The educational landscape represents perhaps one of the most valuable focus areas for today’s XR companies. For years, we’ve been searching for ways to empower, and support a new generation of digitally savvy learners. However, its fair to say the demand for innovative new technologies in education has grown significantly greater since the pandemic.
In the last couple of years, lack of access to in-person and traditional educational opportunities for students and employees in-training have prompted a new focus on XR for education.
With augmented reality, students can bring graphics, charts, and digital content into the real world, where they can interact with and explore each asset. With mixed reality, teachers can use holographic images and environments to enhance education, allowing medical students to interact with virtual organs in the real world. In virtual reality, students can even travel to different places and times, without leaving a room.
Of course, to create these experiences, we first need XR companies capable of delivering the unique environments educational teams are looking for.
Here are just some of the vendors currently making waves in this space. Some are finalists for this years Education & Training Award at this month’s XR Awards 2022.
Dynepic
A forward-thinking women and veteran-founded company built to change the way we create unique training and engagement experiences, Dynepic is taking the educational world by storm. At the core of the company’s innovative portfolio is the DX-Platform, an immersive app combined with a training, distribution, creation, and management platform.
Dynepic allows companies and educators from all environments to design their own extended reality experiences with multi-vendor training tools and platforms, all with white-label branding.
Currently, the firm is up for the Education & Training Award and Krissa Watry, Co-founder and CEO, Dynepic, has the chance to win XR Leader of the Year.
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ELearning Brothers
One of the top companies in the digitally-transforming educational space today, eLearning Brothers has helped countless brands like Google, Amazon, Siemens, and PayPal create new digital training opportunities for their users. The company specializes in a wide range of digital training experiences, and offers brands access to a customizable VR authoring tool.
The solution ensures companies can create immersive learning experiences which can be accessed either through a VR headset, a mobile or a desktop web browser. There are even templates to help you get started with common training scenarios.
Moth+Flame
One of the leading providers of immersive learning experiences for enterprise-scale companies, Moth+Flame is accomplishing some incredible things in the educational industry. The brand has helped its customers to achieve powerful results through VR training, including 4 times faster educational outcomes than traditional classroom methods.
The Moth+Flame brand helps companies to access an end-to-end training solution with its own learning management system, and various templates for soft skills and hard skills training. You’ll also have access to immersive collaboration as part of the package.
Motive
Motive.io provides businesses in today’s digital age with an extensive VR training platform, where they can create their own unique educational experiences for users. The platform supports all kinds of companies in building their own VR content, without the need for any prior coding knowledge, setting it apart from countless complex white glove solutions.
Motive works by ensuring companies can build phenomenal 3D versions of their training environment, then allowing them to populate that landscape with immersive and interactive scenarios. You can also deploy your creations across multiple devices with the click of a button.
Osso VR
One of a variety of VR training and education companies focusing on the healthcare landscape, Osso VR is a leading virtual reality surgical training platform and assessment ecosystem. The technology provides teams with access to virtual training experiences where they can learn how to complete complex procedures in a fully immersive environment.
The virtual training experiences drive adoption and empower team members to access more training opportunities in any environment, even without access to medical equipment and cadavers. What’s more, the environment also has a host of powerful analytics to help with tracking knowledge acquisition over time.
Osso VR is also a Education & Training finalist in the XR Awards 2022.
Taqtile
Built for the growing landscape of deskless and field workers, Taqtile provides companies with a way to provide their team members with instruction and guidance wherever they are. The “Manifest” platform from Taqtile can speed up training even in complex environments such as the construction or engineering speed.
Companies can get their specialists up to date in a matter of days, and provide continuous access to upgraded and updated training over time. Already a number of companies across the industrial, military, and other technical landscapes have begun to adopt Taqtile in their training strategies.
ViewAR
ViewAR is an all-in-one virtual reality environment where companies and training professionals can create, manage, and publish their own augmented reality applications. Built to ensure anyone can take advantage of the AR world, the state-of-the-art solution means developers and inexperienced creators alike can both use the same cutting-edge technologies.
With ViewAR, you can create immersive experiences built to work with a range of domains and environments, using templates to accelerate app creation.
VR Vision Inc
Specializing in enterprise-level VR training solutions, VR Vision Inc is working hard to help companies prepare their teams for the new age of metaverse experiences and metawork. The company offers a full range of augmented and virtual reality solutions intended to inspire employees and deliver new skills to specialists in training.
You can access fully-featured VR training environments, built to help teach your team members the skills they need to thrive in any environment, even if you’re working in a particularly complicated ecosystem. There are also services available to help with content production and deployment.
FundamentalVR
An IP company working in the midst of the machine learning and XR environment, FundamentalVR has created a powerful new platform called “Fundamental Surgery” to offer immersive education to people in the medical landscape. The state-of-the-art technology delivers multimodal education and simulation across all-in-one and tethered VR, MR, and mobile devices.
This solution is the only global platform available today to have achieved educational accreditation from a range of leading medical institutions, including the Royal College of Surgeons, and the AAOS.
FundamentalVR is the third finalist for the Education & Training award.
