FAQ

It is recommended to start by learning digital art and graphic skills, then advance to digital film editing, and finally take the game development course. 

However, you can take the courses in any order as they run independently. If you enjoy art, graphics, or photo editing, the creative design and digital art course is a good start. For movie creation and editing, the digital filmmaking course is ideal. For those interested in creating 3D games, the 3D game development course is the recommended choice.

We offer courses for both under 13 and over 13 age groups. However, the choice depends on your previous experience, if any, in creating digital art, films, or 3D games. If you are a beginner, it’s advisable to start with courses in the first age group and then progress to more advanced ones in the second group. This approach ensures that you build the necessary skills step-by-step based on your current expertise.

You do not need any prior art or technical knowledge to take VRAcademi courses. If you are familiar with design or art and technology, if you are keen to make your own Virtual Reality content, or if you just wish to explore or enhance your creative skills digitally - VRAcademi is the correct place for you.

The courses are conducted in our state of art facility located in Jumeirah, Dubai, adjacent to Kings College Hospital Medical Center near to the Kite Beach

No. You will be doing this course along with a few other students in Face to Face Classes. We do not intend to run one-to-one classes unless it is specifically requested. Some of the exercises in the curriculum or group exercises actually require teamwork. The classes are conducted in small batches and there are no more than eight students in an batch.

Your tutor will get in touch with you before the classes commence and will be providing you with the class specific handouts and assets required to take part in the course. After you complete the online session, you would be given more detailed handouts and video recordings of the course. This will be useful to follow up and revise at your leisure.

At VRAcademi Ai & Metaverse lab we have policy of up to one make up class per level of the course, subsequent missing of the classes will required further explanation and documentation from the parents/Adults and due charges will be applicable for more than one make up class.

We do offer scholarships for gifted and talented students and students facing economic challenges and hardships. To discuss scholarship and grants please click on the link here and leave a relevant message.

On completion of the course you earn the equivalent CPD credits. The CPD credits prove the professional qualifications that you have earned while studying at VRAcademi. It is up to your college or school to recognise and incorporate these CPD credits towards your college or student degrees.

Yes you can. At VRAcademi, your satisfaction is our top priority. If you feel that the entire curriculum of VRAcademi is not right for you, please discuss it with the course instructor and we return you your money in proportion to any left-over classes that you not have consumed.

All of the VRAcademi courses are conducted by a combination of a technology teacher and an art teacher. Sometimes the same teacher can conduct both the art and the technology classes. VRAcademi chooses its teachers very carefully and only employs professionals after a thorough detailed background check, including necessary crime reference checks. Our teachers understand pedagogy, technology and creative design. Most of our teachers are well- renowned professionals who are using the technology for their own projects as well. Many of the teachers are also teaching in mainstream schools in the morning. Your course instructor will get in touch with you before the start of your course and introduce themselves to you.

At VRAcademi we curate the art, design, film and games produced by the students. The curated material produced by the students is displayed on the museum page of our website. This artwork is available to purchasers who may like to buy the artwork. Proceedings from any purchases go to the student and also to our 1teach 1 initiative. If you would like to purchase any of the artwork created by students, please contact us here. The VR work displayed can be shared between the students family and friends from our Museum’s page.

Upon successful completion of the course you get a certificate which mentions the number of CPD hours that you have earned. You also get to display your creative content on our museum and on the unity VR website. If you have managed to create artistic content you can also publish it on Instagram, YouTube, Unity websites.

VRAcademi museum is your window to the external world where people can come and collect art and pay you for your creative work as well. In more advanced courses as you progress along you may also develop applications in Virtual Reality and publish them on steam store and earn money directly from the store.

Virtual reality is a profession in demand. Once you learn the skills from our website you would easily be able to grab a job with big companies such as Facebook, Oculus, Microsoft, Amazon, film industry such as Disney and paramount. Large multinational management consultancies such as PWC and KPMG etc, also employ virtual reality professionals. VR professionals are engaged in a number of training and technology related trials including NASA, defence industry and the automobile industry.

You can also start your career by working at Sunovatech or at VRAcademi itself. One thing we can guarantee is that that once you complete the course you would be able to apply in this high-tech industry with confidence and be able to seek your dream profession in Virtual Reality.

Yes, all teachers enrolled in the VRAcademi are given essential teacher training. All teachers of VRAcademi have to pass through a teacher training program.

If you are thinking about entering the field of design and creative teaching? Get in touch with us today!, As we expand VRAcademi we are on the constant outlook for creative and dedicated teachers. We are looking for tutors in multiple time zones and with varied language skills. If you have knowledge of VR, AR, immersive reality application development, digital design or coding skills and if you are confident and passionate to impart knowledge whilst having the right oratory and teaching skills, do get in touch with us by clicking here. All teachers of VRAcademi have to pass through a teacher training program.

Additionally, if you have any digital and design skills and would like to conduct and teach your own creative course on our platform or develop a design curriculum for a new course do get in touch with us.

Currently we offer VRAcademi courses in English language. Some of the teachers are bilingual and are conversant in Hindi, Urdu, Arabic, Russian. While the teachers can offer the courses in their mother tongues, most of the software would be in English.

All VRAcademi classes are conducted Face to Face in Jumeirah Dubai and online in some time zones. 

If you are attending course in VRAcademi Ai & Metaverse Lab, Jumeirah Dubai, than most of the resources will be provided it the lab itself, in case of Ai, Robotics & Coding course, student will be required to bring their tablets for Foundation level and Laptops for comprehensive and Advance Levels. 

The VRAcademi courses have been created at a pace where we feel it would be appropriate for most of the students to complete the course. To understand and get a detailed grasp of the art and technology subjects that they can use to create and develop their imaginations. Of course, there may be a few fast learners. However, we encourage these talented and gifted students to explore deeper and more detailed and complex dimensions of their virtual reality creation than to complete the course faster. We have learned from experience that sometimes you can’t rush a learning process. In case you do feel that your child/student needs to be challenged further within a specific course, please do contact us so that maybe we could offer a more complex curriculum or recommend them for a more advanced course.

Yes, we do offer and take payments via tabby, please note that we charge an additional 7% on top of the course fees for payments through Tabby

Yes, we do offer a group discount. If you are planning to enrol two or more students in the courses, please contact us so that we can offer you sibling or group discount.

All VRAcademi courses have two classes per week. If a particular time slot or day does not suit you, we can offer a more flexible time slot. However, it is good to keep a rhythm and it is not advisable to change the timings of the courses drastically. Please discuss with your course instructor or contact us if you want to discuss flexibility of course timings for you or your child.

You can sponsor the gift of a course to your loved ones by registering them for a course. You can let them know that you have gifted them the course by emailing us back so that we can inform them accordingly.

If you want to donate or grant a scholarship for children with special needs or for the underprivileged children whom you may like to support, please contact us here.

VRAcademi is a fully inclusive learning academy. We cater for the specific needs for children with special needs . Virtual reality has been seen as an increasingly supportive technology for children who may have suffered PTSD, certain phobias or who may have mild autistic spectrum disorder*. In case you would like to explore the use of the VR technology in assisting and addressing mental health challenges please contact us so that we can address and specifically adapt and cater to your child’s specific needs. The advisory board consists of two highly qualified world renowned special-needs teachers who have carefully advised us in the development of the course curriculum.

*Anderson A, 2021, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and Artificial Intelligence in Special Education: A Practical Guide to Supporting Students with Learning Differences, Routledge, London.

VRAcademi started as a collaborative collateral where the founding directors saw a gap in the current education system to impart science and art knowledge to children. While technology has been used extensively in the recent past to enhance art, some technology developers and artists are unable to understand the symbiotic relationship which exists between the two subjects and how they can be used together to enhance creativity. Another focus in the recent past has been on importing the knowledge of coding to children rather than building up creativity and inquisitiveness towards understanding and discovering art.

Our CEOs personal journey started with development of VRAcademi with a strong need to do something for his own child who was undergoing chemotherapy treatment and was isolated due to COVID lockdowns. The VR technology was an essential tool that he discovered could be used to liberate and free the young minds. If experiencing VR was so great how amazing it must be to create it? What would be the impact if instead of just experiencing virtual reality, children could actually create their own content in virtual reality. These questions lead to the birth of VRAcademi.

VRAcademi classes are conducted online in small diverse groups. We do not deliver one to one sessions at the moment. Some of the activities require students to work in group sessions. The courses have been created based on children’s age group and competencies. Normally children below 13 form one category and children between the age of 13 to 18 from another category. While there is no direct role for learning based on age only, many software such as 3D studio max recommends the user to be greater than 13 years old. VR hardware manufacturers such as Oculus also recommend the user to be 13 years old or greater. Hence we have created and designed our curriculum and form groups for children less than 13 years old and greater than 13 years old.

Of course, a child with special learning needs who may be more than 13 years old can choose to do a course for children under 13 years of age. Even an adult may like to pick up a course which is for less than 13 years of age. We do not stop children or adults from selecting the type of course. However due to child protection policy of the company, students over the age of 18 years are never mixed with students less than 18 years of age. Based on your course selection you may be mixed and matched in a diverse group representing various nationalities, ethnic and cultural backgrounds.

The class groups are created based on the time zone that you have selected for a particular course. Based on your course selection you maybe be mixed and matched in a diverse group representing various nationalities, ethnic and cultural backgrounds. We have created and designed our curriculum and class groups for children less than 13 years old and greater than 13 years old. Of course a child with special learning needs who may be more than 13 years old can choose to do a course for children under13 years of age. Even an adult may like to pick up a course which is for less than 13 years of age. We do not stop children or adults from selecting the type of course. However due to child protection policy of the company, students over the age of 18 years are never mixed with students less than 18 years of age. We encourage children from various nationalities and cultural diversity is to come together and learn in VRAcademi. Learning together in a team from various backgrounds is truly one of the most amazing experiences that we aim to create at VRAcademi.

The class groups are created based on the time zone that you have selected for a particular course. Based on your course selection you maybe be mixed and matched in a diverse group representing various nationalities, ethnic and cultural backgrounds. We have created and designed our curriculum and class groups for children less than 13 years old and greater than 13 years old. Of course a child with special learning needs who may be more than 13 years old can choose to do a course for children under13 years of age. Even an adult may like to pick up a course which is for less than 13 years of age. We do not stop children or adults from selecting the type of course. However due to child protection policy of the company, students over the age of 18 years are never mixed with students less than 18 years of age. We encourage children from various nationalities and cultural diversity is to come together and learn in VRAcademi. Learning together in a team from various backgrounds is truly one of the most amazing experiences that we aim to create at VRAcademi.

The class groups are created based on the time zone that you have selected for a particular course. Based on your course selection you maybe be mixed and matched in a diverse group representing various nationalities, ethnic and cultural backgrounds. We have created and designed our curriculum and class groups for children less than 13 years old and greater than 13 years old. Of course a child with special learning needs who may be more than 13 years old can choose to do a course for children under13 years of age. Even an adult may like to pick up a course which is for less than 13 years of age. We do not stop children or adults from selecting the type of course. However due to child protection policy of the company, students over the age of 18 years are never mixed with students less than 18 years of age. We encourage children from various nationalities and cultural diversity is to come together and learn in VRAcademi. Learning together in a team from various backgrounds is truly one of the most amazing experiences that we aim to create at VRAcademi.