The Virti team is packed with innovators, creatives, engineers and designers, and they’re all overflowing with ideas on how to make the world a better place! We wanted to create an opportunity for some of these ambitions to bear fruit, so in 2020 we launched Virti Jams. These week-long,

Meet the Virti Team: Søs Hejselbæk, Product DesignerIn her role as Product Designer, Søs applies her creative talents and rich design experience to help enhance Virti’s features and user experience.Can you tell us a little about your professional background and career journey before joining Virti? I’m originally

Despite being one of the newest members of the Virti team, Ben has confidently settled into his role as Learning Experience Designer (LXD). On a summer London morning, we caught up for a chat about his first impressions of company life, his career journey so far, and what it’s

XR technology has evolved far beyond its early association with gaming and niche industry application; now it’s the education sector which is reaping the benefits. Owing it’s immersive and interactive nature, XR tech has been proven to be an incredibly effective teaching and learning tool. Driven in part

Knowledge and skills are a source of incredible power, but their acquisition requires a significant time investment and depends upon access to the appropriate resources, skilled instruction and sufficient practice opportunities. This simple fact is at the root of the global knowledge divide - a divide which is not just

As Virti’s new COO and CFO, Mark is using his extensive experience in the technology sector to help drive our international scale-up agenda.Tell us a little bit about your background and your career journey.Born and raised in Yorkshire, I studied Mathematics at Cambridge University and launched my

Immersive ‘reality’ technologies have grown in popularity over the past few years, and it’s likely that you’ll have come into contact with them in their various forms. Both augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) are types of experiential technology. This means they integrate virtual and real elements

Tell us a little bit about your background (education, previous jobs etc.)Before joining Virti, I worked for about seven years in both the video games and VR space in Bristol. A few highlights of my career history include working on Adventure Time: I See Ooo, a BAFTA nominated VR

In the world of Information Technology, ‘platform-agnostic’ software is that which demonstrates interoperability across operating platforms. It’s sometimes referred to as ‘tech-agnostic’, but ultimately, it’s about compatibility: the software should work on all mobile devices, laptops, desktops and virtual reality headsets. Generally, platform-agnostic software incorporates recognised and common

Lukas Roper is the Lead Unity Developer at Virti. We've asked him to write a short article detailing how to add Vive Focus support to your projects. With Oculus recently announcing their requirements for end-users to have Facebook accounts, we wanted to take a look at other headsets to support.

Across sectors and industries, COVID-19 has dealt a blow to our modus operandi. From medicine to education, our national lockdown and the threat of infection have required significant changes and enormous efforts to keep society and businesses going. Now four months in, things are starting to return to normal. However,

Over the last few months the very fabric of society has been reimagined, with the education sector subject to some of the biggest changes since lockdown hit. University students are facing months outside of the classroom due to COVID-19, with primary and secondary schools facing their own challenges to minimise

Owing to the demands of social distancing and the rapid advances in VR software and hardware, businesses are waking up to the incredible potential of this cutting edge innovation.

How Can Artificial Intelligence Transform Your Hiring Process?In Part 1 we explored how immersive reality technologies - those which allow the user to engage with and experience a virtual world - are emerging as major disruptors in the socially-distanced world of training and recruitment. In this post we’re

How Can Virtual Reality Transform Your Hiring Process?In the first of this two-part series, we’re exploring how virtual reality and artificial intelligence are transforming the hiring and training processes for businesses. At Virti we are extremely excited about what Virtual Reality (VR) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies stand