5,000+ Roofers Trained in Multiplayer VR for a US Roofing Company

The problem

Roofing is learned by working next to an experienced installer and being corrected in the moment. Here the expert was in the USA and the crews were in India.

Flying trainers to crews costs airfare and weeks away from billable work, and one expert can only stand next to so many people. A new installer was taking six months or more to reach reliable competency.

What we built

• A shared virtual roof on Meta Quest 3 where the trainer and up to 10 trainees work together, live, and talk over voice chat, like a multiplayer game.
• Trainees install the roof by hand. Every shingle is measured for spacing and overlap, and installation errors are flagged on the spot.
• The trainer sees what each person is doing and corrects them on the spot, as if standing on the roof beside them.
• A dashboard records who attended and the errors on each attempt, broken down by type, and gives every trainee a level: beginner, intermediate or expert.

What happened

More than 5,000 trainees have gone through the program. Time to competency fell from six months or more to four to eight weeks.

One trainer could train up to 10 people in a single session from anywhere, and nobody had to travel: the trainer stayed in the USA and the crews stayed where they were.