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FI - Kai Frazier (Kai XR) And VR For Kids
Kai is the founder of Kai XR. Kai XR is a kid-friendly virtual reality platform where kids can explore, dream, and create.
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Kai Frazier, founder and chief executive of Kai XR, calls it kid-friendly virtual reality where children explore, dream, and create. Students can take virtual field trips and build their own virtual adventures. She says the aim is an accessible path for educators, parents, and students to try mixed reality early. Kai XR is a website, with nothing to install. It runs on a headset and also on a phone, desktop, or laptop when a school has no headset. After login, Kai XR splits into three tiers: explore, dream, and create.
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Kai XR is web-based, no need to have a VR decide. Once you got to their site, you can explore different tiers. One place to check out is the virtual field trips.They also support mobile as well.
In Kai, there is a unity type area where student can design their own experiences, then go into VR and see what they built.
No coding needed.
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She isn't going all in one one model. She is happy to work with homeschoolers, public schools, children in hospitals, etc.
Technically, anyone can use Kai XR.
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VR is a great learning tool for kids. As a teacher, VR helps with reading comprehension. VR also exposes kids to realms they wouldn't have known otherwise, by experiencing it in VR.
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They have many things stacked against them.
1. Very few black women founders get funding 2. Edtech isn't a sexy category 3.Social impact isn't as interesting to investors. 4. VR is not an exciting space for investors
So it's been hard, even though they just went through TechStars.
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She wants all her users to end up building companies in the mixed reality space. She wants them to be able to do that with the skills they learned from Kai XR.