ARuVR®, a multi-award winning end-to-end Extended Reality (XR) learning platform for enterprises, today announced that the City, University of London and ARuVR® will launch the UK's first Continuing Professional Development (CPD) course to fill the UK skills void in Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), and Mixed Reality (MR). The course will be open to anyone who wants to upskill their learning to to take advantage of the opportunities presented by XR within the enterprise setting.

With the express aim of plugging the immediate skills gap that UK businesses face in order for them to adopt, manage, and deploy XR training solutions within the workplace, the CPD course "Introduction to Extended Reality Design and Production" has been specifically developed to provide the essential skills required to deploy training solutions that leverage "Blended Learning 3.0" - a combination of face-to-face, digital, and XR content.

Professor Rajkumar Roy, Executive Dean, School of Science & Technology (SST), City, University of London, said, "We're excited to launch, in partnership with ARuVR, the UK's first CPD course to empower L&D professionals in the field of XR. The skills gap to enable organisations to take advantage of the undoubted combined benefits of AR, VR, and MR is quite simply stunting business growth. We aim to solve this problem."

Registration is now open for the certified CPD course, which begins in summer 2024 at City, University of London.