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AR, VR, Simulation-Based Learning Products Causing Profound Changes to Training Market;
Metaari Predicts These Technologies Will Drive Spending of $15.6 Billion by 2025
LOS ANGELES -- Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2020 -- The global market for AR, VR and Simulation-Based learning products is in the midst of profound transformation, not growing traditionally via small incremental changes to existing products annually but driven by fundamentally new types of learning products. Metaari, the dominant firm analyzing change in the learning technologies market, forecasts global revenues will surge to $15.6 billion by 2025.

The one common characteristic of these new learning technologies is that they enable real-time performance improvement.

"These next-generation AR, VR, and Simulation-Based products accomplish both knowledge transfer and learning transfer, each a phase of the learning process, simultaneously," Sam Adkins…

ORLANDO -- January 15, 2020 -- Entries in the 2020 International Serious Play Awards competition for Digital Serious Games are due February 15. 

International Serious Play Awards honor outstanding commercial titles designed for use in education or training programs.

Entry categories include: Corporate/Vocational; Healthcare/Medical; Local and State Government/Military; Museum/Visitor Centers; PreK Education; K-12 Education; Higher Education; and Other.

The entry form can be found here: https://seriousplayconf.com/international-serious-play-award-programs/
Media Contact:
Sue Bohle
310 721 9083
sue@seriousplayconf.com

A Record $18.66 Billion Flowed to Game-Based Learning Companies Globally in 2019
ORLANDO -- January 14, 2020 -- Investment in learning technology companies in 2019 blasted past previous highs, reaching $18.66 billion in 2019.

After 2018 surprised the industry, 2019 set another record. And in fact, investments in 2018 and 2019 combined far outstrip the total combined investments made to all ed tech companies during 20-year period between 1998 and 2017, according to serious games analyst firm, Metaari.

Across the globe, almost 900 learning technology companies reported investment. Forty-four companies received more than $100 million in funding in 2019. Of those, 17 were in the U.S. and 12 in China.

A big switch for 2019 was the steep increase in investment in corporate-facing advanced learning technology and higher education products. Investment in preK-12 and parent-facing educational software declined. 
Metaari has just released a free white paper, available at https://seriousplayconf.…

Serious Play Wire, a free news service covering new game-based products, platforms, simulations, technology and software as well as announcements about people, college game programs and analyst reports launches today.
The direct to email news feed is for anyone in the Serious Games Industry: corporate learning officers; government, military and healthcare training professionals; business consultancies; medical, nursing and pharmaceutical school faculty; instructional designers; solution providers; game developers; higher ed faculty; ed tech teachers, school administrators and curriculum designers; students interested in a career in the serious games industry; and VCs and principals of investment firms.
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I’d like to wish all my friends and colleagues around the world the very best for this festive season!
A Joyful Holiday and a Playful New Year!!!!!!!!

Image credit: 14th Serious Games Showcase & Challenge @ I/ITSEC 2019
The seven categories of SGS&C winners were announced earlier today at the Awards Ceremony in the Innovation Pavilion (Booth 2288). Congrats to all for the superb quality of this year’s submissions!
Here are this year's winners:
Best Government Game - Chain of Command: Capture the Seas by Naval Information Warfare Command PMW-120
Best Business Game - Swibo Tilt by Swibo Ltd.
Best Student Game – SIGNAL by UC Berkeley and the Project on Nuclear Gaming
Best XR Game – VestAid Game Suite by Intelligent Automation, Inc.
Innovation Award – Earth-to-Mars: a VR Serious Game for Leadership by eLearning Studios
Students’ Choice Game – Get a Life by Game-Based Learning, K20 Center The University of Oklahoma
People’s Choice Game – Talon by U.S. Army PEO Aviation Utility Helicopter Project Office UH60