Camp K12 Launches Metaverse and AR/VR Creation Platform

Hatch Kids, a metaverse and AR/VR creative platform for young learners, has been launched by Camp K12, an edtech firm establishing a global online school for 21st-century skills. Hatch Kids is a free online 3D creation platform that allows kids aged 6 to 18 to design, code, and publish 3D games, Augmented Reality (AR) apps, interactive Virtual Reality (VR) environments, and Metaverse Experiences without having any prior design or coding knowledge.

Through school, government, and ed-tech partnerships, the site has expanded organically to over 1.1 million users across 150 countries in the last six months, with 75 percent of usage originating from the United States and Canada. The United Kingdom, Australia, and India are among the top geographies. To far, students have created over 3.6 million projects on the platform, both in and out of the classroom.

Speaking about Hatch's vision, Camp K12's Co-founder and CEO, Anshul Bhagi, said, "There are over 100 million kid coders out there today using a variety of free coding platforms to learn coding by building games and apps. These platforms are incredibly effective and set the stage for the kids coding movement starting in 2007, however the vast majority of them are restricted to 2D project creation, built for the age of smartphones and flat screens. As technologies like AR and VR go mainstream, we need to upgrade the tools that kids learn on and that educators teach on for modern-day use cases and content formats. We built Hatch as a kids coding platform for the age of the metaverse. We want to give 100M+ young kids their first AR/VR creation experience and the self-confidence to be builders in the inevitable Mixed Reality future rather than passive consumers of it."