Now building Skill Reality

I’m Lorne Fade. I build companies where immersive tech, AI and growth meet.

Founder and CEO of Skill Reality. Co‑Founder and COO of VR Vision since 2016. Founder of Fade Digital.

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01Story

20+ years. Three companies. One restart.

Portrait of Lorne Fade.
Lorne Fade · Toronto
  1. Age 11

    First computer.

    My mother bought it. I grew up in Toronto and spent most of my time on that machine.

  2. University

    Computer Science.

    I studied it formally at York University. The tinkering became a trade.

  3. 2004

    Founded Academic Ads.

    Digital marketing in the early days of online advertising. I scaled it to millions in revenue.

  4. 2014

    The partnership ended.

    I sold the business and started again from zero.

  5. “Failure is tuition.
    The trick is never paying twice.”
  6. 2016

    Co-founded VR Vision.

    Enterprise VR and XR training for energy, utilities, manufacturing and automotive. I run operations as COO.

    Lorne Fade at his desk trying on an Oculus Quest 2 headset, with headset boxes in front of him.
  7. 2024

    Founded Fade Digital.

    An AI-native marketing agency that helps brands get found in traditional and AI-powered search.

  8. Now

    Launched Skill Reality.

    AI-guided performance support on wearables like Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses, for frontline industrial workers.

02Proof

What I can put a number on.

Years building companies, from Academic Ads to Skill Reality.
Technicians trained on VR Vision programs.Via VR Vision
Enterprise VR training deployments.Via VR Vision
VR Vision clients
  • Toyota
  • Siemens
  • Coca-Cola
  • Hydro One
  • Enel
03What I believe

Technology is most valuable when it changes what people can actually do.

  • VR gives people a place to practice.

    VR Vision

  • AI gives them guidance when they’re doing the real work.

    Skill Reality

  • Discovery helps the right people find what you’ve built.

    Fade Digital

That’s the thread running through my companies.

04Companies

What I’m building.

Skill Reality is my current focus. VR Vision and Fade Digital have their own teams.

Skill Reality A worker’s first-person view through display glasses, with Skill Reality’s step-by-step guidance over the task.

The focus.Founder and CEO, since May 2026.

Skill Reality

AI-guided performance support on wearables like Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses, for frontline industrial workers.

It sees the task, walks the worker through it and confirms the skill on the job.

Today
Working prototype on Meta Ray-Ban Display, running a 22-step guided procedure
Next
Paid design-partner pilots in Q4 2026; commercial launch with on-the-job skill confirmation in 2027
Status
Raising a $2M seed. Ask for the deck
skillreality.com

Skill Reality builds on ten years of VR Vision’s enterprise training. The deployments and clients on this page are VR Vision’s; Skill Reality’s own track record starts with its pilots.

VR Vision A VR Vision fall-protection training scenario: a trainee avatar in a harness and hard hat beside a bench of safety gear. Watch the demo reel

Co-Founder and COO, since 2016.

VR Vision

Enterprise VR and XR training for energy, utilities, manufacturing and automotive, co-founded with Roni Cerga.

Sectors
Energy, utilities, manufacturing, automotive
vrvisiongroup.com
Fade Digital

Founder, since 2024.

Fade Digital

An AI-native marketing agency helping brands become discoverable in traditional and AI-powered search.

Focus
GEO and SEO
fadedigital.ca

The phone is the animated hero from fadedigital.ca. Illustrative example, not a live AI result.

05Press
As featured in
  • Forbes
  • Inc.
  • The Globe and Mail
  • Halldale

Writing and press.

Writing, by Lorne Fade
Speaking, hosted by Lorne Fade
Coverage, about VR Vision
06Contact

Want to talk?

Send me a note. I read every message personally. If it’s about VR Vision, Fade Digital or Skill Reality, say which.