Red Iron Labs is a virtual reality game, content, and platform company operating in the B2B and B2C sectors.
Founded in 2016 as a game company in Calgary, we specialize in VR (virtual reality), building multiplayer experiences, simulations, and hyper realistic AAA (“Triple A”) video-game level environments across many industries.
Our development team is led by Lloyd Summers, who has 30 years of experience in software development including mobile, web, enterprise and virtual experiences. Our creative team is led by Rosalinda Hernandez, whose specialization is culture – designing our products from a critical cultural lens and examining the relationship between humxn experience and technology.
YouthLink Calgary Police Interpretive Center | 2022
This presentation app for facilitating and reinforcing security lessons to children. It includes various game and quiz modules that are tied to an online safety and cybersecurity program.
Calgary Fire Department | 2021 – 2022
Home Fire Safety is part of Calgary Fire Department’s training initiatives for youth and other members of the community learn about the safe way to address fires within the home. The platform hosts different scenarios for use on PC and virtual reality.
Fletcher Technical Community College | 2021
Labvatar is a multi-user virtual reality laboratory that enables students to collaborate with teachers and each other, and complete real-world exercises virtually.
IndigeSTEAM | 2021 – 2022
Part cultural, part technical– this curriculum teaches Indigenous youth how to create a virtual reality game. Lessons include user design and experience, Unity functions, and creating 3D models in Blender & Zbrush.
Red Iron Labs | 2022
A complex virtual reality and web simulation, designed to teach individuals about access through a virtual medical lab.
SAIT School for Digital Technology (SADT) | 2021
10-week full-time Applied Virtual Reality bootcamp. The coursework included VR tools such as Unity, Blender and ZBrush. Students applied their coursework towards developing VR simulations for their clients.
Blackfoot Language Revival Group | 2019 – 2020
Comprehensive mobile Blackfoot language application that includes video footage and audio recordings to capture elder stories, a custom Blackfoot keyboard, and language lessons.
Red Iron Labs is grateful to Elder Sheldon First Rider for helping us in our land acknowledgement.
In the spirit of reconciliation, we honour and acknowledge Mohkinstsis and the traditional Treaty 7 territory of the Blackfoot Confederacy, Siksika, Kainai and Piikani, as well as the Stoney Nakoda and Tsuut’ina Nations. We acknowledge that this territory is the home to the Metis Nation of Alberta, Region 3 within the historical Northwest Metis homeland. We are grateful for the traditional Knowledge Keepers and Elders who are still with us today and those who have gone before us. We acknowledge all Nations, Indigenous and non, who live, work and play and help us steward this land, honour and celebrate this territory.
Red Iron Labs (aka "Red Iron", aka RIL) is a small studio hustling in Alberta to make technology accessible to all.
We view technology as an extension of our community centered activism where we have the opportunity to create welcoming, inclusive, accessible spaces for all through our games, projects and VR simulations. Gaming is in our DNA and we have leveraged our skillset to apply game theory to educating and creating meaningful experiences. We believe that if you can dream it we can build it, and if we build it they will come.
Alberta has a dynamic, innovative economy that is building upon its strong resource development roots to position itself as the fastest growing Canadian tech hub. It is going through a re-birth of sorts, shedding its old identity and opening itself up to a whole new way of doing business. RIL is part of the new way of doing business.
We are mindful of our impact and in our projects, actively committed to equity in technology and economic reconciliation, and are guided by:
As we design MRDRBRS, our goal is to create a game that connects with a wide range of players. We are doing this through thoughtful
In the evolving landscape of gaming, audience engagement in gaming has become just as crucial as gameplay itself. This shift is transforming how games are
Social multiplayer for VR gaming isn’t just a feature; it’s how today’s gamers connect. From Muffin Fight to MRDRBRS, we’ve seen firsthand how multiplayer design