About Interplay Learning
Interplay Learning, an Austin-based company founded in 2016, provides award-winning, scalable online and VR training platforms for essential skilled trades globally—including the U.S. and South Africa—enabling rapid, hands-on employee training that leads to job readiness in weeks, and has been recognized by Forbes, TIME, and other organizations for innovation and workplace excellence.
Our Mission
Better careers, better lives for the skilled trades.
Background
Since 2016, Austin-based Interplay Learning has been building better training, better careers, and better lives for our customers and their employees. Our award-winning online and VR training for the essential skilled trades is scalable and more effective than traditional training methods. By leveraging our immersive learning and career development platform, our customers are able to train and practice hands-on learning from any device or in virtual reality. The result is a highly trained employee who is job-ready in weeks, not years.
Better Careers, Better Lives Across the Globe
Skill up with the leading global provider of online and VR training for the essential skilled trades in:
- United States
- South Africa
Awards & Recognitions
- Readers' Choice Award for Facility Maintenance Decisions
- Named to Forbes' 2024 List of America's Best Startup Employers
- Winner of Innovation Awards
- 2024 Best Places to Work
News and PR
Konecranes Adopts ITI VR Crane Sim to Expand Customer Training Capacity and Reduce Equipment Downtime
Blending simulation with instructor-led training, Konecranes Training Institute delivers hands-on
May 6, 2026
Interplay Learning Named One of America’s Top EdTech Companies by TIME
The leader in immersive training for the industrial and skilled
April 29, 2026
Interplay Learning Named to Forbes’ List of America’s Best Startup Employers 2026
The leader in immersive training for the industrial and skilled
March 10, 2026
Our Experts
- Preston Witt — Facilities Maintenance & Industrial Maintenance Expert
- Tyler Curtis — HVAC Expert
Our Partners
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Join Our Team
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Company Recognition
- Named to Forbes' 2024 List of America's Best Startup Employers
- Named to Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies 2024
- Winner of Innovation Awards
- 2024 Best Places to Work
- Inc. 5000 Recognition
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Interplay Learning provides online, on-demand 3D simulation and virtual reality training for skilled trades students, offering industry-aligned courses and certifications across various trades, enabling flexible, safe practice environments, curriculum integration, progress tracking, and proven success in preparing students for workforce readiness as endorsed by educators and employers.
Interplay is Training 1M Africans by 2025 In Skilled Trades
Interplay Learning is partnering with South African non-profit Ranyaka Community Transformation to deliver world-class online and VR training in HVAC, plumbing, electrical, solar, and facilities maintenance trades, aiming to train one million South Africans by 2025 and eventually five million Africans continent-wide to close the skilled trades gap and improve economic conditions.
Interplay Learning Newsroom
Interplay Learning, a leading provider of immersive training for industrial and skilled trades, has recently been recognized by TIME and Forbes for its industry impact and financial strength, while partnering with companies like Konecranes to deliver VR crane simulation training that expands customer training capacity and reduces equipment downtime.
Virginia Technical Academy Integrates Interplay Learning's VR Simulations for Skilled Trades Training
Virginia Technical Academy has integrated Interplay Learning’s online courses and virtual reality simulations into its skilled trades curriculum to provide students with immersive, hands-on training in areas like electrical wiring, HVAC troubleshooting, and plumbing, thereby enhancing practical skills, problem-solving abilities, and overall readiness for careers in the trades.