Yorkshire VR supplier to create jobs following relocation to Hull tech campus

A Yorkshire virtual reality (VR) supplier is set to create new jobs following its relocation to a Hull tech campus.

Vertual, offers a state-of-the-art training system, VERT, which is used to train radiographers and physicists in universities and teaching hospitals in more than 30 countries across the world.

The Vertual team has more than doubled over recent years and further recruitment is planned following a phased move to the new offices at developer Wykeland Group’s @TheDock tech campus in the city’s Fruit Market.

Vertual is occupying a 2,000 sq ft office suite on the second floor of the building next to the Centre for Digital Innovation (C4DI) tech hub, overlooking the Stage @TheDock amphitheatre.

Fiona Law, business manager at Vertual, said: “@TheDock was the place to be in Hull for tech businesses and the company’s move supports its future ambitions. We’d already looked at lots of locations, but this office is great and ideal for us, close to the city centre, with excellent transport links and with all the restaurants and shops in Humber Street on the doorstep too.

“We’re expanding our product range and we have lots of great projects in the pipeline. We’re increasing our head count and recruiting for new talent across the business, including more software engineers.”

Vertual was launched in Hull in 2007 by three founders as a spin-off company from a joint research project involving the University of Hull and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

Debra Leeves, CEO at Vertual, commented: “The past few years have seen rapid growth at Vertual. We have doubled the number of employees, developed and expanded our range of VR training products and expanded internationally.

“Last year was Vertual’s most successful and profitable year since the company started. Despite Covid-19 and navigating our way through new Brexit rules and paperwork, we changed our business model, which led us to think about how we would want to use our office space in the future.”

John Gouldthorp, asset manager at Wykeland, added: “We’re really pleased to welcome the Vertual team to @TheDock, where they will be very much at home among so many other tech businesses that are leaders in their fields.”

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