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Build a full immersive scenario using 2D images and 360° images, with every hotspot type and AI-assisted scene generation. Publish your scenario and share it up to 3 times. No credit card, no time limit, and your work is yours to keep. Upgrade any time to unlock 3D, video, unlimited sharing and full deployment.

No. Node XR is fully no-code. If you can use Canva or PowerPoint, you can build a scenario in Node XR. Most first-time creators publish their first working scenario within 20 minutes.

No. Node XR is designed so your own staff — educators, L&D teams, subject-matter experts — build and update scenarios themselves, which is how the cost stays flat as your content library grows. If you'd like filming or production done for you, our Studio & Production service and partner network can capture your environment and hand you an editable scenario.

Start on the free tier: no credit card, one creator and two simulations on desktop and mobile. Build a scenario from 2D or 360° images, publish it and share it. When you want to test with your team, the 14-day full trial gives you Pilot or Department features, or you can book a 30-minute guided demo.

Yes. The 14-day full trial is free, needs no credit card and gives you full Pilot or Department features to build a scenario, deliver it to your team and prove value. For a longer test, a Single Month Pass costs £199 as a one-time payment, and monthly plans can be cancelled at any time.

Yes, though it is optional. An onboarding workshop costs £2,000 if you want hands-on help getting started, and it is never required. NHS teams can add NHS DSPT Onboarding (£1,500) alongside it. Enterprise plans include up to 50 creator workshop hours and a dedicated customer success manager.

Usually not directly, because capital funding tends to buy equipment rather than software subscriptions. The Local Skills Improvement Fund, which put £165 million into English further education across 2023 to 2025, has ended, and Medr's digital capital funding in Wales explicitly excludes ongoing licence subscriptions. Check the current terms of whatever fund you are drawing on, and talk to us about the free tier and a single-term pilot in the meantime.

Yes. Scenarios can branch on every decision, so choices play out their consequences rather than hitting a generic wrong-answer screen. Interaction types include multiple choice, drag and drop, dialogue and voice recording, and attempts are auto-marked against weighted competency thresholds you define — rolled up into cohort dashboards.

AI Assist drafts the parts that take the longest: scenario scripts, branching dialogue, assessment questions, marking criteria and hotspot placement. You can generate 360° scenes from a text prompt, or upload your own documents — protocols, frameworks, policies — and have a scenario built around them, with every output editable before you publish.

Most scenes are 360° photos or 360° videos, but a scene can also be a flat 2D image, a 3D model, a Gaussian splat or a document. If you have no footage, AI Assist can generate a 360° scene from a text prompt. Learners move between scenes through the hotspots you place on them.

Yes. Multiple-choice questions are a hotspot type you place directly in a scene, alongside multiple response, drag and drop, ordering tasks, dialogue choices and voice recording. Wrong answers can show feedback or branch to a consequence, and attempts are auto-marked against weighted competency thresholds you define.

Yes. A stop point is a pause built into a 360° video's timeline. When playback reaches it, the video holds and presents a group of hotspots, such as a multiple-choice question, and the learner has to answer or complete a task before the action continues. The answer can also send the learner to a different scene.

Yes. Upload 3D models as glTF or GLB files and Gaussian splats as .splat files, and use them alongside 360° media in the same scenario. A splat lets learners move around a photorealistic captured space rather than viewing it from one fixed point. Both are part of the paid plans rather than the free tier.

Minutes for a first simple scenario, longer for a full programme. Most first-time creators publish a working scenario within 20 minutes, and the first scenario at the University of Worcester School of Nursing was published in five minutes. Bigger builds take longer: Merthyr Tydfil College took its construction scenario from concept to live in under three weeks.

Yes. Node XR is an authoring platform, so your own team edits a live scenario and republishes it, with no agency change request. Changes publish immediately, and because assets sit in one library, updating an asset once updates every experience that uses it. That is how teams keep scenarios in step when a protocol changes.

Yes. Upload any 360° image, 360° video, flat 2D image, 3D model, or Gaussian splat. Node XR handles stitching, projection and playback automatically. You can also generate scenes from a text prompt if you don't have your own footage.

Yes, with one extra step for PowerPoint. Direct .pptx import is not supported yet, so export your slides to PNG and add them as 2D scenes. Documents can be a scene in their own right or be attached to hotspots, and AI Assist can draft a scenario from documents you upload, such as a PDF protocol.

No. You can start with flat 2D images or photographs you already have, or describe the scene you need and AI Assist generates a 360° environment to place hotspots on. The free tier works with 2D and 360° images, and you can swap in your own footage later without rebuilding the scenario.

You can upload 360° images and video, flat images, standard video, 3D models, Gaussian splats, audio and documents. The editor accepts MP4, MOV, JPEG, PNG, glTF/GLB models, .splat files, WAV and MP3 audio and HTML documents. The free tier covers 2D and 360° images; video and 3D come with a paid plan.

Every modern device. Meta Quest 2, 3 and Pro, Pico, desktop browsers, iOS and Android phones and tablets, and fully immersive 270° / 360° projection walls. Build once, deploy everywhere: the same scenario, automatically adapted per device.

No. Every scenario runs in a desktop browser and on phones and tablets, so whole cohorts can train without any headset hardware. Headsets and immersive walls add presence when you want it — but it's the same build either way, so you can start browser-only and add devices later.

An immersive wall is a multi-screen panoramic projection space — often a 270° or 360° room — used for group training, exhibitions and immersive classrooms. Node XR publishes 2D presentations, 3D environments and 360° video natively to multi-wall hardware from the same build that serves headsets and browsers, so it works with the immersive room you already have.

Yes. Learners open scenarios in an ordinary desktop browser such as Chrome, Safari or Edge, with no install and no plugin, and the same scenario runs on iOS and Android phones and tablets. On VR headsets, Node XR runs in the browser via WebXR. Immersive walls work differently: they run from the install's own media server.

Yes. Scenarios run on iOS and Android phones and tablets from the same build as the browser and headset versions. With one login, a learner can start on a headset in class and finish the assessment on their phone on the way home, and scores from every device land in the same learner record.

Yes. Scenarios are shared as links, and a browser link sent to a whole cohort is the most common way Node XR is deployed. Because it is a link, you can also put it behind a QR code on a poster, stand or leaflet. You choose whether each scenario is open to anyone with the link, email-verified or login-only.

Yes. Scenarios are shared as links and run in an ordinary mobile browser, so an apprentice on site, in a salon or at a depot can open one on the phone they already carry. No app, no install and no headset. Their attempts land in the same learner record as the ones done in college, so a tutor sees one picture whether the apprentice was on campus or on placement.

Usually yes, through the headset's browser. Node XR scenarios run on standalone headsets such as Meta Quest and Pico via WebXR, with no app to sideload. Dormant estates are common: Jisc found 78% of UK tertiary institutions had invested in XR while only 55% reported moderate to extensive use. The fix is normally content your own team can author and a named owner for the kit, not more hardware.

Your headsets keep working; the managed service around them does not. Meta stopped selling commercial Quest models and taking new Horizon Managed Services customers on 20 February 2026, dropped existing subscription fees to zero, and will shut the programme down on 4 January 2030. Plan for standard device management plus content you control, rather than a managed route bought from the manufacturer.

Wipe-clean or disposable face covers, a fresh wipe for the inner then the outer headset, manufacturer-approved products only, a dry microfibre cloth for lenses, then air dry before the next user. The published protocols make one point people miss: Velcro straps and absorbent foam cannot be disinfected, so swap them for wipeable or disposable alternatives. In healthcare, follow your local infection prevention policy.

A Pod is a smaller installation, typically up to three walls or projectors, without a floor surface. Rooms are larger installations with four to eight projection surfaces plus a projected floor. The difference reflects the integration time and pipeline support each install requires, not the number of learners — both tiers are unlimited on how many people can train in them.

No. The platform stands alone for VR, browser, tablet and phone delivery. You can build and deploy a full training programme without ever touching a Walls licence. The Walls tiers are only relevant if you already have, or are installing, a Pod or Room.

Yes — that is the entire model. Node XR is a hybrid 3D spatial editor: you author on a desktop, preview the wall layout in 3D in your browser, and publish to the install once. The same scenario also plays on VR, desktop, tablet and mobile if you have the platform add-on.

Each install is its own licence. For multi-site deployments — for example three Rooms across two campuses — we provide a single combined quote. Talk to sales for a site-wide arrangement.

Anything that runs a Windows or Linux media server with HDMI/DisplayPort output to projectors or LED panels. Our deepest integrations are with Gener8 Spaces, Immersive Interactive, Igloo and Mission Room, but Node XR is hardware-agnostic and works with bespoke CAVE and powerwall installs. We confirm compatibility for your specific install in writing within 48 hours.

Yes. The editor accepts MP4, MOV, JPEG, PNG, 360° images, 360° video, glTF/GLB 3D models, Gaussian splats, audio (WAV, MP3) and HTML documents. PowerPoint slides can be exported to PNG and dropped in — direct .pptx import is not supported yet.

A single published scenario contains a wall layout that Node XR slices across the surfaces in your install at runtime, synchronising playback frame-by-frame. Branching choices propagate across all surfaces in milliseconds, so there is no per-wall authoring to do.

10–14 weeks. Discovery and scripting take 2–3 weeks, on-site filming is 1–3 days inside weeks 4–5, and post-production is 6–9 weeks depending on revision rounds.

Yes. UK travel and accommodation is included in every package. International filming is available on request — we have filmed in Ireland, Australia and across Europe — and is quoted separately based on destination.

Every scenario includes one revision round during production. After launch, there is a 30-day refinement window for small fixes — typos, voice-over edits, hotspot reordering — at no charge. Larger changes are quoted at £750 per additional round.

Yes. Additional scenarios are £1,750 each at the same fixed price. If we can bundle them into a single filming visit you save the additional travel cost too, and volume discounts are available on 4+ scenarios.

Yes, the finished scenarios are your IP. You can use them in your organisation, white-label them, and — with Marketplace partner status — sell them on the Node XR Marketplace at the 70/30 split.

No — anyone can buy a scenario. What you can do with it depends on whether you also hold a Node Creator licence. Without a licence, the scenario plays on desktop browsers and runs exactly as the creator built it. With a Node Creator licence, you can adapt every scene, hotspot and voiceover, and deploy across VR, immersive wall, mobile, tablet and desktop. Most institutions buy with a licence because they want both.

Yes. Your purchase is a lifetime licence for your whole organisation: no expiry, no annual renewal, no per-seat fees. You can deploy it to every learner who joins your institution going forward.

Once you have bought a scenario and you hold a Node Creator licence, you can re-record voiceover, change hotspot text, edit branching logic, swap in your own branding and footage, add or remove scenes, and change the assessment rubric, then republish — all without paying extra. The original creator’s version stays intact for you to revert to at any time. Without a Node Creator licence, the scenario runs as-is.

With a Node Creator licence: every modern device — Meta Quest 2, 3 and Pro, Pico, desktop browsers, iOS and Android phones and tablets, and immersive projection walls — with Node XR adapting the interaction model per device automatically. Without a licence, the scenario plays on desktop browsers only (Chrome, Safari, Edge).

Immediately. Once payment clears, the scenario is available to deploy. Licence holders see it in their Node Creator workspace ready to adapt; non-licence buyers receive a desktop-playback link and a pre-built SCORM package.

Yes. The organisation-wide licence means every learner enrolled at your institution can run the scenario, across as many cohorts, terms and intakes as you like — whether or not you hold a Node Creator licence.

Yes. Every scenario includes a pre-built SCORM 1.2 / 2004 package you can drop into Moodle, Canvas, Blackboard, Teams, Cornerstone, Docebo or any compliant LMS. With a Node Creator licence you can also re-export your adapted version as fresh SCORM, xAPI or LTI 1.3 at any time.

Yes. You get a 30-day no-questions refund from the date of purchase. If the scenario does not fit your cohort, email hello@nodexr.com and we will process the refund.

Your Node XR account manager is included with a Node Creator licence. For Marketplace-bought scenarios you also get a free 30-minute kickoff call with the creator if they offer it, and we will arrange the introduction.

Every session is scored and tracked: each learner decision and retry is captured, attempts are auto-marked with weighted competency thresholds, and you can watch a 360° replay of any headset session. Results roll up into cohort dashboards and export to your LMS via xAPI, SCORM or CSV — audit-ready evidence, not just completion ticks.

Yes. Node XR records every learner, every decision and every retry, so each attempt shows the choice taken at each branch point, the time spent, the number of attempts and the resulting score. For headset sessions you can also watch a 360° replay of what the learner saw.

Gaze tracking records where a learner is looking inside a 360° scene as they play. Node XR samples it roughly once a second, and trainers can replay an attempt with attention shown as a heatmap, to see whether someone noticed the hazard, the patient cue or the safety notice, or looked straight past it.

Yes. Results export to your LMS via SCORM 1.2, SCORM 2004, xAPI or cmi5, and as CSV. xAPI carries event-level data, every hotspot, decision and branch, into an LMS or learning record store. On the Professional and Faculty plans and above, a documented REST API gives programmatic access for your own pipelines and data warehouses.

Automatically, against a scheme you define. You decide which decisions and answers carry marks and set weighted competency thresholds for a pass. Node XR marks each attempt against that scheme, and with Data Mode the result goes straight to your LMS gradebook, so educators do not mark anything by hand.

Yes, if you want to keep and query the statements. xAPI describes how learning events are recorded and sent; a learning record store is the system that receives and stores them. Without one, use SCORM or CSV export and your LMS gradebook, which covers completion and score. Choose an LRS when you want event-level data, such as every decision and retry, feeding reporting or a data warehouse.

No. Node XR works as an SSO Service Provider via SAML 2.0 and OIDC. Learners click through from your existing identity provider — Microsoft Entra ID, Google Workspace, Apple School Manager, Clever, Okta, or any SAML-compliant IdP — and the role mapping happens automatically.

Moodle, Canvas, Blackboard Learn, Cornerstone, Docebo, 360Learning, TalentLMS, Absorb LMS, Microsoft Teams and the NHS LearningHub. For anything else we support xAPI, SCORM 1.2, SCORM 2004, cmi5, LTI 1.3 and a REST API — if your LMS can read SCORM packages, Node XR works with it.

Every learner decision is captured in Data Mode against a competency map you define. When the learner finishes, Data Mode auto-marks the attempt and pushes the result to your LMS gradebook via xAPI or SCORM. Educators do not mark anything, and auditors get a full session replay on demand.

Yes. Build the scenario once and Node XR adapts the interaction model per device: headset for individual immersion, laptop or phone for revision and remote learning, immersive wall for whole-cohort tutor-led sessions. Scores from every device land in the same learner record.

Yes. Node XR is Cyber Essentials Plus certified, NHS DSPT compliant, GDPR-compliant, and hosted on AWS UK for full data residency. Learner data is encrypted at rest and in transit, never used to train AI, and exportable or deletable on request.

LTI 1.3 for live teaching, SCORM when a package has to be handed over or archived. An LTI launch leaves the scenario where it is built, so edits appear immediately and grades return through Assignment and Grade Services. A SCORM package is a frozen copy you re-export whenever the content changes, which is the right trade only when the file itself has to travel.

Two routes, both native to Moodle. The External tool activity launches a scenario over LTI 1.3, which keeps the content live and returns grades to the Moodle gradebook. The SCORM activity plays an exported package instead, which suits archived or handed-over content. Node XR lists Moodle as a native integration with SCORM 1.2 and xAPI score pass-through, and a native plugin is available.

Yes, via SCORM 1.2, SCORM 2004, xAPI, LTI 1.3 and cmi5. Live integrations with Moodle, Canvas, Blackboard Learn, 360Learning, Microsoft Teams and NHS LearningHub. For anything else, our REST API or SCORM export works with virtually any LMS.

Almost certainly. Node XR exports SCORM 1.2, SCORM 2004, xAPI and cmi5. If your LMS supports any of those — and the vast majority do — it will accept Node XR content. For a specific edge case, contact sales@nodexr.com and we will confirm in writing.

Yes, on the Professional / Faculty plan and above. We expose a documented REST API for content metadata, learner events and admin operations.

The free tier supports Google and LinkedIn SSO. Full SAML / OIDC / Entra ID integration is included from the Enterprise / Institution plan.

Yes. Pilot / Department plans include Moodle, Canvas and SCORM/xAPI. Professional / Faculty and above include the full integration suite, including Blackboard, Teams, Google Classroom and custom API access.

Yes. Node XR supports bilingual Welsh and English scenarios natively, with built-in voice generation in 40+ languages via ElevenLabs and Polly. Used by NHS Wales, Welsh Government and Welsh universities for bilingual clinical and educational training.

Yes. Node XR supports bilingual Welsh and English scenarios natively: one scenario carries both languages and learners choose which to use. Built-in voice generation via ElevenLabs and Polly covers 40+ languages, so you can localise narration for other cohorts without maintaining a separate scenario per market.

NHS teams build clinical scenarios that match their own wards and protocols. Cardiff and Vale University Health Board drills clinical staff in acute cardiac assessment — patient assessment, triage and SBAR handover, with branching decisions and patient point-of-view scenes — recording a 94% first-time pass rate across its 2025 cohort. Bilingual scenarios are also used across NHS Wales.

Mostly for safe pre-induction: learners master hazards before entering real workshops. ACT Training Wales apprentices spot every hazard in a salon that mirrors the ones they'll work in — improving hazard identification accuracy by 45% against baseline — and Merthyr Tydfil College took a construction safety induction from concept to live in under three weeks. Scenarios map to the standards your awarding body asks for.

Yes — that's the model. One build deploys to every region and device, with voice generation in 40+ languages for localised cohorts. Zurich Insurance Group trains every engineer who certifies a forklift, across every region, from a single Node XR build — and lifted inspection completion by 87% against its previous programme.

In England, yes, as simulation. The apprenticeship funding rules list simulation exercises among the forms of teaching of theory that count as off-the-job training, provided the activity falls inside the practical period, happens in the apprentice's working hours and teaches knowledge, skills and behaviours the standard requires. Record the hours as you would for any taught session. Wales is funded separately, through Welsh Government and Medr, under its own rules.

Mostly for commercial work: sales, marketing, events and product familiarisation. Medtech teams turn the videos, PDFs, decks, 3D models and 360° imagery they already own into AR tours of hubs, full-size instruments placed in a customer's space, navigable virtual labs, stand content and lead capture. At IBMS Congress 2025, BD recorded 190% more interactions and 30% more qualified prospects than the previous year.

Yes. Existing 3D models, product videos, PDFs, decks and 360° imagery are adapted as they stand, which is why most first activations need no new content budget. A 3D model made for a brochure render can be placed at full size in a customer's own lab, and a linear product video can become a journey with decision points.

No. Node XR's medtech work is commercial: sales, marketing, events and product familiarisation. It is not clinical simulation, makes no claim about patient outcomes and is not a substitute for regulated clinical training. Product familiarisation for new starters is in scope, and clinical education is a separate use by NHS trusts and universities.

The same way as the rest of your promotional material. An immersive experience is promotional content, so it needs claim control, version control and a record of what was approved. The ABHI Code in the UK and the MedTech Europe Code still apply, and your compliance team, not the platform vendor, decides how.

Less than most people expect. A tablet or a screen is enough to start, and visitors' own phones do a lot of the work through QR codes and AR markers. Immersive walls and Cubes are the upgrade, not the entry point, and Node XR is the software layer running on whatever hardware your stand builder installs.

With a small mechanism at the end of the experience: a short form after a tour, a takeaway pack sent to an email address, or a branded game with questions your team edits. Captured contacts export for follow-up and can be wired into your CRM. A lead is most useful when it records which experience the visitor explored.

Yes. Because everything sits in one library rather than a per-event project folder, the same build can become a follow-up link for sales, a self-guided tour in a showroom or hub, a product familiarisation module for new starters, and the starting point for next year's stand. Updating an asset once updates it everywhere it appears.

Compare the same show with itself, year on year, and count conversations rather than scans. Track interactions, dwell time per experience, tour completion, scans per marker, captures per interaction and which experiences produced leads that became real conversations. Report qualified prospects alongside interactions, because more interactions is not automatically more pipeline.

No. Immersive simulation replaces rehearsal and repetition, not manikin work, supervised practice or anything requiring hands. It suits the repeatable parts of a scenario, such as recognising a deteriorating patient or walking an escalation pathway, so that faculty time in the sim suite goes on the parts that need a person in the room.

Mostly information governance. The usual gates are DTAC, the supplier's DSPT status, a DPIA, Cyber Essentials Plus and data residency. Node XR holds Cyber Essentials Plus, supplies a DPIA pack and hosts data in the UK on AWS. Clinical risk standards DCB0129 and DCB0160 are usually out of scope for staff-only training, but take local advice.

Yes, and it is the recommended approach. Film the real space in 360°, or use photographs and renders you already have, then place hotspots, decision points and scoring over it. Locally filmed scenarios match your own escalation protocols, equipment and layouts. If you would rather not film yourselves, Node XR's Studio team can film on site.

Yes, within limits. The NMC allows up to 600 of the 2,300 practice learning hours in pre-registration nursing to be met through simulated practice learning. What counts is the design of the learning rather than the technology, and the decision sits with the approved education institution, not with Node XR or any other vendor.

Yes, in different ways. The GMC accepts that some practical procedures may be learned on a simulated patient or manikin before graduation. The HCPC prescribes no core number of practice hours, so education providers decide where simulation can be meaningfully applied. Neither lets simulation replace practice outright, and the university's programme team makes the decision.

Yes. The same deteriorating patient can be built once, with branch points written for each profession: the paramedic student's handover, the nursing student's escalation and the medical student's assessment. Every student sees the same situation, while each course marks its own decisions against its own outcomes.

By answering the standards questions early. Scenarios launch through LTI 1.3 into Canvas, Blackboard or Moodle, results export as SCORM 1.2, SCORM 2004, xAPI or cmi5, and single sign-on comes with multi-factor authentication. Data is hosted in the UK on AWS, Node XR holds Cyber Essentials Plus, and accessibility will be assessed against WCAG 2.2 AA.

Tiers are based on your trailing 12-month Revenue Generated — the gross contract value Node XR invoices from your Partner-Led Deals and Partner-Introduced Opportunities combined. Pilot is £0–£49,999, Professional £50,000–£149,999 and Enterprise £150,000+. Tiers are reviewed quarterly, and new partners who hit £25,000 in their first 6 months are auto-upgraded to Professional without waiting for the next review.

Education licences (Department £2,500, Faculty £7,500, Institution £15,000) carry lower margin than Commercial deals. To keep both Node XR and partners profitable on Education sales, the percentage rates are halved: Pilot 15% / Professional 17.5% / Enterprise 20% for partner-led, and 5–7.5% for affiliate introductions.

24 months from the date of the customer’s first payment. After that, the recurring share ceases automatically. You still keep the initial commission earned on the original deal.

All partner payments are made within 30 days of Node XR receiving payment from the end customer. Recurring shares are paid quarterly in arrears, and a real-time earnings dashboard shows pending, earned and projected commission.

Register a prospective opportunity by email and you get a 90-day exclusivity window on that customer. During that window, any inbound enquiry from the same prospect is routed to you as a Partner-Led Deal.

Partner-Led: you identify the customer, manage the sales process and close the deal, earning the full tier commission (30–40%) plus a 24-month recurring share. Affiliate: you make a warm introduction, Node XR closes the deal, and you earn a one-time introduction fee (10–15% by tier).

Yes. Node XR carries Cyber Essentials Plus, NHS DSPT compliance, and is on the NHS Framework, so you do not need separate procurement to sell into the public sector or NHS.

Yes. Many partners run Partner-Led Deals in their primary market and submit Partner-Introduced Opportunities elsewhere. Marketplace creators (the 70/30 split) are a separate programme on top, and also stackable.

Yes. Node XR is Cyber Essentials Plus certified, GDPR compliant, and hosted on AWS UK for full data residency. All learner data is encrypted at rest and in transit, never used for AI training, and you can export or delete it at any time.

No. Learner data is never used to train AI models. It's encrypted at rest and in transit, hosted on AWS UK for full data residency, and you can export or delete your organisation's data at any time.

Yes. Node XR supports single sign-on and multi-factor authentication for organisational accounts, alongside per-scenario access controls — public link, email-verified, or full login — so you choose how tightly each scenario is gated.

In the UK, on AWS. Node XR is hosted entirely in the AWS eu-west-2 (London) region, and no customer data leaves UK jurisdiction. Backups are encrypted and replicated across multiple availability zones within the UK, with AES-256 encryption at rest and TLS 1.2 or higher in transit.

Yes. Node XR supplies a pre-completed DPIA pack for information governance review, on request. It sets out what personal data is processed and why, and you can also request a DPA, architecture diagrams and DSPT evidence. Your organisation still owns its DPIA: the pack gives your team the supplier detail it needs to complete it.

There is no blanket yes: ask for Node XR's current accessibility statement and assess it against WCAG 2.2 AA, the standard set by the UK public sector accessibility regulations. What is clear is that no learner needs a headset. Scenarios run in a desktop browser, on phones and tablets and on immersive walls, and hotspots can show text or play audio.

No, not as a certification. Node XR aligns its security practices to ISO 27001, and its security page lists that alignment as in progress. The certification it does hold is Cyber Essentials Plus, certified annually, and it is compliant with the NHS Data Security and Protection Toolkit (DSPT).

Both are no-code tools for interactive media, and ThingLink is particularly strong for interactive images and virtual tours in schools. Node XR is built specifically for assessed immersive training: branching scenarios with weighted scoring, 360° video with timed stop points, session replay and cohort analytics, LMS export, and native deployment to VR headsets and immersive walls — with UK data residency as standard.

Bodyswaps licenses a ready-made library of VR soft-skills modules — polished content, but fixed. Node XR is an authoring platform: your team creates scenarios of your own environments — your ward, your salon, your site — aligned to your protocols and awarding-body specs, and updates them whenever things change. Some organisations run both: a library for generic soft skills, Node XR for everything specific to them.

They are built for different jobs. Virti's platform centres on AI role-play, where learners practise conversations with AI virtual humans and get instant feedback. Node XR is a no-code authoring platform for 360° scenarios with hotspots, branching and scoring, built around filming your own workplace and deploying one build to browsers, phones, headsets and immersive walls.

There is real overlap: both are no-code tools for building immersive training from 360° content, delivered to headsets and desktops. Facilitate's strengths include multi-user VR sessions and live instructor oversight. Node XR centres on one build for browsers, phones, headsets and immersive walls, with native Welsh and English delivery and NHS DSPT compliance.

Because the two numbers measure different things. Agencies publish 8 to 10 weeks for a straightforward VR build and 12 to 20 weeks for a custom programme, and that covers discovery, asset production, development and review rounds. Our 20 minutes is time in the editor for a first working scenario. A realistic end-to-end figure for an authored scenario is one to three weeks, because deciding what to teach and getting it approved still takes as long as it ever did.

DIGI SIM became Node XR in 2026. Same platform, same team — Node XR is built by Virtus Tech, the Cardiff-based company behind DIGI SIM — with a new name to match where the product has grown: AI-assisted creation, immersive walls, and deployment across VR, browser, mobile and projection spaces.

It shows a moderate average benefit that shrinks close to zero in the best-designed studies. A second-order meta-analysis pooling 26 meta-analyses found an overall effect of 0.55, falling to 0.35 and not statistically significant among low risk of bias studies. What reliably predicts a result is how well the simulation matches the real task, not the hardware. We sell this platform and would rather you knew that.