Help Launch Autistic-Owned E-Learning Startup

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Help Launch Autistic-Owned E-Learning Startup

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Are your training materials engaging and effective?
When did you hear your senior staff compliment the learned skills of new employees? When is the last time you'd heard a new employee say, "This training was so cool!"?
Data shows that an immersive 3D environment will train your employee in half the time, with 70% better recall rates.

Here is the best part: With my product "Train VR Pro", you can create a dedicated 3D learning environment quick and easy without any programming or design skills.
Just import your existing training videos and documents, and let TrainVR do its magic!

TrainVR Pro imports your training guide content into 3D worlds, reducing costs, improving memorizing of new skills, reducing training time, and enhancing promotion of your products and services.

Transform training & onboarding with cutting-edge virtual reality & desktop solutions led by your own A.I. conversational avatar.
Enhance engagement, improve retention, and provide hands-on experience with less risk in an immersive environment.

Train for real-world scenarios like never before.


Hello, my name is Kenn. I'm an autistic adult with skills in design, interactivity, programming, 3D and project planning.
I've developed a proof-of concept-working E-Learning platform that lets you create lesson plans in 3D just by writing in a simple text browser. Even more, I've added an avatar you can direct like an actor to answer questions.


With TrainVR Pro I've built the demo model, now I need to launch, market and improve it.

There's no limit to the training courses, product advertisement, business promotion or even personal resumes you can create with my TrainVR Pro (link).


Here is a playlist of my videos on Youtube showing progress:

The website: TrainVR Pro

Examples of lesson plans in TrainVR Pro

First job at a restaurant:


Introduction to construction as a career:

Working on an oil rig:

Living resumes for job searchers and recruiters:

On our TrainVR Pro account web page is a simple word processor where you write:
  • Lesson chapters
  • What the avatar will say
  • How your avatar should answer student questions
  • Links to your training videos, slide shows & web pages.

You can write write lessons that
teach safety skills at work, onboard new employees to your business by showing how to use a point of sale system or greeting customers.

Or, a teacher can build rich historical and futuristic worlds for their students. You can advertise your service, share your resume, or promote your product or event.

It all begins by entering your text and video links into a simple web-based word processor.

Benefits to Businesses and Students
  • 3D training rooms reduce costs to business by 25% to 54% depending on the number of students.
  • Learning and remembering training is up to 40% faster because learning in 3D is more like learning in real life.
  • Risk of injury may be reduced when teaching safety skills in a virtual world.
  • Students can proceed at their own pace.
  • Organizers & situation commanders can create more scenarios with less complexity arranging travel and accommodations.

Why your funding is important
To develop more templates, pay for online servers, and add more features like generating worlds, your fundraising support is needed.

I've decided to start here with you, because barriers to traditional fundraising, and even employment, are very high for autistic adults no matter our skills and experience. 84% of autistic people do not have sufficient employment. Our lives are shorter and it's much more difficult to succeed at interviews or advance at work, because there isn't room for our needs so we can contribute our skills. Yet we tend to be educated, have skills and knowledge, and act out of love and moral choices.

Experience and qualifications
My own professional experience includes creating 3D worlds since 2020, and before that, I worked for ten years making iOS mobile apps and games. My first project SteamPunk Hockey reached Top Ten worldwide in the Family/Free category. I've built demonstration worlds that integrate predictive ecological models and explore biodiversity. My hobbies are photography and music.

SteamPunk Hockey (iPad, 2013):


hundo x Ruby Room Career Fair virtual room (2022):


Visualization Emergency Management Walkthrough (2025):



Here is my personal web site that describes my professional activity: Xyris XR (link)

I've taken community business courses in Canada through the YMCA and online out of Europe.
Fundraising is my barrier now that I need your help with.

What will your funds be used for?
1. Firstly, given the world's economic situation, your gift will keep my rental in place during my business launch.

2. Secondly, server time for lessons online will be pre-paid at $1k. These pre-paid funds pay for streaming time which is typically a set charge of $1.67 per day and a metered rate charge of $0.47 per minute per viewer for our current sample projects.

3. Thirdly, we will clear $2k of debt.

4. Fourthly, depending on your contributions, we will then further develop TrainVR Pro :
  • Update our word processor web page with more text options like avatar voices, formatted text, and special instructions for the 3D world.
  • Create more templates for 3D training in Emergency Services, Firefighting, Construction, Medical Training, and Trades.
  • Design more avatar styles with a range of ethnicities and clothing to represent you.
  • Improve the user accounts, payments and permissions side of the service so we can scale up this business.

5. Lastly, we will incorporate and hire an accounting service to manage the financial side.

Why is this important to me?
On a practical level, your support safeguards my shelter, food, and lets me start to open doors to build my business. Self-employment is often a good match for autistic adults. Other people are succeeding in 3D training, and so can I as demonstrated by my past client projects.

This industry generates billions each year, I've taught classes to adults in real life, and I've built this MVP (minimum viable product) to make TrainVR Pro a real service.

On a more personal level, if I - an autistic person - can succeed with this, other autistic adults can too.

My advocacy for autistic talent with my colleagues under the banner of the The LOET League of Extraordinary Talent can also benefit with the success of my Train VR Pro service.
If my business succeeds, we can also start funding the LOET to change the unemployment & early mortality statistics of my neurotype across all occupations, languages and ethnicities.



Thank you for your time and consideration. I hope you'll join me in building this platform into a business and showing that autistic adults can succeed too.


Yours Sincerely,

Kenneth Mayfield

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