reality founded 1999 headquarters irvine california area served worldwide products interactive 3d software immersive 3d displays virtual reality mobile applications augmented reality mobile applications website http www.eonreality.com eon reality is a multinational virtual reality and augmented reality software developer headquartered in irvine california . 1 2 3 the company was founded by dan lejerskar mikael jacobsson and mats w. johansson in 1999 . 4 5 johansson is eon reality s ceo 6 and lejerskar is eon reality s chairman . 7 the company s clients include entities such as boeing microsoft lexus and cornell university . 6 the company s joint ventures include eonvision eon sports eon reality ttr eon reality ksa and eon reality mauritius . 8 9 eon reality has subsidiaries in manchester laval gothenburg and singapore . 10 11 12 history edit in 1999 dan lejerskar mikael jacobsson and mats w. johansson founded eon reality . 4 the company s suzuki sales p.r.o. was named most innovative product by the kiosk awards in 2004 . 13 eon reality licensed microsoft s touchlight technology through microsoft s ip ventures program in 2006 . 14 orange county innovation recognized eon reality at its innovator s showcase and celebration in october 2006 . 15 eon reality supplied its simulation solutions for training and development at a technology center in brazil owned by senai a brazilian industrial apprenticeship service in september 2010 . 16 in march 2013 eon reality opened an interactive research and development center in manchester england . 1 12 the company opened its entrepreneur coding school to teach coding 3d modeling design and development . 17 eon sports an athletic virtual reality training software company was founded as a subdivision of eon reality in 2013 . 18 eon sports launched a virtual reality training program for football players in february 2014 . 18 19 ucla ole miss syracuse university the university of kansas and 100 high schools are using the software . 20 by the end of 2013 eon reality opened an education and entertainment research and development and production center in laval france . 21 eon reality launched the eon innovation program a start up incubator program in march 2014 . 22 the following month the company established an interactive digital center and eon entrepreneur school in moscow russia and muscat oman . 2 23 in october eon reality signed an agreement with the mauritius state investment corporation and state informatics ltd. to invest 13.1 million us dollars in an interactive digital center in mauritius . 24 in november 2014 the company partnered with duncanville texas to establish a virtual reality school . 25 midwam a 3d learning hologram and virtual reality solutions based in saudi arabia partnered with eon reality in december . 26 in january 2015 mats w. johansson was awarded global innovator of the year from the big summit . 6 in march 2015 richard leese stated that eon reality contributed to the growth of manchester s creative sector to become one of the largest in the world . 27 that month eon reality partered with duncanville texas to establish the duncanville entrepreneur school . 28 29 the company partnered with the saudi commission for tourism and antiquities to pioneer turnkey solutions for 3d virtual reality and augmented reality for bait nassief a unesco world heritage site in april 2015 . 30 the following month exxonmobil awarded a global commercial license for immersive 3d operator training simulator technology to eon reality . 31 the tampa bay buccaneers announced that they were using eon reality s sidekiq football simulator software for their training camp in july 2015 . 32 the new england patriots san francisco 49ers and dallas cowboys also invested in the technology . 33 in november 2015 the interactive digital center in mauritius opened . 34 also in november it was announced that eon sports partnered with jason giambi and created project ops a baseball training solution . 35 36 the tampa bay rays announced that they will use the eon sports technology for training . 37 the company s vr tools have also been used as a recruitment tool by college football teams . 38 in december 2015 eon reality announced a partnership with deakin university to launch the interactive digital centre hub . 39 eon reality opened an interactive digital center in tshwane in april 2016 . 40 that same month the company announced that was investing 20 million to build a virtual reality development center in the municipality of atizapan in mexico . 41 the center will help develop applications in spanish . 42 operations edit in 2014 eon reality and its idcs have 450 employees worldwide . 21 the company develops virtual reality and augmented reality products aimed to improve knowledge transfer . eon reality sells its software to corporations universities governments and the entertainment industry . 3 the company has interactive digital centers in manchester laval moscow jeddah doha and muscat . in 2016 eon reality released a free 3 d learning app for android and ios called eon experience avr . the app also allows users to create learning experiences . 43 44 references edit a b edd gent march 21 2013 . firm offers free 12 month 3d software coding course . retrieved may 2 2015 . a b eon reality and croc inaugurate the first interactive digital center in russia . april 2 2014 . retrieved may 2 2015 . a b virtual reality technology comes of age . march 27 2012 . retrieved may 2 2015 . a b eon reality they are virtually here . retrieved may 2 2015 . eon technology puts holograms at hand . september 26 2006 . retrieved may 2 2015 . a b c virtual reality what s here and what s possible . january 1 2015 . retrieved may 2 2015 . interview with dan lejerskar chairman of eon reality . may 4 2007 . retrieved may 2 2015 . new virtual reality technology could redefine youth football instruction . november 11 2014 . retrieved may 2 2015 . eon reality mauritius vers un bond en avant des 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company is using virtual reality to teach football . fortune . may 22 2015 . retrieved september 10 2015 . a b eon reality choisit laval la mecque de la r alit virtuelle . june 11 2014 . retrieved may 2 2015 . eon innovate program launch . march 21 2014 . retrieved may 2 2015 . asm tech launches new virtual reality centre . april 7 2014 . retrieved may 2 2015 . mauritius gets interactive digital center to fast track employable students in africa . october 15 2014 . retrieved may 2 2015 . duncanville eon partner to establish virtual reality school . retrieved may 2 2015 . saudi arabia pioneering high tech edutainment in the middle east with new digital centre by midwam . december 14 2014 . retrieved may 2 2015 . sir richard leese commends manchester s creative sector . manchester evening news . march 20 2015 . retrieved september 9 2015 . duncanville tx welcomes entrepreneur school . march 19 2015 . retrieved september 10 2015 . duncanville teams up with firm to open 3d virtual 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