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Transfr Secures $12M Series A Financing to Scale Immersive VR Job Training Platform

Road to VR

Currently, Transfr is already working with Alabama’s AIDT, a workforce agency, and the Alabama Community College System to use its curriculum and Oculus Quest to provide skills training for careers that don’t require four-year degrees, such as automotive manufacturing, construction and other skilled trades. “By

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Transfr raises $12M Series A to bring virtual reality to manufacturing-plant floors

TechCrunch VR

Transfr leverages virtual reality to create simulations of manufacturing-plant shop floors or warehouses for training purposes. Hardware-wise, the business uses Facebook’s Oculus Quest headset with Oculus for Business, not the generic customer hardware available in stores. Transfr’s core technology is its software.

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2018 Highlights: Award-winning VR gloves, global customers, and a growing team

HaptX

We were the first VR company to introduce a prototype at Sundance since Oculus unveiled an early version of their Rift in 2012. Later in the year, Destin invited us to show off our new HaptX Gloves Development Kit with other YouTube stars in Huntsville, Alabama at the first-ever ThinkerCon. We also demoed to astronauts at NASA.

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