We can go further, together
We are proud of the partnerships we have forged over the years and the accomplishments that we have made together.
Virginia Innovation Partnership Corporation
AccessVR has a strong, collaborative relationship with the Virginia Innovation Partnership Corporation (VIPC), having worked in developing Virginia’s Virtual City (V-City) as part of the Commonwealth’s Smart Communities initiative. The nonprofit operations arm of the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority (VIPA), VIPC is the commercialization and seed stage economic development driver in the Commonwealth that leads funding, infrastructure, and policy initiatives to support Virginia's innovators, entrepreneurs, startups, and market development strategies. VIPC collaborates with local, regional, state, and federal partners to support the expansion and diversification of Virginia’s economy. For more information, please visit www.VirginiaIPC.org. Follow VIPC on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook.
The V-City project — in which our leadership team and Brain Trust members participated — from conception through to operation — is a model ecosystem for how Virginians can work, entertain, and socialize in a virtual world. This initiative will build capacity and expertise in virtual reality (VR) around the Commonwealth to enable Virginia to be an early economic leader in the virtual economy of the future.
AccessVR is also working with CIT and Stafford County in the development of its new “smart” Town Center to be known as Downtown Stafford. Building on the work of the Virginia Smart Communities Working Group and related efforts, Virginia now has a Smart Communities State Action Plan. The plan calls for pilot projects to begin the process of building capacity and expertise around the Commonwealth, and these pilots are now underway. The pilots rely on “community-driven innovation” to identify topics relevant to each community and include a technology partner and support to initiate “agreed upon priorities.”
Stafford Smart City Initiative
The VR/AR Association serves as a liaison between the V-City and Virtual Service Providers (i.e., technical creators and VR design creators) who want to interact, engage, and sell their services within the V-City. The association has access to a worldwide network of VR/AR producers, and is responsible for managing relationships, communications, innovation and engagement with these creators for the V-City.
VR/AR Association
Germanna Community College is a public, comprehensive Virginia community college with campuses in Locust Grove, Fredericksburg, Stafford and Culpeper. It provides accessible, high quality educational and training opportunities that address the community’s diverse and changing learning needs.
Germanna Community College
Conrad Foundation - Champion Partner
The Conrad Foundation’s mission is to “strive to promote collaborative, student-centered, real-world relevant learning that fosters innovation and entrepreneurship.” Fifteen years ago, Nancy Conrad, retired high school teacher and wife of astronaut Pete Conrad, started the Conrad Foundation as a way of unleashing students’ potential to create impactful solutions and a sustainable society for generations to come. AccessVR is excited to partner with the Conrad Foundation in bringing that dream to the V-City in a series of explorations that will enhance STEM learning in K-12. Additionally, AccessVR is proud to be a Conrad Challenge Champion Partner. The Conrad Challenge is “an annual, multi-phase competition that encourages creative, critical thinking and entrepreneurial collaboration among student teams around the world.”
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