VRAI: ‘We have seen great opportunities in the UK. The decision to open an office there became a no-brainer’
Pat O’Connor and Niall Campion
Thu, 17 Dec, 2020 - 09:00
It’s often been said that successful businesses look for the opportunities in every situation but undoubtedly the challenges thrown up in 2020 have tested this theory to the max.
Irish company VRAI, which provides data-driven virtual reality training for “risky, remote & rare” industries, decided to face the challenges head-on, and subsequently discovered that both Covid-19 and Brexit gave them the opportunity to advance their business plans and grow.
“When Covid hit, the general advice was to hunker down, but we had a different idea, and that was to look at the opportunities and how our technologies could help the situation,” explains co-founder Pat O’Connor. “Our opportunity was in training. Zoom is great for a meeting or a workshop but try training someone for an offshore wind turbine throug