Making VR medical training as easy as PowerPoint
HTC VIVE's Medical team partnered with Virti to bring no-code VR simulation to hospitals and universities across Asia-Pacific — helping educators build immersive clinical training in under 30 minutes.
Workshops delivered across the Asia-Pacific region
Medical training simulations created and deployed
Medical professionals and students trained
Virti provides a very user-friendly interface — not only allowing those without engineering backgrounds to develop lesson plans effortlessly, but also to objectively evaluate learners.— Head of Medical VR, HTC VIVE
VR held huge promise — but creating content was too hard
HTC VIVE's Medical team works with hospitals and universities across Asia-Pacific to bring immersive learning into clinical education. They knew VR could transform how medical professionals trained — but the traditional barriers to content creation were blocking adoption.
Most early VR tools required an engineer and a designer to build each simulation. That made it prohibitively expensive and slow — putting immersive medical training out of reach for most institutions.
Traditional content creation was too expensive
Building VR training content typically required specialist engineers and designers — costing tens of thousands per simulation and taking weeks to produce. Most medical institutions couldn't justify the investment.
Actors and mannequins had real limitations
Traditional medical simulation using actors was time-consuming and created scheduling problems. Mannequins couldn't communicate. Neither could scale to serve the diversity of clinical scenarios modern educators needed.
Reaching institutions across a vast geography
The APAC region spans dozens of countries, healthcare systems, and languages. Delivering consistent, high-quality VR training support across that geography — with a lean team — required a platform that educators could operate independently.
Multilingual patient simulations didn't exist
Medical training in APAC requires content that works across languages and cultures. AI-powered patient avatars that could speak, respond naturally, and represent diverse backgrounds simply weren't available at scale.
No-code VR — like "PowerPoint for medical simulation"
Virti solved VIVE's core problem: making VR simulation creation accessible to educators without technical backgrounds. The platform's no-code authoring tools meant a clinical educator with basic computer skills could build a full immersive training scenario — without an engineer in sight.
Virti works like "PowerPoint for VR" — allowing clinical educators with basic computer skills to build interactive simulations without any technical expertise or external developers.
Virtual Human patients speak 20+ languages, can represent any ethnicity or background, and respond naturally to student questions — enabling realistic, diverse patient encounters at scale.
Virti content runs seamlessly on HTC VIVE headsets — combining the best immersive hardware with the most accessible medical simulation platform, giving institutions a complete end-to-end solution.
Educators who attended VIVE's workshops reported creating interactive teaching plans within 30 minutes — and building lessons between 10 and 100 times faster than with previous tools.
85 workshops. 2,500 professionals. 183 simulations — and counting.
HTC VIVE's Medical team built a three-day workshop model that taught clinical educators everything they needed to create and deliver VR simulations using Virti. Each workshop left institutions with the skills and confidence to build their own content independently — without ongoing technical support.
Three-day educator workshops across APAC
VIVE's Medical team ran intensive workshops teaching clinical educators to build, configure, and deploy VR simulations using Virti — no technical background required. Attendees left the workshop ready to create content independently.
183 clinical simulations built by educators
Workshop participants went on to create 183 distinct medical training simulations — ranging from diagnostic exercises and patient interactions to surgical procedures and emergency room scenarios — all authored without developer support.
AI patient avatars in 20+ languages
Institutions deployed AI-powered Virtual Human patient avatars capable of conducting full clinical interactions in 20+ languages — representing diverse ethnicities, genders and presentations to support inclusive medical education across the region.
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85 workshops. NPS of 85%. A self-sustaining ecosystem.
The VIVE-Virti partnership has created something rare: a medical training ecosystem that grows itself. Each workshop produces educators who independently build new simulations — so the library of 183 scenarios keeps expanding without additional investment from VIVE or Virti.
Workshops delivered to medical institutions across Asia-Pacific
Medical training simulations created and deployed by educators
Net Promoter Score — an exceptionally high NPS for clinical training workshops
What changed for educators
- Build VR simulations without engineers or designers
- Create interactive teaching plans in under 30 minutes
- 10–100× faster lesson creation than before
- Independent content creation after a single workshop
What changed for students & professionals
- Access to 183 clinical simulations across diverse scenarios
- Realistic AI patient interactions in their own language
- Practice in surgical, diagnostic and emergency scenarios
- Immersive learning without the cost of actors or mannequins
A self-sustaining ecosystem — growing with every workshop
The VIVE-Virti model is designed to be self-perpetuating: each workshop creates a new cohort of independent VR content creators. As the simulation library grows, so does the case for adoption — making it easier for new institutions to join and immediately benefit from existing content.
What's next
HTC VIVE continues to expand its workshop programme across new APAC markets — with each new cohort adding to the growing library of educator-authored simulations.
This is user-friendly, this is creator-friendly, and this is how quickly you can get it done. Virti has a realism that's second-best only to the actual situation.