About the Company
Founded in 2010, Singapore Headquartered Altairika offers virtual reality learning experiences for consumers (families and kids) and educational institutions.
It started with mobile planetariums and immersive experiences on space/astronomy in 2010. Since then, it has expanded into several other learning areas such as art and cinema, natural history, mathematics, and more. However, astronomy continues to be its primary focus today, and Altairika has built a sizable presence in Russia – operating its virtual planetarium in 15 regions on a franchise model.
In addition to its core educational offerings, Altairika provides its customers with ancillary support solutions to power the end-to-end business. For example, you can use Altairika’s AR app to distribute augmented reality handouts, where scanning a QR code will reveal a mini-immersive experience. There’s an Altair CRM, a digital auditorium, an Altair Academy or knowledge base, the FULI system for backend management, an analytics service, and a VR encyclopaedia or tutorial.
Let us review these features in more detail.
Inside Altairika VR Training
Essentially, Altairika offers 360-degree solutions for VR learning videos, providing not only the learning content but also enabling device distribution, participation management, learning event management, logistics, and analytics. This is achieved through the following core features:
- Device compatibility – Altairika works on nearly every major VR headset variant, including the Oculus Series. The company partners with the world’s leading headset manufacturers for white-labelled offerings that give users a branded VR experience.
- Content catalogue – Altairika has a massive catalogue of ready-to-use content, comprising 67 films on different science disciplines from leading studios. Learning sessions are highly interactive, with up to 30 students participating in each viewing experience concurrently. In other words, Altairika complements hands-on classroom learning (or replaces it in a remote learning scenario), bringing the same level of engagement.
- Business-specific tools – Altairika has a number of pre-built AR/VR and backend tools to help organisations make the most of their products. You can leverage AR handouts to promote learning sessions, you can distribute learning experiences via mobile where there is no access to headsets, and you can plan sessions using the CRM, the analytics service, and the virtual auditorium.
- Franchisee model – One of Altairika’s primary drivers for success is its efficient franchisee-based business model, supported by a robust knowledge base for partner training. This knowledge base, called the Altair Academy, includes a wealth of learning materials for franchisee partners, such as tests, questionnaires, and common FAQ answers. For example, Altairika has 33 partners in Russia, leveraging this technology to deliver immersive learning experiences to schools and other organisations.
- VR encyclopaedia – Altairika is working on an ambitious project that seeks to document and present all relevant knowledge and learning materials in a VR format. You can think of it exactly like a traditional encyclopaedia, which documents all knowledge known to humankind, but consumable through a VR headset. The project is still in development.
- Solutions for families – apart from the VR catalogue and business toolkit for schools and educational institutions, Altairika also caters to consumer-grade deployments for at-home learning. Importantly, users don’t have to pre-purchase a headset – Altairika will provide certified equipment as part of the bundled solution.
Why Altairika VR Training Makes a Difference
Altairika is a holistic managed services provider for non-enterprise VR learning – a market with tremendous potential. You can gain from an end-to-end packaged solution without the need to buy your own VR gear, set up a CRM for session management, create marketing materials from scratch, monitor participation analytics, etc. The Altairika solution is ready to use from the get-go, fine-tuned for specific use cases.
One of the key differentiators of Altairika’s the FULI system, which acts as the backend to a Netflix-like VR video purchasing/renting library. You can set up FULI for optimising your mobile content distribution system, and view purchase statistics, adoption rates, and more. Similarly, the company’s analytics service lets you monitor the number of sessions, profitability, set utilisation, and capacity to effectively monetise VR experiences.
What We Think
If you’re looking for a comprehensive solution for VR/immersive infotainment, your search ends with Altairika. The company not only has an impressive library of pre-designed content (67+ films and growing), but it also takes care of all the administrative and logistical requirements along with it. For educational institutions, the ability to deliver immersive experiences without investing in expensive gear – which alone can cost several thousands of Pounds – can be a massive differentiator.
Altairika is currently used in 18 countries across several hundred deployments, promising a battle-tested VR learning solution.
