Virtual Hangar™ – XR Aircraft Maintenance & Training

Extended reality training environment delivering scalable, high‑fidelity aircraft procedures training across the USAF.​

Overview

Project Overview

Virtual Hangar™ is an XR training solution used to deliver high‑fidelity aircraft maintenance and procedures training at scale for the U.S. Air Force and other aviation customers. It provides students and instructors with access to multiple virtual aircraft and interactive scenarios inside a shared VR environment, significantly reducing reliance on physical aircraft and traditional classroom time.​

Built on Mass Virtual’s XR platform and proprietary tools, the system is designed for real‑world enterprise deployment, supporting thousands of learners annually while maintaining high performance, usability, and training fidelity.​

My role

Technical Level Designer III – Mass Virtual

  • Role: Senior Technical Level Designer

  • Studio: Mass Virtual, Orlando, FL

  • Timeframe: Aug 2023 – Jan 2026

  • Engine & tools: Unity with proprietary internal toolset for XR content authoring and scenario creation

Key responsibilities

  • Designed and implemented interactive learning modules and XR scenarios in Unity using Mass Virtual’s proprietary toolset, focusing on clear step‑by‑step aircraft training flows.

  • Collaborated with subject matter experts, engineers, and artists to translate complex maintenance tasks into intuitive, repeatable VR training sequences.

  • Authored and iterated interaction logic, user guidance, and feedback to ensure learners could safely practice independently in VR.

  • Organized and supported user testing sessions with instructors and students, capturing feedback to refine scenario structure, timing, and clarity.

  • Worked with the MassXR platform team to ensure Virtual Hangar™ content integrated smoothly with user management, analytics, and reporting systems.​

Design & technical contributions

  • Built and iterated on hangar layouts and interaction hotspots to support simultaneous training sessions across multiple virtual aircraft.​

  • Helped define interaction patterns and best practices for complex cockpit and maintenance procedures, ensuring consistency across aircraft types and training scenarios.

  • Contributed to optimization and usability improvements within Unity and the proprietary tools to keep performance stable while supporting high-fidelity assets and many concurrent users.​

  • Collaborated with instructors to align scenario difficulty, guidance, and assessment with real training syllabi and learning objectives.

Impact & outcomes

As part of the Virtual Hangar™ team, contributed to a product that:

  • Reduced combined lost training hours by about 70% and classroom hours by roughly 55% for certain instructor teams.​

  • Helped cut aircraft usage for training by about 45%, contributing to multi‑million‑dollar annual cost savings.​

  • Achieved around 90% positive approval rating from students and instructors across hundreds of surveys.​