EON Reality Enters Into Partnership With MerSETA To Bring The Knowledge Metaverse To 50,000 Students And 7,500 Interns In South Africa
EON Reality Enters Into Partnership With MerSETA To Bring The Knowledge Metaverse To 50,000 Students And 7,500 Interns In South Africa. United States based Augmented and Virtual Reality company EON Reality, Inc. has announced its partnership with the Manufacturing, Engineering and Related Services Sector Education and Training Authority (merSETA) in South Africa.
“Like EON Reality, the merSETA believes an environment that promotes open knowledge sharing is critical to the success of an organization and the world. We’re elated to help the companies associated with the merSETA achieve the organization’s aim of reducing inequalities and unemployment in South Africa via access to high-quality and relevant skills development and training opportunities,” Dan Lejerskar, Founder, Chairman and CEO of EON Reality told Yahoo. “Our products, such as the EON Metaverse Builder, contain many existing materials that will allow the merSETA institutions to train employees safely, effectively and affordably in hazardous and costly fields like auto-manufacturing — all with the possibility of adding infinitely more opportunities. Their use of our technology will impact multiple industries, thereby growing the knowledge metaverse and potentially improving the South African workforce for years to come.”
The Manufacturing, Engineering and Related Services SETA was one of 23 SETAs that were established in terms of the Skills Development Act passed by the South African Parliament in 1998. It began functioning in 2000 and continues to do so. Like all other SETAs that were established at this time, the MerSETA, as it became known, was to play a central role in terms of ensuring that the National Skills Development Strategy (NSDS) of South Africa was fulfilled. The sub-sector traditionally covered by the Manufacturing, Engineering and Related Services SETA The MerSETA was set up initially to facilitate skills development, education and training.
EON Reality is a leading company in Augmented and Virtual Reality-based experience creation for education and industry as well as the reputed creators of the Knowledge Metaverse. EON Reality’s over 20 years of existence and success are tied to its belief that knowledge is a human right and should be available, accessible, and affordable for every person on the planet. To carry this out, EON Reality developed and launched EON-XR, a SaaS-based platform dedicated to the democratization of XR content creation that brings code-free XR development and publishing to smartphones, tablets, laptops, and any other XR-focused devices.
