FundamentalVR vs LabTrainingVR: Biosafety Cabinet Edition

FundamentalVR creates immersive training experiences for medical knowledge and skills development, serving clinical, manufacturing, and growth teams in MedTech. Its offerings span VR, mixed reality, augmented reality, AI, haptics, and browser or native mobile and tablet experiences. The ophthalmology training uses haptic-enabled VR simulation for devices, therapies, and techniques, with competency scoring, error capture, and learning-curve modeling. Simulations can use ready-made or custom imaging and realistic anatomy, with collaboration for tutoring or role-based training. Fundamental XR Insights tracks learning objectives and performance and is included in every active contract. Teams can export reports to CSV or Excel, schedule them, connect an identity provider for single sign-on, write LMS results back over xAPI, and access utilization and outcome data by API. The company lists Android, iOS, macOS, web, Windows, and API platforms; headset support includes Meta Quest models and Oculus Rift S. Pricing is on request. The company is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

LabTrainingVR: Biosafety Cabinet Edition is a free virtual reality course for practicing safe work in a biological safety cabinet (BSC). Its 1.5 hours of training cover identifying Class II BSC parts, maintaining positive airflow, preparing for work, applying safe practices, decontaminating and shutting down, and emergency shutdown procedures. The course is designed for laboratory professionals, including public health and clinical laboratory staff, safety professionals, and others interested in safe BSC use. It supplements CDC’s existing eLearning course on working safely in a BSC. Learners practice in a virtual laboratory without exposure to pathogens or risk of accidental infection or release. The course is headset-only, with versions for HTC Vive and Oculus Quest 2; the equipment guide also identifies Meta Quest 2 and above and OpenXR-compatible headsets. It requires 360° tracking and a play area of at least 3 by 3 feet, with 20 by 20 feet listed as ideal. HTC Vive and tethered-headset setups require Windows 8.1 or later, at least 8 GB RAM, and 20 GB available storage, among other hardware requirements. Quest setup requires Wi-Fi and a mobile device for initial installation.