California-based virtual reality company EON Reality has announced the inauguration of a new school in North Texas that is dedicated to training and educating a “digital content workforce” in the creation of virtual and augmented reality media. The Duncanville Entrepreneur School is the result of a partnership between EON Reality and the City of Duncanville, a small suburb located just outside Dallas, Texas.

While a little known Dallas suburb may seem like a strange choice for a VR school, the area has several features that make it an excellent location. For example, Dallas is home to one of Oculus VR’s offices, which is one of the primary leaders of the current VR movement as the creator of both Samsung Gear VR and Oculus Rift.

The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is one of the largest and fastest growing urban centers in the country, with several schools that boast highly regarded technology programs, such as the University of Texas at Dallas.

There are also numerous other technology companies headquartered in Dallas, including a few well known video game studios such as Id Software, which had been co-founded by Oculus CTO John Carmack, and Gearbox Software LLC, the developer behind the popular Borderlands franchise.

ExxonMobil, which recently co-developed its Immersive 3D Operator Training Simulator technology with EON Reality, is also located in the Dallas area.

The VR curriculum

EON Reality’s new school will teach numerous aspects of VR and AR creation, including coding, 3D modeling, animation, design and development. While many VR programs focus on gaming or other multimedia uses for the technology, the Duncanville Entrepreneur School will also focus on use cases for other industries such as education, energy, transportation, medical, and sports.

“This is an exciting opportunity for Duncanville,” Mayor David Green told the Dallas Morning News. “They have facilities in England, Singapore, Dubai and Russia, but we are very fortunate to be able to be the first school in the United States.”

Green added, “You can see exactly what some of the [VR and AR] systems look like, and we can reach out to these clients in the industry, education and entertainment fields and bring them here and show them exactly what we are talking about.”

The Duncanville Entrepreneur School will offer a year long program for a class of up to 30 students.

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