Virtualware, the Spain-based XR and 3D simulation software program firm, introduced it’s secured a €5 million ($5.8 million) deal to broadly roll out its VIROO platform in vocational coaching services supported by Spain’s Ministry of Schooling.
The six-year contract permits Virtualware to deliver its XR enterprise platform VIROO to 66 new ‘Centres of Excellence for Vocational Coaching’ (VET), the corporate says in a press assertion, that are run by Spain’s Ministry of Schooling, Vocational Coaching and Sport (MEFPD).
The rollout to Spain’s VET Centres will be part of the greater than 25 vocational coaching facilities throughout the nation already geared up with VIROO. In Spain, VET helps preliminary coaching of younger folks in addition to the persevering with up-skilling and re-skilling of adults throughout a wide range of industries.
“We’re opening a brand new chapter of development and pedagogical innovation, permitting hundreds of scholars to coach with state-of-the-art immersive simulators developed and deployed via VIROO platform, elevating their technical expertise from day one,” says Virtualware founder and CEO Unai Extremo. “Our aim is to deliver immersive know-how to each vocational coaching classroom in Spain, via a sustainable mannequin for content material creation and deployment”
Based in 2004 after which later acquired by Swedish firm Simumatik in 2024, the in Bilbao, Spain-based firm has lately centered on increasing its capabilities to assist plenty of key industries, together with vitality, automotive, transportation, protection, manufacturing, schooling, and healthcare.
Amongst Virtualware’s shoppers are GE Vernova, Petronas, Volvo, Gestamp, Alstom, ADIF, Bosch, Biogen, Kessler Basis, Make investments WindsorEssex, McMaster College, the College of El Salvador, Ohio College, the Spanish Ministry of Protection and the Basque Authorities.
Take a look at VIROO in motion under, which was created to showcase the corporate’s work with the Spanish nation rail service, ADIF (Administrador de Infraestructuras Ferroviarias).