# Immersive Training Guide

> A plain reference on immersive (VR and simulation) training for the military, government, healthcare and business. It covers 12 training categories. In each, the main providers are compared with the same fields, listed alphabetically, with sources.

Published by Resolution Imagery LLC. Content checked October 21, 2026. Providers are listed alphabetically; the order is not a ranking.

## Training categories: Military and government

- [Suicide prevention and SAPR](https://immersivetrainingguide.com/training/suicide-prevention-and-sapr/): VR and simulated-conversation practice for suicide intervention and postvention, bystander intervention, and supporting victims of sexual assault. Providers compared: Alteristic (Green Dot), Catharsis Productions, LivingWorks, Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP), Moth+Flame, SIMmersion and USC Institute for Creative Technologies.
- [Leadership, safe AI use and cybersecurity](https://immersivetrainingguide.com/training/leadership-and-safe-ai-use/): VR and simulated-conversation practice for leaders, plus simulation-based training on safe AI use, operational security and cyber threats. Providers compared: Bodyswaps, Cornerstone (Talespin), Hack The Box, Lockheed Martin, Moth+Flame, Mursion, SimSpace, Skillsoft, Strivr, USC Institute for Creative Technologies and VirtualSpeech.
- [Aviation maintenance](https://immersivetrainingguide.com/training/aviation-maintenance/): VR, AR and 3D simulation for aircraft maintainers: procedures, inspections and troubleshooting on virtual aircraft. Providers compared: AVATAR Partners, Boeing, CAE, DiSTI, FlightSafety International, HTX Labs, Lockheed Martin, Mass Virtual, Moth+Flame, Pinnacle Solutions, Rolls-Royce and VRAI.
- [Shipbuilding and shipyard trades](https://immersivetrainingguide.com/training/shipbuilding-and-shipyard-trades/): Welding simulators and VR trades training for naval shipyards and the shipbuilding workforce. Providers compared: Industrial Training International (ITI), Lincoln Electric, Miller Electric, Moth+Flame, Seabery and VRSim.
- [Drones, counter-drone, EW and space](https://immersivetrainingguide.com/training/drones-counter-drone-ew-and-space/): Simulation and VR training for drone operators, counter-drone teams, electronic warfare operators and space operations crews. Providers compared: CAE, FAAC, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI), InVeris, Lockheed Martin, Moth+Flame, Northrop Grumman, OneArc (formerly BISim), Operator XR, Red 6 and Slingshot Aerospace.
- [AI-powered training](https://immersivetrainingguide.com/training/ai-powered-training/): Simulations with AI role players, adversaries and tutors, and generative-AI conversation practice. Providers compared: Alelo, CAE, Charles River Analytics, Cubic, Discovery Machine, Lockheed Martin, Moth+Flame, Mursion, SoarTech, Synthesia and Virti.
- [Readiness assessment and analytics](https://immersivetrainingguide.com/training/readiness-assessment-and-analytics/): Performance measurement and analytics for VR and simulation training: proficiency, behavior and readiness. Providers compared: 2 Circle, 4C Strategies, Aptima, CAE, Cognitive3D, Cubic, Design Interactive, Eduworks, HTX Labs, Lockheed Martin, Moth+Flame and SoarTech.
- [Pilot training and flight simulation](https://immersivetrainingguide.com/training/pilot-training-and-flight-simulation/): Full simulators, portable VR flight trainers and augmented-reality training for military pilots and aircrew. Providers compared: ASTi, Boeing, CAE, FlightSafety International, King Crow Studios, Lockheed Martin, Loft Dynamics, Moth+Flame, Red 6 and Vertex Solutions.

## Training categories: Healthcare

- [Healthcare communication](https://immersivetrainingguide.com/training/healthcare-communication/): VR and virtual-patient practice for nurses, physicians and hospital staff: difficult conversations, de-escalation and patient communication. Providers compared: Bodyswaps, Embodied Labs, Engineering & Computer Simulations (ECS), Moth+Flame, Mursion, Oxford Medical Simulation (OMS), PCS, SimConverse, SimX, UbiSim and Virti.

## Training categories: Business and workforce

- [Corporate leadership and soft skills](https://immersivetrainingguide.com/training/corporate-leadership-and-soft-skills/): VR and AI role-play for managers and teams: feedback, conflict, coaching, difficult conversations and leading change. Providers compared: Bodyswaps, Cornerstone (Talespin), Moth+Flame, Mursion, Skillsoft, Strivr, Virti, VirtualSpeech and Yoodli.
- [Hiring and realistic job previews](https://immersivetrainingguide.com/training/hiring-and-realistic-job-previews/): VR job previews and simulation-based assessments that show candidates the real job and help employers judge fit. Providers compared: Adaptive Immersion, Harver, HireVue, Moth+Flame, SHL, Strivr and Transfr.
- [Skilled trades and workforce training](https://immersivetrainingguide.com/training/skilled-trades-and-workforce-training/): Welding simulators and VR trades training for employers, community colleges and workforce programs. Providers compared: Heartwood, Interplay Learning, Lincoln Electric, Miller Electric, Moth+Flame, Realityworks, Seabery, Transfr and VRSim.


## Providers

- [2 Circle](https://immersivetrainingguide.com/providers/2-circle/): 2 Circle is a veteran-owned small business that provides consultants and software for DoD acquisition and operations, including RAPID, an aircrew performance assessment and debrief tool first developed under the Navy's SBIR program by former TOPGUN instructors. In this guide: Readiness assessment and analytics.
- [4C Strategies](https://immersivetrainingguide.com/providers/4c-strategies/): 4C Strategies provides Exonaut, commercial software for planning, delivering and evaluating military training and exercises; its U.S. company, 4C North America Inc., is a small business in Orlando that supports Department of War training and readiness. In this guide: Readiness assessment and analytics.
- [Adaptive Immersion](https://immersivetrainingguide.com/providers/adaptive-immersion/): Adaptive Immersion is a Tampa-based company that builds immersive training and assessment, including TalentSim, a simulation-based pre-hire assessment platform; it says it has used technology-enabled assessments since 2011, starting with military training. In this guide: Hiring and realistic job previews.
- [Alelo](https://immersivetrainingguide.com/providers/alelo/): Alelo is a Los Angeles-based company, co-founded in 2005 as a University of Southern California spinout, that builds training in which learners practice conversations with AI-driven avatars, for government agencies, employers and schools. In this guide: AI-powered training.
- [Alteristic (Green Dot)](https://immersivetrainingguide.com/providers/alteristic/): Alteristic is the organization behind Green Dot, a bystander-framework violence prevention program, and offers related prevention programs and curriculum work. In this guide: Suicide prevention and SAPR.
- [Aptima](https://immersivetrainingguide.com/providers/aptima/): Aptima is a U.S. company that develops technology for national security customers by combining AI, data analytics and human-performance science; its readiness work covers performance measurement, adaptive training and after-action review for the military services. In this guide: Readiness assessment and analytics.
- [ASTi](https://immersivetrainingguide.com/providers/asti/): ASTi (Advanced Simulation Technology inc.) is a small business in Herndon, Virginia, that makes sound and communications products for training simulators, including the SERA simulated air traffic control environment, and says it has delivered products since 1989. In this guide: Pilot training and flight simulation.
- [AVATAR Partners](https://immersivetrainingguide.com/providers/avatar-partners/): AVATAR Partners is a woman-owned small business, founded in 2003, that makes extended reality (AR, VR and mixed reality), digital twin and AI software for training and maintenance, including the no-code XRcreate authoring platform, for defense and industry. In this guide: Aviation maintenance.
- [Bodyswaps](https://immersivetrainingguide.com/providers/bodyswaps/): Bodyswaps, co-founded in 2020 by Christophe Mallet, Tom Szirtes and Julien Denoel, offers an AI-powered immersive soft skills training platform, with offices in London and Raleigh, North Carolina. In this guide: Leadership, safe AI use and cybersecurity, Healthcare communication and Corporate leadership and soft skills.
- [Boeing](https://immersivetrainingguide.com/providers/boeing/): Boeing is an aerospace company whose Government Services business supports military aircraft such as the P-8, KC-46 and V-22 with maintenance, upgrades and training. In this guide: Aviation maintenance and Pilot training and flight simulation.
- [CAE](https://immersivetrainingguide.com/providers/cae/): CAE is a technology company, founded in 1947 as Canadian Aviation Electronics, whose Defense & Security business provides training and operational support to defense customers; its U.S. arm, CAE USA, is headquartered in Tampa, Florida. In this guide: Aviation maintenance, Drones, counter-drone, EW and space, AI-powered training, Readiness assessment and analytics and Pilot training and flight simulation.
- [Catharsis Productions](https://immersivetrainingguide.com/providers/catharsis-productions/): Catharsis Productions, founded in 2000 by Gail Stern and Christian Murphy, produces sexual assault and harassment prevention programs for colleges, the military, government and workplaces, including Sex Signals. In this guide: Suicide prevention and SAPR.
- [Charles River Analytics](https://immersivetrainingguide.com/providers/charles-river-analytics/): Charles River Analytics is a research and development company in Cambridge, Massachusetts, founded in 1983, that builds AI and intelligent systems, including adaptive training, for government and private-sector customers; it says it is now a GRVTY company. In this guide: AI-powered training.
- [Cognitive3D](https://immersivetrainingguide.com/providers/cognitive3d/): Cognitive3D is a Canadian company that makes spatial analytics software for XR (VR, AR and mixed reality) applications, recording and replaying sessions and analyzing user behaviour across sessions. In this guide: Readiness assessment and analytics.
- [Cornerstone (Talespin)](https://immersivetrainingguide.com/providers/talespin/): Cornerstone (Cornerstone OnDemand) makes workforce learning and talent software. In 2024 it acquired Talespin's extended-reality capabilities and team, and it now sells Talespin's immersive soft-skills technology as Cornerstone Immerse; Talespin's website redirects to that product. In this guide: Leadership, safe AI use and cybersecurity and Corporate leadership and soft skills.
- [Cubic](https://immersivetrainingguide.com/providers/cubic/): Cubic is a privately held U.S. defense and public transportation technology company founded in 1949; its Cubic Defense business provides C5ISR products and live, virtual, constructive and game-based training for U.S. and allied forces. In this guide: AI-powered training and Readiness assessment and analytics.
- [Design Interactive](https://immersivetrainingguide.com/providers/design-interactive/): Design Interactive is an Orlando, Florida company, founded in 1998, that applies human factors research and software engineering to immersive training, performance support and automated performance assessment for defense, enterprise and industrial teams. In this guide: Readiness assessment and analytics.
- [Discovery Machine](https://immersivetrainingguide.com/providers/discovery-machine/): Discovery Machine is an AI company in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, founded in 1999, that builds voice-enabled AI agents, which it calls AI Constructs, to act as role players, instructors, advisors and commanders in defense training and simulation. In this guide: AI-powered training.
- [DiSTI](https://immersivetrainingguide.com/providers/disti/): DiSTI is an Orlando, Florida, software company that makes GL Studio interface software and the VE Studio platform for building 3D virtual maintenance trainers, and develops trainers for military and commercial customers. In this guide: Aviation maintenance.
- [Eduworks](https://immersivetrainingguide.com/providers/eduworks/): Eduworks is a U.S. software company that builds competency-based training and talent-management technology for government and industry, including the CADRE readiness analytics platform and the open-source Competency and Skills System (CaSS) it developed for DoD. In this guide: Readiness assessment and analytics.
- [Embodied Labs](https://immersivetrainingguide.com/providers/embodied-labs/): Embodied Labs is a company that makes immersive VR and web-based training for people who care for older adults, placing learners in the first-person perspective of the person receiving care. It says it was founded in 2016. In this guide: Healthcare communication.
- [Engineering & Computer Simulations (ECS)](https://immersivetrainingguide.com/providers/engineering-and-computer-simulations/): Engineering & Computer Simulations (ECS) is an Orlando, Florida, small business that has delivered training and simulation technology to government and industry clients since 1997, serving medical, aviation and combat teams. In this guide: Healthcare communication.
- [FAAC](https://immersivetrainingguide.com/providers/faac/): FAAC Incorporated, founded in Michigan in 1971 and headquartered in Ann Arbor, makes training simulators and is part of Arotech Corporation's Training and Simulation Division, which includes MILO; in February 2025 it acquired Battlespace Simulations (BSI), maker of MACE and ARMOR. In this guide: Drones, counter-drone, EW and space.
- [FlightSafety International](https://immersivetrainingguide.com/providers/flightsafety-international/): FlightSafety International is an aviation training company and simulator manufacturer founded in 1951 and owned by Berkshire Hathaway; its subsidiary FSI Defense trains U.S. military aircrews. In this guide: Aviation maintenance and Pilot training and flight simulation.
- [General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI)](https://immersivetrainingguide.com/providers/general-atomics-aeronautical-systems/): General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI), headquartered in Poway, California, and an affiliate of General Atomics, builds remotely piloted aircraft, including the Predator series and MQ-9A Reaper, and offers pilot training and support services. In this guide: Drones, counter-drone, EW and space.
- [Hack The Box](https://immersivetrainingguide.com/providers/hack-the-box/): Hack The Box is a cybersecurity training company whose platform offers hands-on hacking and defense labs, capture-the-flag competitions, team cyber ranges and incident simulations for individuals, enterprises and government organizations. In this guide: Leadership, safe AI use and cybersecurity.
- [Harver](https://immersivetrainingguide.com/providers/harver/): Harver makes hiring assessment and talent decision software. Founded in 2015, it offers products including pymetrics game-based assessments, and says it has helped more than 1,300 customers. In this guide: Hiring and realistic job previews.
- [Heartwood](https://immersivetrainingguide.com/providers/heartwood/): Heartwood is a U.S. company that builds 3D interactive simulations and guides for operations, maintenance and field service teams, delivered on web, mobile, PC, VR and AR. In this guide: Skilled trades and workforce training.
- [HireVue](https://immersivetrainingguide.com/providers/hirevue/): HireVue, founded in 2004, makes hiring software including video interviews, AI interviewing and pre-hire assessments, and says it has surpassed 80 million interviews. In this guide: Hiring and realistic job previews.
- [HTX Labs](https://immersivetrainingguide.com/providers/htx-labs/): HTX Labs is a Houston-based software company that makes EMPACT, an immersive training and mission readiness platform for U.S. defense organizations; it says it has supported the U.S. military for nearly a decade. In this guide: Aviation maintenance and Readiness assessment and analytics.
- [Industrial Training International (ITI)](https://immersivetrainingguide.com/providers/industrial-training-international/): Industrial Training International (ITI) is a crane, rigging and load-handling training company offering instructor-led and online courses, field services and VR simulations; it describes itself as an Interplay Learning company. In this guide: Shipbuilding and shipyard trades.
- [Interplay Learning](https://immersivetrainingguide.com/providers/interplay-learning/): Interplay Learning is an Austin-based provider of online and virtual reality training for the skilled trades, building training since 2016. In this guide: Skilled trades and workforce training.
- [InVeris](https://immersivetrainingguide.com/providers/inveris/): InVeris, headquartered in the Atlanta, Georgia area, provides fats simulation and Caswell live-fire training for defense, public safety and commercial markets; it traces its history to Caswell International in 1926 and took the InVeris name in 2020. In this guide: Drones, counter-drone, EW and space.
- [King Crow Studios](https://immersivetrainingguide.com/providers/king-crow-studios/): King Crow Studios (Crow King Studios, LLC) is a virtual and augmented reality software developer in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, founded in 2015 as a video game developer, that builds custom VR training, including a B-52 cockpit procedures trainer. In this guide: Pilot training and flight simulation.
- [Lincoln Electric](https://immersivetrainingguide.com/providers/lincoln-electric/): Lincoln Electric is a maker of arc welding, cutting and automation equipment and welding consumables whose portfolio includes education solutions; its annual report says it was founded in 1895 and is headquartered in the Cleveland, Ohio, area. In this guide: Shipbuilding and shipyard trades and Skilled trades and workforce training.
- [LivingWorks](https://immersivetrainingguide.com/providers/livingworks/): LivingWorks describes itself as a suicide prevention and intervention training company and a social enterprise, started in Calgary in 1983 by four founders. In this guide: Suicide prevention and SAPR.
- [Lockheed Martin](https://immersivetrainingguide.com/providers/lockheed-martin/): Lockheed Martin is a global security and aerospace company, formed in 1995, whose business is mostly with the U.S. Department of Defense and federal agencies; it builds the C-130J and F-35 and trains their aircrew and maintainers. In this guide: Leadership, safe AI use and cybersecurity, Aviation maintenance, Drones, counter-drone, EW and space, AI-powered training, Readiness assessment and analytics and Pilot training and flight simulation.
- [Loft Dynamics](https://immersivetrainingguide.com/providers/loft-dynamics/): Loft Dynamics is a Swiss company, founded in 2016 as VRM Switzerland, that designs, manufactures and operates VR flight simulation training devices; it says it was the first with VR simulators qualified by both EASA and the FAA. In this guide: Pilot training and flight simulation.
- [Mass Virtual](https://immersivetrainingguide.com/providers/mass-virtual/): Mass Virtual is an Orlando company founded in 2009 that builds extended reality (XR) training content and the MassXR platform for defense and commercial customers. In this guide: Aviation maintenance.
- [Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP)](https://immersivetrainingguide.com/providers/sport-in-society/): Northeastern University's Center for the Study of Sport in Society, founded in 1984, uses sport to promote inclusion and prevent interpersonal violence, and runs the Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP) program. In this guide: Suicide prevention and SAPR.
- [Miller Electric](https://immersivetrainingguide.com/providers/miller-electric/): Miller Electric is a maker of arc welding equipment, welding safety gear, automation and welding training systems, and is part of Illinois Tool Works' family of welding businesses. In this guide: Shipbuilding and shipyard trades and Skilled trades and workforce training.
- [Moth+Flame](https://immersivetrainingguide.com/providers/moth-and-flame/): Moth+Flame is a New York company, founded in 2015, that builds virtual reality training and readiness analytics. It says it has trained more than 65,000 people, including more than 45,000 warfighters across the Air Force, Army, Navy and SOCOM. In this guide: Suicide prevention and SAPR, Leadership, safe AI use and cybersecurity, Aviation maintenance, Shipbuilding and shipyard trades, Drones, counter-drone, EW and space, AI-powered training, Readiness assessment and analytics, Pilot training and flight simulation, Healthcare communication, Corporate leadership and soft skills, Hiring and realistic job previews and Skilled trades and workforce training.
- [Mursion](https://immersivetrainingguide.com/providers/mursion/): Mursion is a San Francisco-based company whose platform lets employees practice interpersonal conversations with avatars, driven by AI or by trained human simulation specialists, and pairs that practice with feedback and coaching. In this guide: Leadership, safe AI use and cybersecurity, AI-powered training, Healthcare communication and Corporate leadership and soft skills.
- [Northrop Grumman](https://immersivetrainingguide.com/providers/northrop-grumman/): Northrop Grumman is a global aerospace, defense and security company whose business is mostly with the U.S. government, principally the Department of Defense and intelligence community; it makes electronic warfare range and test simulators. In this guide: Drones, counter-drone, EW and space.
- [OneArc (formerly BISim)](https://immersivetrainingguide.com/providers/bisim/): OneArc (BAE Systems OneArc), formed in 2025 from Bohemia Interactive Simulations (BISim) and Pitch Technologies, is a wholly owned subsidiary of BAE Systems, Inc. that makes simulation, interoperability and geospatial software, including VBS, Mantle, Pitch and Blue IG. In this guide: Drones, counter-drone, EW and space.
- [Operator XR](https://immersivetrainingguide.com/providers/operator-xr/): Operator XR builds deployable virtual reality training systems for military and law enforcement; founded by special forces veterans, it has offices in Sydney and Virginia and is a subsidiary of xReality Group (ASX: XRG). In this guide: Drones, counter-drone, EW and space.
- [Oxford Medical Simulation (OMS)](https://immersivetrainingguide.com/providers/oxford-medical-simulation/): Oxford Medical Simulation (OMS) is a company founded by clinicians that provides VR and screen-based clinical simulations combined with AI, analytics and implementation services for healthcare education programs and health systems. In this guide: Healthcare communication.
- [PCS](https://immersivetrainingguide.com/providers/pcs/): PCS (PCS.AI Inc.), whose name stands for Patient Communication Simulators, is a company founded in 2016 that makes AI-driven virtual patients, an AI voice system for simulation manikins and a high-fidelity patient simulator for healthcare education. In this guide: Healthcare communication.
- [Pinnacle Solutions](https://immersivetrainingguide.com/providers/pinnacle-solutions/): Pinnacle Solutions is a Huntsville, Alabama, company founded in 2008 and owned by Akima that provides simulation and training products, flight training services, aircraft maintenance and technical publications for defense customers. In this guide: Aviation maintenance.
- [Realityworks](https://immersivetrainingguide.com/providers/realityworks/): Realityworks is a maker of hands-on learning products for career and technical education, including guideWELD welding training systems, whose products are used in middle, secondary and post-secondary schools. In this guide: Skilled trades and workforce training.
- [Red 6](https://immersivetrainingguide.com/providers/red-6/): Red 6 (Red Six Aerospace, Inc.) is a U.S. company, founded in 2018, that makes ATARS, an airborne augmented reality system that shows pilots synthetic aircraft and threats during live flight. In this guide: Drones, counter-drone, EW and space and Pilot training and flight simulation.
- [Rolls-Royce](https://immersivetrainingguide.com/providers/rolls-royce/): Rolls-Royce is an engineering company that develops power and propulsion systems for air, sea and land; its U.S. arm, Rolls-Royce North America, says all U.S. military services operate its engines or propulsion systems. In this guide: Aviation maintenance.
- [Seabery](https://immersivetrainingguide.com/providers/seabery/): Seabery is a Spanish technology company that makes augmented reality training simulators for welding and spray painting; it says its Soldamatic welding simulator is used in more than 80 countries. In this guide: Shipbuilding and shipyard trades and Skilled trades and workforce training.
- [SHL](https://immersivetrainingguide.com/providers/shl/): SHL makes talent assessment and people-science products for hiring and development, available in more than 40 languages and supporting 150 countries. In this guide: Hiring and realistic job previews.
- [SimConverse](https://immersivetrainingguide.com/providers/simconverse/): SimConverse is a company whose AI platform lets health professions learners hold conversations with photorealistic AI avatars that can play any character, then receive feedback tied to rubric criteria. It lists offices in Sydney, Austin and London. In this guide: Healthcare communication.
- [SIMmersion](https://immersivetrainingguide.com/providers/simmersion/): SIMmersion is a Maryland company, founded in 2002 by Dale Olsen, that builds conversation training with virtual role-players using its PeopleSim technology, which Olsen first developed at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. In this guide: Suicide prevention and SAPR.
- [SimSpace](https://immersivetrainingguide.com/providers/simspace/): SimSpace is a cyber range company that models IT, OT and mission networks so organizations can run live-fire exercises, test security tools and validate AI agents; it moved its global headquarters to Orlando, Florida, in 2026. In this guide: Leadership, safe AI use and cybersecurity.
- [SimX](https://immersivetrainingguide.com/providers/simx/): SimX is a company, founded and led by clinicians, that makes a multiplayer virtual reality medical simulation platform and a marketplace of patient scenarios for hospitals, nursing schools, EMS programs and military organizations. In this guide: Healthcare communication.
- [Skillsoft](https://immersivetrainingguide.com/providers/skillsoft/): Skillsoft is a publicly traded corporate learning company that offers the Percipio learning platform and CAISY, an AI conversation simulator for practicing workplace conversations. In this guide: Leadership, safe AI use and cybersecurity and Corporate leadership and soft skills.
- [Slingshot Aerospace](https://immersivetrainingguide.com/providers/slingshot-aerospace/): Slingshot Aerospace, founded in 2017, provides AI-powered satellite tracking, space data, and space modeling and simulation software to government and commercial customers, and has offices in Colorado, Texas, Canada, Taiwan and the UK. In this guide: Drones, counter-drone, EW and space.
- [SoarTech](https://immersivetrainingguide.com/providers/soartech/): SoarTech, founded in 1998 as a spin-off of the University of Michigan's AI Laboratory, is an AI company that builds AI agents, speech tools and adaptive training for defense customers; it says it is now a Lyntris company. In this guide: AI-powered training and Readiness assessment and analytics.
- [Strivr](https://immersivetrainingguide.com/providers/strivr/): Strivr makes an enterprise XR training platform. It was founded in 2015 out of Stanford University's Virtual Human Interaction Lab; Derek Belch is its founder and CEO. In this guide: Leadership, safe AI use and cybersecurity, Corporate leadership and soft skills and Hiring and realistic job previews.
- [Synthesia](https://immersivetrainingguide.com/providers/synthesia/): Synthesia is an AI video company founded in 2017 by AI researchers and entrepreneurs; it makes an AI video platform and Roleplay Sessions to help organizations train, onboard and upskill employees. In this guide: AI-powered training.
- [Transfr](https://immersivetrainingguide.com/providers/transfr/): Transfr is a New York-based company, founded by Bharani Rajakumar, that makes virtual reality career exploration and skills training simulations for middle-skills jobs. In this guide: Hiring and realistic job previews and Skilled trades and workforce training.
- [UbiSim](https://immersivetrainingguide.com/providers/ubisim/): UbiSim is an immersive VR simulation platform for nursing, designed by nurses, in which learners care for virtual patients to build clinical judgment, confidence and communication skills. Its site says UbiSim is a Labster product. In this guide: Healthcare communication.
- [USC Institute for Creative Technologies](https://immersivetrainingguide.com/providers/usc-ict/): USC Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT) is a University of Southern California research institute, founded in 1999, that serves as a U.S. Army-sponsored University Affiliated Research Center and builds simulation, virtual human and AI-based training prototypes for the Department of Defense. In this guide: Suicide prevention and SAPR and Leadership, safe AI use and cybersecurity.
- [Vertex Solutions](https://immersivetrainingguide.com/providers/vertex-solutions/): Vertex Solutions is a U.S. training technology company in Orlando, Florida, with a nearly 30-year history, that designs and integrates virtual and mixed reality flight training devices and other immersive training systems. In this guide: Pilot training and flight simulation.
- [Virti](https://immersivetrainingguide.com/providers/virti/): Virti is a workforce training company whose platform lets learners practice spoken or typed conversations with AI Virtual Humans and get AI coaching feedback; it says it was founded in 2018 and began in clinical simulation. In this guide: AI-powered training, Healthcare communication and Corporate leadership and soft skills.
- [VirtualSpeech](https://immersivetrainingguide.com/providers/virtualspeech/): VirtualSpeech is an independent UK company, founded in 2016 by Sophie Thompson and Dom Barnard, that offers AI practice for workplace conversations and presentations. In this guide: Leadership, safe AI use and cybersecurity and Corporate leadership and soft skills.
- [VRAI](https://immersivetrainingguide.com/providers/vrai/): VRAI is a simulation company that develops data-driven VR training and HEAT, software that turns simulation data into performance insights, for defense, security and industry customers. In this guide: Aviation maintenance.
- [VRSim](https://immersivetrainingguide.com/providers/vrsim/): VRSim is a U.S. company that has built immersive training tools since 2002; its product pages list SimSpray for painting and coatings, VRTEX virtual reality welding trainers and VRNA for nursing and allied health. In this guide: Shipbuilding and shipyard trades and Skilled trades and workforce training.
- [Yoodli](https://immersivetrainingguide.com/providers/yoodli/): Yoodli is a Seattle-based company offering an AI roleplay platform for sales, onboarding, learning and leadership development that scores practice conversations against rubrics. In this guide: Corporate leadership and soft skills.

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