Custom XR software
VR, AR and mixed reality products, prototypes and specialist tools built around real users and real constraints.
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Serious software. Vivid worlds.
Nudge Reality is a Chester-based XR studio building virtual, augmented and mixed reality software for healthcare, training, simulation, education and games. We help organisations turn complex ideas into immersive experiences people can use, test and trust.
- Healthcare XR
- Games and simulation
- Training tools
- Education technology
In motion
See the work in motion.
The showreel includes VR rehabilitation, clinical training, games, simulations and education projects built by Nudge Reality.
Who we are
A specialist XR studio for complex ideas.
Nudge Reality builds VR, AR and mixed reality software with clinicians, trainers, educators and product teams. Most projects start with a practical problem: a task to practise, a procedure to explain, a scenario to test or a product idea that needs evidence.
Healthcare and rehabilitation
Immersive healthcare work shaped with clinical context, careful claims and attention to the evidence stage.
Healthcare XR workTraining and simulation
Scenario-based practice for skills, procedures and decisions that are difficult, costly or risky to rehearse in the real world.
Training simulationsGames, WebXR and tools
Interactive worlds, browser-based prototypes and supporting tools that make immersive ideas easier to share and test.
WebXR developmentHealthcare XR
Healthcare projects from rehabilitation to clinical training.
Healthcare is a major part of Nudge Reality's work: VR rehabilitation, digital health R&D, clinical training and medical-device development support.
These projects need more than good visuals. They need clear intended use, useful interaction design, proportionate language and a route from promising prototype to something clinicians, researchers, funders and product teams can discuss seriously.
Healthcare R&D
CorteXR
VR rehabilitation software that turns everyday stroke-recovery tasks into structured, repeatable practice.
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Digital health R&D
THRIVE-FND
Immersive hypnotherapy R&D shaped with NHS clinical partners for Functional Neurological Disorder pathways.
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Education technology
Lesson Spark
AR learning activities for children with ASD, designed around attention, visual cues and parent-teacher feedback.
View education workEvidence for immersive learning
The case for XR is strongest when practice matters.
Recent reviews and enterprise studies point in the same direction: immersive training can improve speed, confidence, knowledge and transfer when it is designed around active practice rather than spectacle.
Enterprise training
4x
faster than classroom training
PwC's VR soft-skills study found learners completed training up to four times faster than classroom learners, while reporting stronger confidence and focus.
Learning efficiency
+30%
more efficient per training hour
A 2024 World Bank meta-analysis reported that students exposed to VR training were up to 30% more efficient than students using traditional training.
Healthcare education
Better knowledge retention
than traditional teaching
A 2024 JMIR meta-analysis of immersive nursing education found learners retained more knowledge than learners taught with traditional methods.
Procedural training
Better transfer
from practice to performance
A 2024 systematic review found immersive procedural training improved learning overall, with the strongest results in transferring knowledge into use.
Sources: PwC VR soft-skills training study; World Bank meta-analysis on VR training; JMIR 2024 immersive nursing education meta-analysis; Computers & Education: X Reality 2024 procedural training review.
Results depend on the task, audience and design quality, so each Nudge Reality project is shaped and tested around its own context.
Games, training and simulation
Projects beyond healthcare, built with the same craft.
Some projects are clinical. Others are games, simulations, classroom tools or operational training. What links them is interaction design: helping people make decisions, practise and learn by doing.
Simulation
DroneOps VR
Drone training simulation for hazard awareness, flight planning and operational decision-making.
Education technology
StageCraft VR
VR theatre education for rehearsing staging, movement, lighting and production decisions.
Healthcare training
TrainTrach
Mixed reality tracheostomy training using direct hand tracking, tactile props and a realistic bedside simulation.
Clinical training
StrokeID
Stroke and TIA assessment training with patient avatars, acute-care settings and structured decision scenarios.
Where it helps
What XR can do when it is built around the task.
Realistic simulations
Immersive scenarios that resemble the decisions, constraints and pressures people meet in the real world.
Team interaction
Shared spaces for remote collaboration, group tasks and communication as part of the experience.
Safer learning
Practise difficult tasks without risking people, equipment or confidence while skills are still forming.
Situational roleplay
Scenarios with digital characters, changing conditions and room for different behaviours and outcomes.
Partners and funders
Built in good company.
Across healthcare R&D, public funding, education, simulation and assurance, Nudge Reality's work has sat alongside organisations that expect seriousness as well as imagination.
Selected organisations connected with Nudge Reality projects, funding routes, collaborations and assurance.
Selected organisations shown include project partners, funders, healthcare collaborators and assurance references.
Contact
Work with Nudge Reality.
For new XR products, funded R&D, healthcare collaborations, training simulations or early prototypes, start with a short conversation. We can help shape the brief, choose the right immersive format and build a version people can understand.