This week, immersive XR experience solution provider Mass Virtual started a collaboration with RAVE Computer to optimise the delivery of immersive training solutions.
The firms are using the upcoming Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference (I/ITSEC) in Orlando, Florida, this December 2-5 to highlight the working relationship. Mass Virtual and RAVE Computer will demo the results of their collaboration at booth #849 on the I/ITSEC expo floor.
RAVE Computer, a woman-owned small business, specializes in enhancing emerging hardware to promote optimal training effectiveness and operational readiness. Now, with the Mass Virtual partnership, RAVE Computer can extend its efforts to the XR world.
John Brooks, the Founder and CEO of Mass Virtual, added:
RAVE’s unwavering commitment to delivering top-tier hardware ensures a seamless performance of platforms like our Virtual Hangar and Virtual Garage, allowing us to provide unmatched training solutions to our users. By combining our strengths, we’re advancing human performance and redefining excellence in immersive training.
High-Level Immersive Training
Mass Virtual is bringing its vast experience deploying XR solutions to the RAVE Computer team. In the past, Mass Virtual designed the award-winning Virtual Hangar solution, which offers virtual environments to aircraft trainees with minimal latency and glitches.
By working with RAVE Computer, Mass Virtual can work to employ the former’s hardware optimization talents allowing for the seamless operation of its virtual learning environments-especially demanding heavy rendering tasks.
RAVE Computer has also worked with enterprise clients, namely the 2024 initiative Air National Guard that delivered the Virtual Hangar solution to thousands of systems and workers across 130 locations.
Stacey Ferguson, the President at RAVE Computer, also added:
We’re thrilled to partner with Mass Virtual to support our warfighters and defenders. This collaboration highlights how our expertise in hardware optimization and supply chain management complements their revolutionary training software. Together, we’re setting a new benchmark for innovation and reliability in the training and simulation industry.
By working together, the pair are able to scale the availability of immersive training environments that replicate real-world challenges, preparing workers to use the required skills on the field. The firms note that its immersive learning solutions enhance professionals’ skills while also delivering a measurable ROI in relation to the time and capital required to ensure high-quality training.
More on I/ITSEC
Jennifer Rogers, Executive Officer of the Learning Technology Standards Committee at the IEEE, spoke on the importance of tech events like I/ITSEC 2024 during the latest edition of the Big XR News Show.
Rogers noted that at other industry-specific events, such as the upcoming I/ITSEC event in December, people start talking about XR, simulation, AI, and how it all “comes together.”
Rogers continued:
That’s really interesting, because I/ITSEC is a great event that’s gone on for quite some time and is really a great collaboration between the defence community and heavy industrial. That’s usually very well attended once again, primarily from people who are working in the heavy industrial or defence spaces who want to collaborate around how we use technology in service of humanity and align to specific business cases. All those things that we keep talking about.
A great event, Rogers noted, and “maybe not those bigger shows, but certainly, events where they’re amazingly talented people coming together trying to solve real challenges from the perspective of heavy industry.”
As 2025 approaches, the mainstream XR space is quickly evolving from being primarily focused on fully immersive VR solutions for businesses and gamers. With the rise of AR and AI, the XR market is growing beyond the offerings seen earlier in the decade. Rogers noted, “There have been a lot of events going on, whether they’re industry-specific or more general,” that have showcased the possibilities of AR/VR/MR solutions in recent years, months, and even weeks; she explained:
Thinking about some of the events that maybe not all of our colleagues end up attending, but have had amazing pieces of information emerge that I can reflect upon. We’ve certainly had a few events here in Houston focused on the energy space, a few events around digital technology, and the use of not only XR but also AI and digital twins in the energy space. Those have been very well attended and quite a few great conversations coming out of those.
Rogers continued by noting that experts are exploring existing XR opportunities and the challenges within ecosystems in terms of different technologies working together to solve deployment hurdles such as data sharing or bandwidth issues.
Industry-focused events provide core insight into how businesses use XR tools to solve niche use cases while also understanding the hurdles facing widespread adoption.
