StretchSense and its partners are advancing XR training with a cohesive technology stack that blends precision hand-tracking, haptic feedback, developer-ready tools, and platform partnerships with vendors such as SkillsVR. After eight years of leadership in film and gaming motion capture, the company is now translating its input expertise into enterprise-grade learning that is faster, more intuitive, and more effective.
In modern extended reality (XR), realism, workflow integration, and ease of deployment matter as much as visual fidelity. Organisations need training systems that scale across teams, locations, and operational complexity. StretchSense is meeting that demand by creating the connective tissue between hardware, software, and deployment – an ecosystem purpose-built for enterprise scalability.
Deep Dive: Technical Capabilities That Redefine Input
The StretchSense XR Train Glove is engineered specifically for workplace training rather than consumer gaming. Its design philosophy is simple: task to hand, with no game controller in between. This enables intuitive learning, faster onboarding, and stronger retention of key skills.
Enterprise-Ready Design
Eight years of hand-data capture excellence underpin the glove’s design choices:
- High-fidelity finger and wrist tracking for natural, accurate motion.
- Advanced sensors that capture subtle joint movements for nuanced, context-sensitive interaction.
- Integrated haptics that let users feel buttons, grip handles, and receive tactile cues inside virtual environments.
- Four glove sizes for maximum comfort and accessibility.
- Lightweight, breathable, stretchable fabric suited for long training sessions.
- Fingertips free for tapping, typing, and equipment interaction.
- Machine-washable durability for multi-user workflows.
By removing traditional controllers, the glove eliminates a major barrier to immersion, especially for professional learners unfamiliar with gaming hardware. Users simply put on the gloves and start training.
Interoperability Across XR Environments
The XR Train Glove is fully compatible with OpenXR and SteamVR, enabling deployment across all major headsets. This interoperability ensures organisations can scale from single pilots to enterprise-wide rollouts without system rebuilds or costly integration friction.
For training teams, these technical capabilities translate into more intuitive interaction, richer behavioural analytics, and measurable performance insights.
Developer Tools and OS Integration: Built for Real Workflows
StretchSense has built more than hardware – it has created a developer ecosystem designed for seamless integration and rapid content creation.
The StretchSense SDK provides developers direct access to live hand-tracking data and gesture events. OpenXR compliance ensures frictionless interoperability with engines like Unity and Unreal, allowing teams to stream real-time motion data, map gestures to actions, and embed the gloves into existing platforms without rewriting input layers.
Accelerated Deployment Through SkillsVR
This flexibility is amplified through the partnership with SkillsVR. Within the SkillsVR platform, the XR Train Glove is available as a pre-configured module, ready to activate instantly.
As StretchSense CEO Chris Chapman explains:
“If you’re building out an environment and you think, hey, I need my users to use gloves, you can click. Our module already works as a node within their system. Then the gloves will be delivered, and you’re straight away able to use them on the platform.”
For organisations running multiple pilots or proofs of concept, this dramatically reduces integration time, cost, and technical overhead.
Partnerships and Pilot Projects: Turning Innovation Into Outcomes
StretchSense’s ecosystem – driven by motion intelligence, haptics, and analytics – is designed to close the “immersion gap” that arises when hardware limitations interrupt learning. Controllers can feel clunky and unnatural. Camera-based hand tracking struggles with occlusion. StretchSense solves these challenges with precise, controller-free interaction.
The first XR Train Gloves have already shipped, and a growing number of pilot deployments are now underway, spanning:
- Industrial and defence safety training
- Firefighting simulations
- Law enforcement scenarios
- Medical and clinical skills training
- Aviation and manufacturing operations, including refuelling and maintenance tasks
These projects replicate complex, high-pressure environments safely and at scale. Early feedback highlights:
- Faster trainee onboarding
- More intuitive, natural movements
- Higher skill transfer consistency
- Reduced setup and reconfiguration time
- Lower overall deployment costs
The results indicate a clear pattern: authentic interaction accelerates learning and strengthens real-world skill retention.
What This Means for Enterprise and Government Customers
For organisations adopting XR training, the StretchSense and SkillsVR partnership provides a powerful, scalable, and practical path forward.
Key Benefits
- Faster deployment: Plug-and-play integration reduces onboarding friction and accelerates pilots.
- Enhanced realism: Natural hand interaction with haptic feedback creates deep immersion.
- Scalability: OpenXR and SDK support enable seamless expansion across teams and environments.
- Data-driven insights: Motion tracking provides analytics that support continuous improvement.
- Improved outcomes: Removing hardware barriers increases user focus, performance, and retention.
For sectors such as defence, aviation, manufacturing, and medical training, these advantages translate into measurable operational value – from readiness and safety to performance optimisation.
The Road Ahead
The StretchSense–SkillsVR partnership demonstrates how collaboration can shift XR training from novelty to necessity. By combining high-fidelity input hardware with developer tools, haptic intelligence, and enterprise platforms, StretchSense is establishing a new benchmark for immersive learning.
As the company continues advancing its motion-intelligence and analytics ecosystem, XR training will move beyond interaction and immersion toward measurable human performance at scale.
StretchSense’s technology ecosystem isn’t just enhancing XR training, it’s redefining what immersive enterprise learning can achieve.
Learn more about how StretchSense and SkillsVR are reshaping training for enterprise and government organisations at stretchsense.com
