Transforming Workforce Training Through Spatial Computing

If your organization is exploring the future of workforce training, this is a session you won’t want to miss. At Augmented Enterprise Summit 2025, ForgeFX Simulations’ CEO & Co-Founder, Greg Meyers, will present:

📍 Transforming Workforce Training Through Spatial Computing

🗓️ September 24 at 12:20 PM | Landmark Ballrooms B&C

With over two decades at the forefront of immersive learning, Greg will share lessons learned from building simulation-based training solutions for some of the world’s leading organizations—ranging from the first commercial VR simulators for Komatsu, to industry-leading spatial computing-based equipment simulators for JLG Industries and Somero Enterprises, to today’s cutting-edge AR solutions for the United States Department of Defense’s Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Defense.

Attendees will gain practical insights into how organizations are using AR, VR, and XR to:

 🔸 Accelerate skills acquisition and workforce readiness

 🔸 Improve safety and reduce operational risks

 🔸 Deliver measurable ROI and long-term performance impact

👉 Sponsored by BrainXchange, explore the full agenda here: https://augmentedenterprisesummit.com/agenda/

Greg Meyers is the CEO and Co-Founder of ForgeFX Simulations, a leading developer of custom virtual and augmented reality training solutions for Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, and global enterprises. With over 20 years of experience pioneering immersive training technologies, Greg has helped transform how organizations prepare their workforces for complex, high-stakes tasks.

Under his leadership, ForgeFX has delivered simulation-based training platforms for some of the world’s most demanding industries—including mining, energy, defense, and aerospace. From building one of the first commercial VR equipment simulators for Komatsu to deploying cutting-edge AR solutions for the U.S. Department of Defense, Greg’s work has consistently pushed the boundaries of how spatial computing can accelerate skills acquisition, improve safety, and generate measurable ROI.

Greg is recognized as a thought leader in the field of immersive learning, frequently speaking at industry conferences and collaborating with enterprise partners to bring emerging technologies into practical, results-driven workforce applications. His expertise spans interactive 3D simulation, VR/AR/MR deployment strategies, and scalable enterprise training programs.

At the Augmented Enterprise Summit, Greg will share insights from two decades at the forefront of spatial computing—illustrating how immersive technologies are no longer experimental pilots but proven tools reshaping workforce development at scale.

ForgeFX Simulations to Exhibit, Sponsor, and Speak at Augmented Enterprise Summit 2025

We’re excited to share that ForgeFX Simulations is proud to be a sponsor of the 2025 Augmented Enterprise Summit (AES), taking place September 23–25 in Dallas, Texas.

Hosted by BrainXchange, AES is the premier global event for enterprise XR — bringing together innovators, practitioners, and decision-makers who are shaping the future of immersive technologies. ForgeFX Simulations is honored to be part of this year’s program.

📍 Visit ForgeFX at Booth 614 to experience how our mixed reality-based training simulators are helping enterprises transform workforce development, reduce risk, and improve performance at scale.

🎤 From an impressive list of speakers, don’t miss ForgeFX CEO & Co-Founder, Greg Meyers, presenting on September 24 at 12:20 PM: “Transforming Workforce Training Through Spatial Computing”. Greg will share how simulation-driven training is creating measurable ROI for global enterprises — and why immersive learning is quickly becoming a must-have across industries.

🔗 Discover how ForgeFX is driving workforce transformation at AES 2025: https://augmentedenterprisesummit.com/sponsors-exhibitors/2025-forgefx/

ForgeFX Simulations’ Recap: Our Unforgettable Experience at AWE USA 2025

Long Beach, CA – June 2025: What a week! As we pack up from Augmented World Expo USA 2025, we’re still buzzing with excitement from an incredible few days of innovation, connection, and inspiration. From unveiling our new immersive booth to launching cutting-edge products, giving VIP tours, and taking the stage to share our vision, AWE USA 2025 was an event we’ll never forget—and we’re thrilled to share the highlights with you.

Stepping Into the Future: Our Immersive Booth

This year, we wanted our booth to do more than showcase our technology—we wanted it to immerse visitors in the world of ForgeFX Simulations. Designed to reflect the realism and interactivity of our training simulators, the booth became a hub for hands-on experiences.

Attendees immediately felt a sense of presence and they entered, then strapping on headsets to operate virtual heavy equipment, troubleshoot machinery with AR and VR maintenance tools, and explore enterprise training environments designed for some of the world’s largest organizations.

"Your booth is one of the most engaging experiences on the show floor!" – AWE Attendees

ForgeFX Simulations, Augmented World Expo USA 2025

Sharing Our Vision: Greg Meyers on Stage

On Day 3 of AWE USA 2025, our CEO, Greg Meyers, took the stage to present the session “Built to Scale: Deploying XR Across Industrial Enterprise.” Greg shared ForgeFX’s perspective on how immersive technologies are helping enterprises scale training programs and operational tools across large, distributed workforces.

He discussed ForgeFX’s success deploying VR and AR simulators in high-stakes industries like energy and defense, showing how organizations can deliver realistic, repeatable, and risk-free training at scale.

“XR isn’t just a technology trend—it’s a business imperative for companies that need to train and enable workers faster, safer, and smarter,” Greg emphasized.

The session drew a crowd of professionals across a wide spectrum of disciplines, with many attendees staying afterward to ask questions and continue the conversation about how ForgeFX’s solutions could help their organizations achieve similar results.

Greg Meyers, ForgeFX Simulations CEO and Co-Founder, AWE USA 2025

Following our immersive showcase at AWE USA 2025, we were thrilled to witness the broader XR landscape's dynamic evolution. The event was a melting pot of innovation, with several standout companies unveiling groundbreaking technologies that are shaping the future of immersive experiences.

XR Industry Highlights at AWE USA 2025

PICO presented the PICO 4 Ultra Enterprise, an all-in-one mixed reality headset tailored for enterprise applications. Equipped with advanced MR capabilities and the PICOMotion Tracker for comprehensive body and object tracking, PICO's solution aims to deliver highly immersive and practical experiences across industries. Their booth offered hands-on demonstrations, highlighting applications in education, training, and location-based entertainment.

Swiss company CREAL captivated attendees with its latest Clarity light-field display. This technology offers a more natural and comfortable visual experience by mimicking how our eyes perceive depth in the real world. Visitors experienced this through both a headset and a tabletop pair of glasses, showcasing the versatility of CREAL's approach to immersive displays.

XREAL (formerly Nreal) showcased its One Series AR glasses, emphasizing spatial computing capabilities. They also introduced the XREAL EYE, a modular camera attachment enhancing the functionality of their AR glasses. Additionally, XREAL unveiled a new accessory, further expanding their ecosystem and demonstrating their commitment to versatile AR solutions.

AWE USA 2025 was truly a whirlwind of innovation, showcasing a plethora of groundbreaking technologies that are propelling the XR industry into the mainstream, like:

• Qualcomm unveiled its Snapdragon AR1+ Gen 1 chip, emphasizing on-device AI processing for smart glasses.
• Google introduced Android XR, a spatial computing operating system designed to unify headset and glasses development across various hardware platforms. 
• Sony impressed attendees with its enterprise-focused XYN headset, featuring a 3552×3840 resolution and precision ring controllers, catering to spatial content creators. 
• Samsung showcased its latest OLEDoS microdisplays, boasting up to 5,000 pixels per inch and brightness levels reaching 20,000 nits, setting new standards for visual clarity in XR devices. 
• Niantic demonstrated its VPS-powered AR tour guide using Snap Spectacles, aiming to create hardware-agnostic, geo-precise AR experiences . 
• bHaptics presented its TactSuit Pro and TactGloves, adding immersive haptic feedback to over 100 VR games . 
• Kopin introduced the NeuralDisplay, an innovative eye-tracking technology embedded in displays without the need for cameras, enabling foveated rendering and fatigue detection. 

With over 250 exhibitors and 5,000 attendees, AWE USA 2025 highlighted the rapid advancements in XR technology and its growing integration into various industries

ForgeFX Simulations, Augmented World Expo USA 2025

The convergence of these innovations at AWE USA 2025 underscored the XR industry's rapid advancement and the diverse approaches companies are taking to push the boundaries of immersive technology. ForgeFX Simulations is proud to be part of this vibrant community, contributing to the collective momentum driving XR into the mainstream.

Built to Scale: Deploying XR Across Industrial Enterprise

We’re proud to share that ForgeFX Simulations CEO and Co-Founder, Greg Meyers, will be speaking at this year’s Augmented World Expo in Long Beach, CA—recognized as an Enterprise Expert in the field of immersive industrial training.

Built to Scale: Deploying XR Across Industrial Enterprise: Delivering practical, hard-won lessons on what it takes to build durable, adaptable training platforms that leverage XR technologies to accelerate learning, reduce costs and remove risks from industrial-scale business worldwide.

What does it take to move from pilot projects to enterprise-scale deployment of XR training? In this session, ForgeFX Simulations CEO Greg Meyers draws on more than a decade of experience building industrial-grade simulators for global heavy equipment leaders like Caterpillar, Vermeer, and Komatsu to offer a playbook for scaling success.

Attendees of Built to Scale: Deploying XR Across Industrial Enterprise will gain real-world insights into the barriers large organizations face—such as workforce variability, equipment risk, and the challenge of standardizing training across distributed teams—and how simulation-based XR training platforms are addressing these issues at scale. From hardware integration with OEM systems to global deployments of XR applications, this talk delivers practical, hard-won lessons on what it takes to build durable, adaptable training platforms that serve diverse operators, reduce risk, and accelerate learning across job sites worldwide. Built on the Unity platform, these solutions benefit from robust XR development tools, performance optimization

ForgeFX Simulations and Somero Enterprises Honored with 2025 Concrete Contractor Top Product Award

We’re thrilled to share some exciting news: ForgeFX Simulations, in partnership with Somero Enterprises, has been awarded a 2025 Concrete Contractor Top Product Award by Concrete Contractor Magazine! This recognition underscores the transformative power of immersive technology in the construction industry and the innovative spirit driving both our teams.

Somero Enterprises Virtual Trainer Developed by ForgeFX Simulations

Pioneering Excellence in Construction Technology

The Concrete Contractor Top Product Awards honor equipment, tools, and technology that significantly advance the construction industry. Winners are selected for their innovation, practical impact, and ability to improve productivity, safety, and efficiency on the job site.

Our simulation-based training solutions developed in collaboration with Somero Enterprises exemplify these values. By harnessing the power of virtual reality (VR) and extended reality (XR), we’ve created cutting-edge training tools that allow operators to learn complex machinery in risk-free, highly realistic environments—ultimately helping construction companies enhance performance, reduce downtime, and prioritize safety.

The Power of Partnership

At the heart of this award is a strong collaboration between ForgeFX Simulations and Somero Enterprises. As a leading manufacturer of laser-guided and technologically advanced concrete leveling equipment, Somero brought deep industry expertise and a commitment to innovation to the table. Combined with our experience in simulation development, the result is a best-in-class training solution tailored to the specific needs of the concrete construction industry.

Together, we set out to solve real-world challenges—like the high cost and safety risks of training new operators—by offering immersive training modules that accelerate learning and allow for repeatable, measurable practice in virtual environments.

Why Simulation Training Matters

As the construction industry grapples with a skilled labor shortage and evolving technology demands, simulation-based training is becoming a game-changer. It provides:

• Safe environments for learning high-risk operations

• Faster onboarding and skill development for new operators

• Cost-effective training that doesn’t rely on equipment availability

• Standardized instruction for consistent knowledge transfer

Our award-winning solution does exactly this, and the recognition by Concrete Contractor Magazine reinforces the value it brings to organizations seeking to modernize and future-proof their workforce.

A Shared Victory

We’d like to extend our deepest gratitude to Concrete Contractor Magazine for this recognition, and to our dedicated partners and clients who continue to push the boundaries of what's possible in construction technology.

This award is not just a reflection of our product—it’s a celebration of the forward-thinking professionals and organizations who embrace innovation to create safer, smarter, and more efficient job sites.

🔗 View the full list of award winners here:
Concrete Contractor 2025 Top Products Award Winners

Looking Ahead

This recognition motivates us to continue investing in simulation technology that empowers users, enhances safety, and elevates performance across industries. We’re proud to be part of the movement reshaping construction training through immersive technology—and we’re just getting started.

Thank you again to everyone who helped make this achievement possible. Here’s to building a smarter, safer future—together.

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Augmented World Expo, ForgeFX Simulations, June 10-12 2025

ForgeFX Simulations is Proud to Sponsor Augmented World Expo (AWE) USA, June 10-12 2025

Augmented World Expo is the premier global event for spatial computing, taking place June 8–10 in Long Beach, California. As a leader in immersive training solutions, ForgeFX is excited to contribute to the conversation around spatial computing’s growing impact on workforce development and enterprise training. 

In addition to exhibiting a collection of immersive training simulators at booth 346 on the expo floor, we’ll be actively engaging with attendees throughout the event—our CEO, Greg Meyers, will be delivering a seminar titled How VR is Bridging the Construction Labor Gap and leading a Roundtable Session titled Scaling XR Training: Lessons from Fortune 500 Deployments, while our Executive Director of Enterprise Partnerships, Mary Pierce, will be hosting exclusive VIP tours on the show floor. We look forward to connecting with industry leaders and innovators shaping the future of spatial computing!

Come experience how we’re using immersive XR simulations to revolutionize workforce training and development across industries.

📍 Visit us at Booth 346 to see live demos, meet the team, and talk about how simulation-based training can supercharge your workforce.

💬 Come to our speaker session: How VR is Bridging the Construction Labor Gap.

🔁 Join our roundtable session: Scaling XR Training – Lessons from Fortune 500 Deployments.

Is VR the Future of Workforce Training?

 🔧 Is VR the Future of Workforce Training? We certainly think so! ForgeFX Simulations is honored to be featured in this insightful and in-depth article on Heavy Equipment Guide that explores how virtual reality is revolutionizing workforce training across industries. 

Is VR the Future of Workforce Training? ForgeFX delivers VR innovation for hands-on skill development.

🔗 Read the full article: https://www.heavyequipmentguide.ca/article/43017/is-vr-the-future-of-workforce-training

A big thank you to Meghan Barton for writing this great article, and for taking the time to speak with Kristen M. Cox and Greg Meyers at ForgeFX Simulations to learn more about the impact of VR training. We truly appreciate the opportunity to share our insights on how virtual reality is shaping the future of workforce development!

💡 Key takeaways:

✅ VR-based simulators provide safe and cost-effective training for heavy equipment operators.

✅ Companies are leveraging VR to reduce risk, increase efficiency, and enhance knowledge retention for trainees.

✅ VR training simulators—like those developed by ForgeFX Simulations—help operators build hands-on skills in a risk-free environment.

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