The Engage XR platform holds a mix of different types of gatherings in VR ranging from educational meetings, corporate communications, and virtual events and conferences. With the onset of the pandemic in 2020, then HTC started holding a number of their conferences and announcements on the Engage platform, and eventually became an investor. I had a chance to speak with the CEO David Whelan back in May of 2021 to get a bit more context and history of the Engage Platform.

Engage has continued to develop and evolve as a platform, and it’s worth making a couple of notes including that they changed their name from “VR Education Holdings PLC to “ENGAGE XR Holdings PLC” on November 4, 2021, and their ENGAGE Link platform launched on November 7, 2022, which is how they presented their Fatboy Slim concert in March 2023 (more on that in the next episode).

But Engage XR has continued to innovate in the social VR platform space with their cross-platform support, and optimizations for Quest VR. This conversation with CEO Whelan from May 2021 should provide a lot more context for the history and evolution of their platform, and set the context for how they’re continue to evolve and innovate in the space.