Students are set to attend a new US charter school using the Irish firm’s inventive VR platform
ENGAGE XR announced on Friday it had struck a massive deal with classical curriculum development firm Optima Domi to provide solutions for a world-first virtual reality (VR) charter school in Florida.
The facility will open classes in Autumn 2022 and plans to host up to 1,500 teachers and scholars for grades 3 to 8, with learners attending their daily classes and subjects on ENGAGE’s virtual platform.
Optima Domi also plans to extend VR classes to eleventh grade learners in the 2023-2024 academic year, with K-12 students joining the programme the following year.
Global science and technology firm 3M has also used the ENGAGE platform to develop its company Metaverse platform, MetaWorld ‘3M Home’, a VR project aimed at exploring customer experience goals.
The Waterford, Ireland-based firm’s contract with 3M, announced in late July, will allow customers to interact and access the latter’s products globally via a head-mounted display (HMD).
In an investment presentation, David Whelan, Chief Executive Officer for ENGAGE XR, said it was “exciting” his company’s platform was chosen for the world’s first VR Charter school.
He added,
“ENGAGE is being utilised more and more in education and enterprise settings. Companies and organisations are also beginning to look at the role the MetaVerse can play in engagement. The development of 3M Home using ENGAGE is a great example”
Whelan explained how US tech firm Meta’s announcement in late October had “helped shine a light” on his enterprise’s developments over the last five years.
He added ENGAGE XR had also received ISO27001 Certification, indicating its pledge to building top-rated security for its platform.
The CEO said the next 12 months would see additional market recognition of the Metaverse, allowing customers of his company services to create their own MetaWorlds, concluding: “The Metaverse will be a collection of interconnected virtual worlds and ENGAGE XR can play a key role in enabling it.”
The statement comes amid fierce competition from top global tech firms such as Meta, NVIDIA, HTC VIVE, Nextech AR, UpWorlds, Boson Protocol, and numerous others building the next generation of communications widely expected to succeed the Internet.
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