Kai XR

Kai XR operates a digital learning platform that delivers project-based, career-connected lessons for students in grades 3-8 across math, English language arts, science, social studies and STEM/STEAM. Its core unit is the "Learning Adventure," a packaged lesson combining a mini-lesson slideshow, 360-degree virtual field trip, 3D makerspace design challenge, reading passage, vocabulary, video and audio material, short-answer prompts, multiple-choice and 3D quizzes, a collaboration mode for real-time joint 3D building, and makerspace discovery activities. Lessons are described as standards-aligned and are grouped around three skill areas: foundational computer skills, computational thinking and AI literacy; STEM topics such as 3D engineering design and applied science; and career readiness, including career awareness, real-world problem-solving and social-emotional learning.

The platform is designed to run on a range of devices, including smartphones, tablets, laptops and VR headsets, which the company positions as a way to widen access for schools with limited technology budgets. Teachers add Adventures to a dashboard, share an access code with students, and track progress through reports covering makerspace projects and quiz scores; login is supported through Clever and ClassLink. Target users include makerspace and STEM teachers, media specialists and digital learning coaches, interventionists and enrichment staff, CTE instructors, afterschool program leaders, and home educators.

The company also runs a nonprofit arm, Kai XR Futures (kaixr.org). Through that arm it produced the Storymakers Project: The Children's Crusade, a three-part student-created VR experience about Birmingham youth in the 1963 Civil Rights Movement, developed in four weeks of workshops with grade 3-7 students covering 360-degree video production, scriptwriting, filming and editing, and paired with classroom curriculum released as new Kai XR Learning Adventures.

Founding story

Founder and CEO Kai Frazier spent more than two decades in education, beginning as a teacher assistant and later teaching English language arts, U.S. history and world history at An Achievable Dream Middle and High School and Manassas Park City Schools, alongside roles at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Teaching near Washington, D.C., she found that her students lacked technology and that the school could not afford buses for field trips to free federal museums. She sold her house, car and possessions and moved to Oakland to build a virtual field trip product, learning about founding a tech company with support from the Kapor Center despite not knowing how to code at the outset.

Business model

Kai XR sells subscriptions to its learning platform, with each subscription including a library of ready-to-teach, project-based lessons. Buyers include individual teachers, schools, districts and STEM/afterschool programs, and quotes are requested through the site; a free tier gives teachers access to the first five Adventures. The company has also delivered programs funded or supported by partners and grants, and works with intermediaries such as Ed Farm on district pilots.

Subscription access to the Kai XR platform for teachers, schools and STEM programs, with a limited set of free featured Adventures used as an entry point; the company reported revenue surpassing $500,000 in 2022 versus $65,000 in 2021.

Traction

The company reports its tools being used in over 40 states and lists enterprise partners including Meta, Cox Communications and T-Mobile. Revenue grew from $65,000 in 2021 to more than $500,000 in 2022, a roughly 500% sales increase, and the company said it helped over 5,000 children through virtual learning activities in the prior year with a goal of doubling that figure. A Spring 2024 seven-week pilot with Montgomery Public Schools and Ed Farm involved 15 educators and 547 students, reporting a 90% increase in student engagement and self-directed learning, a 92.5% increase in student excitement, and 87.5% of teachers observing greater student interest. Company-reported platform metrics include 88% of classrooms reporting increased student interest and 93% rating lessons as appropriately challenging. Some schools are in their fourth year of use, and the company says it has supported Alabama students for over four years.

Latest developments

In Spring 2025 Kai XR launched the Introduction to Innovation Mixed Reality Masterminds program with Ed Farm and Alabama Power, in which students devise sustainable solutions to the coal ash problem and realize them in a virtual environment. On 26 June 2025 its Storymakers Project: The Children's Crusade — a three-part student-created VR production made with Birmingham students in grades 3-7 through the nonprofit Kai XR Futures — premiered at the Sloss Tech conference, accompanied by a student panel and hands-on VR showcase, with the films paired with classroom curriculum distributed as Kai XR Learning Adventures.