Sentari builds mixed-reality training that turns any room into a rehearsal space, purpose-built for the tactics, techniques, and procedures that are too costly, dangerous, or complex for maximum reps. Built by operators, on the hardware that people already trust.
U.S. Naval Academy computer scientist and active-duty naval officer.
Mayo Clinic–trained anesthesiologist and high-stakes medical simulation expert.
Naval Academy aerospace engineer with an MBA and a defense background.
Sentari was born from a shared frustration with how we prepare people for the moments that matter most. In high-stakes fields (the military, medicine, and industry) training is expensive, logistically heavy, and often unsafe. Travel, live-range fees, equipment wear, and scheduling add up fast, and the scenarios that matter most are frequently too dangerous, too rare, or too costly to rehearse the way you actually need to.
Forrest Hansen, a U.S. Naval Academy computer science graduate and active-duty naval officer with dual master's degrees in Applied Design for Innovation and Space Systems Operations, saw the real bottleneck clearly: it was never the software, it was the hardware. Immersive training had been tethered to costly headsets, dedicated facilities, and cables. When Meta released the Quest 3, that changed overnight: full-color passthrough mixed reality, untethered, affordable, and accessible enough to turn any room into a high-fidelity training environment.
Daniel Hansen, a board-certified physician anesthesiologist trained at the Mayo Clinic, had seen firsthand how decisive hands-on practice is in medicine, and how limited, costly, and hard to scale traditional methods can be. Manikins and simulation centers only go so far. Mixed reality offered something new: realistic, repeatable reps for the high-stakes, low-frequency emergencies teams rarely get to rehearse.
Rafael Alpizar, a fellow U.S. Naval Academy graduate with a degree in Aerospace Engineering and an MBA from William & Mary, came from the world of defense consulting, where he saw the same pattern across operational and industrial settings: critical procedures that are dangerous, expensive, or impractical to practice for real. He saw immersive training as the way to close that gap at scale.
Together, they launched Sentari VR Systems to fuse the physical and digital into a single training environment, built by operators, on the hardware that people already trust. The mission is simple: mixed-reality training that is safer, cheaper, more accessible, and endlessly repeatable, so every team is sharper the moment it counts for real.
Every module starts with the question: why virtual? VR must offer clear advantages: better safety, lower cost, or deeper learning.
MR bridges the real and the virtual, delivering spatial awareness and intuitive interaction for users and instructors alike.
Standalone headsets. No servers, no cables, no custom rooms. Maximum training impact with the simplest possible setup.
AI accelerates our build pipeline, cutting the time and cost to create each custom module — so tailored training stays fast and affordable.