mazovia Development Agency), and was created by the Mazovian Voivodeship with support from Poland's National Recovery Plan (Krajowy Plan Odbudowy). Admission is free, and the center is built to help students, teachers, career advisers and industry partners understand the professions of the future through hands-on immersive learning.
Making future careers tangible
Many high-demand fields — advanced manufacturing, robotics, automation, logistics, engineering, healthcare and heavy-equipment operation — rely on systems that are expensive, difficult or unsafe for students to access first-hand. LABO 4.0 addresses this with four immersive learning environments:
- Factory 4.0 — intelligent manufacturing systems, from digital product design and automated production to packaging and logistics
- AI, Drones & Robotics — humanoid robots, drones and artificial intelligence, and how automation is reshaping the workforce
- Visual Simulation Lab — placing students inside professional settings to perform specialized tasks such as aircraft towing and tower-crane operation
- STEAM Lab — science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics for creativity, collaboration and problem-solving
Two immersive technologies: glasses-free 3D and full VR
Laboratorium 4.0 pairs two complementary immersive technologies. Much of the center runs on the zSpace Inspire 2, a glasses-free 3D laptop built for STEM education, career exploration and technical training. Using a stylus, students manipulate interactive 3D models of digital machinery, engineering components, anatomical models and industrial equipment, while integrated head and stylus tracking creates realistic depth with no headset required. Because the experience is glasses-free, teachers stay at the center of instruction and students gather naturally around shared models to build spatial understanding.
The Visual Simulation Lab goes a step further, putting students in full virtual reality on physical operator rigs. Wearing HTC Vive Focus 3 headsets, trainees sit at motion-simulator stations — a seat, steering wheel and control levers supplied by the Polish simulator maker Flint Systems — and practise operating heavy equipment such as tower cranes, reach stackers and aircraft tow tractors. Configurable weather, time of day and wind let learners rehearse demanding, hazardous tasks safely before ever touching a real machine.
An immersive-learning partnership
zSpace was deployed across the center in partnership with Edukacja3D, the official zSpace partner in Poland, which has helped schools, universities and vocational-education centers integrate immersive learning for years.
Reaching thousands of students across Mazovia
LABO 4.0 has welcomed its first students and is expected to serve several thousand high-school learners across the Mazovian Voivodeship, with enrollment opening in July 2026. Officials describe it as part of a wider Mazovian program to develop vocational education and lifelong learning, connecting classroom instruction with real-world careers. The deployment also reflects zSpace's expanding international footprint in large-scale public education.
