Two technology businesses based in Manchester have claimed they are ‘leading the race’ to innovate the global education metaverse with their own science and tech campus.

The campus, called Credersi World, uses a mixed reality platform that includes virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR.)

Last week, Facebook announced plans to create 10,000 new jobs across the European Union to help develop the metaverse.

The companies, tech and science educators Credersi and 3D tech business PixelMax, said that while the social media giant has outlined its vision of what a global metaverse might look like, they are “already shaping what the education metaverse will actually be.”

For the past 12 months, the companies have been developing and creating their own virtual campus.

Credersi World is an immersive platform in which students – and employers who want their workforces reskilled for careers of the future – shape their learning in a virtual campus world, complete with shops, cinemas, art galleries, wellbeing rooms, and food and coffee shops by using immersive mixed reality technologies.

The concept for Credersi World was to create a virtual science and tech campus that could train and reskill workforces of the future in an immersive and engaging way.

“The reality is that technology is now driving businesses forward at such a rapid pace that there is simply not enough skilled workforce available to fulfil those roles, which is why we have such a massive skills shortage and demand is outstripping supply,” said Andy Lord, chief executive, Credersi. “As companies try to keep up with the rapid pace of technology as it evolves, they have realised that a large percentage of their workforce are simply not fit for purpose.

“That now means companies have to identify the talent from within their workforces and organisations and create the opportunity to educate and train them – and reskill them for a career of the future.”

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