The new VR Innovation Academy is focused on bringing XR to new levels.
EON Reality, the global leader in Augmented and Virtual Reality-based knowledge and skills transfer for industry and education, announces the inauguration of a new VR Innovation Academy in Kyoto alongside its partner, SUS Co., Ltd. The VR Innovation Academy will continue to be operated by Cross Reality Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of SUS Co., Ltd., and will serve as the city’s new home for educating and training the next generation of XR developers.
For those who are unfamiliar with EON Reality’s VR Innovation Academy program, the academic institutions are embedded within colleges, universities, and other centers of learning around the world — each one focused on teaching students who are interested in learning how to create AR and VR applications. It provides both the knowledge and experience necessary for someone looking to get a career in any field related to XR technology, as well as a thorough top-to-bottom understanding of EON-XR.
For the Kyoto VR Innovation Academy’s inauguration, EON Reality Chairman and Founder Dan Lejerskar gave a speech from his home in California since COVID restrictions would not allow him to travel across the Pacific as he usually would for such an event.
“This is a very important partnership for EON Reality in the most dynamic region in Japan. We would like to achieve four key things together. We would like to transfer the latest knowledge from Silicon Valley to our partners in Japan. We would like to democratize the use of XR for all of the people in Japan. We would like to also create Japanese content with our partners. Finally, we would like to enable Japanese content to be monetized through export around the world. We know that this can help students and workers learn faster, retain information longer, and make better decisions, and we want to make that affordable and accessible for everyone in Japan.”
Dan LejerskarFounder of EON Reality
As part of the event, EON Reality President Mats Johansson took part in a virtual ribbon cutting ceremony, while important government officials, media, and other valuable participants attended the grand opening.
“XR technology has been improved daily and will be made an even bigger success by the adoption of 5G, however there are still not many XR engineers in Japan. This is why we develop them in VRIA Kyoto, and we aim for a developmental regime of 100 engineers in our early phase. We are also expecting that our XR solutions will support chronic workers shortages and issues caused by COVID-19 in Japan.”
Kimio SaitoChairman and Founder of SUS Co., Ltd. and Cross Reality Co., Ltd.
Kyoto is a leading manufacturing city where the pride of craftsmanship is a major factor in its long history. As such, advanced technology like that available in the VR Innovation Academy is derived and developed from this pride of craftsmanship. Kyoto not only serves as the home for growing industries such as manufacturing, healthcare, animation and more, but is also an important education and R&D hub in Japan. The VR Innovation Academy in Kyoto has long been targeted as a prospective partnership of the triple helix collaboration of industry, government, and academia with full cooperation from Kyoto Prefecture government.
Enrollment for the VR Innovation Academy in Kyoto is currently open for the upcoming April session.
About SUS Co., Ltd.
SUS Co., Ltd. is a Kyoto-based leading company has focused on development of engineers, dispatch business and commissioned development since the foundation 1999. The company currently has offices in 8 locations such as Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya throughout Japan. Based on our corporate motto, “Explore the highest level of education to enable each engineer to achieve self-realization,” “Generate new values by taking on challenges all the time,” “Support ‘personal’ growth and contribute to society,” and our concept for human resource development called «Recurrent School for Working Adult®», we have produced professional engineers and entrepreneur.
About Cross Reality Co., Ltd.
Cross Reality Co., Ltd. is a subsidiary company of SUS Co., Ltd., which operates VRIA Kyoto and provides XR business solutions for the industry and education markets in Japan, based on the partnership with EON Reality.
About EON Reality
EON Reality is the world leader in Augmented and Virtual Reality-based knowledge and skills transfer for industry and education. EON Reality’s success is tied to its belief that knowledge is a human right and should be available, accessible, and affordable for every human on the planet. To carry this out, EON Reality, since 1999, has developed the de-facto standard for Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality-based knowledge transfer software that supports devices from mobile phones to large immersive domes. EON Reality’s global app development network, with 22 locations worldwide, has created the world’s leading AR/VR library for knowledge transfer with over 8,000 applications. Over 40 million people worldwide have downloaded these applications.
