Instant Global Server Deployment for Collaborative XR Medical Education
Written in collaboration with
AlensiaXR
Key Highlights
Edgegap’s on-demand, regionless orchestration instantly deploys servers at the ideal location for users anywhere in the world, directly reducing latency for AlensiaXR’s university customers.
AlensiaXR retained full control over their custom multisession logic while leveraging Edgegap’s instant server deployment, making server allocation significantly more efficient than their previous architecture.
Edgegap integrated cleanly with AlensiaXR’s existing backend, removing friction from their infrastructure workflow without requiring significant engineering investment.
Edgegap’s native monitoring and metrics tools gave the team the visibility needed to debug and fine-tune deployments effectively.
The Company
AlensiaXR is an EdTech company pioneering immersive technology to transform anatomy, neuroanatomy, and health sciences learning. Its solutions help learners grasp complex concepts faster, improve retention, and reduce costs. As the exclusive provider of HoloAnatomy®, now powered by the .NEXT™ platform, this new spatial platform is advancing the future of education and training beyond health sciences to limitless learning in nearly any subject.
In 2025, AlensiaXR launched HoloAnatomy® and the .NEXT™ platform on the Meta Quest 3 and other XR headsets. This unique platform is a flexible, collaborative learning environment where instructors build rich 3D content and students explore complex or otherwise inaccessible anatomical structures together in real time, whether sharing the same physical space or joining remotely.
The Challenge
Delivering a seamless shared XR experience to university classrooms worldwide is unforgiving from an infrastructure standpoint.
XR applications are acutely sensitive to latency, and unlike traditional devices like PC, are not wired by design which further increases the networking issues and further increases latency, which translates to degradation in real-time synchronization of the shared XR session and is immediately felt by every participant in the session. Not ideal for all participants.
AlensiaXR faced three specific problems:
First, sessions needed to spin up instantly with servers placed as close to participants as possible, regardless of where in the world a university was located.
Second, the team runs significant custom logic for managing multiplayer sessions and needed a platform flexible enough to work with their existing backend without constraining how servers were allocated.
Third, without adequate visibility into deployments, debugging and optimizing performance was slow and imprecise. The team needed reliable, built-in tooling to understand what was happening in each environment.
The Solution – Edge Server Orchestration
Edgegap’s regionless orchestration platform, built on the world’s first and largest edge network across 615+ locations, addressed each of these challenges directly.
Instant global deployment: Edgegap deploys servers in seconds at the optimal location for each session, automatically and on demand, without manual region selection or idle pre-warmed fleets. For AlensiaXR’s university customers distributed worldwide, this translated directly into a better, lower-latency shared XR experience.
“Edgegap makes it really easy to deploy servers near users that will be joining a server pretty much anywhere in the world. This helped us reduce latency for our customers.” - Brandon Hedges, Senior Development Manager / Senior Software Engineer at AlensiaXR
Increased Server Allocation Efficiency: Edgegap integrated cleanly with AlensiaXR’s existing backend. The team retained full ownership of their custom multiplayer session logic while gaining instant, on-demand server deployment. The result was a meaningfully more efficient allocation process than what they had before.
“It was also very easy to integrate with our backend and actually allowed us to make server allocation much more efficient than before.” said Mr. Hedges
Built-in monitoring and metrics: Edgegap’s native monitoring and logging tools gave AlensiaXR the visibility needed to debug issues and fine-tune deployments without building a separate observability layer.
"Edgegap has great built-in monitoring and metrics that help with debugging and tweaking deployments — that was really helpful to us."
Conclusion
The Edgegap platform’s automated scaling capabilities eliminated the time-consuming process of manual infrastructure management and ensured resources matched demand.
Increased regional access enhanced participants’ online experience by dynamically placing servers at the optimal location for each session. Additionally, the simplification of infrastructure management allowed the team to redirect their focus towards the core XR experience’s development.
“Edgegap makes it really easy”
