zSpace (NASDAQ: ZSPC) announced on February 3, 2026 that zSpace Career Explorer™ Powered by Career Coach AI™ received Tech & Learning’s Best of 2025 Award of Excellence in the Primary Education category. The award recognizes the platform’s immersive, headset-free AR/VR approach, AI-driven career coaching, grade 5–12 focus, and classroom reporting tools that support equity, workforce readiness, and measurable student outcomes.
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- Tech & Learning Best of 2025 Award of Excellence in Primary Education
- Designed for grades 5–12 to deliver career exploration
- Headset-free AR/VR laptops remove headset cost, complexity, and safety concerns
- Includes Career Coach AI for personalized, on-demand guidance and transcript export
- Built-in engagement metrics and reporting enable data-driven counselor and educator use
Target grade range
Grades 5–12
Students served by zSpace Career Explorer
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ZSPC gained 5.18% while key peers were mixed: TACT -4.62%, EBON -1.35%, SCKT -4.03%, KTCC +1.40%, BTCT 0%. Momentum scanner only flagged AGMH +10.71%, suggesting this move was stock-specific rather than a broad sector rotation.
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Launch of patented zStylus One with embedded sensors and AI features. |
| Nov 06 |
AI laptop rollout |
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Global launch of AI-enabled Inspire 2 AR/VR laptop at GESS Dubai. |
| Nov 05 |
AI deployment deal |
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District-wide deployment bringing AI-powered career exploration to 12,000 students. |
| Aug 19 |
AI assistant launch |
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Launch of zKnow AI assistant targeting immersive learning market. |
| Jan 29 |
AI award win |
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Career Readiness Solution powered by Career Coach AI wins major award. |
AI-related announcements have produced mixed reactions, with more instances of divergence than alignment between positive product/news flow and the next-day share move.
Recent AI-tagged news for ZSPC includes launches of AI-enhanced hardware (zStylus One) and laptops, district-wide deployments featuring Career Coach AI, and multiple industry awards for its AI-powered career readiness solutions. These events often highlighted expansion into new markets and broader language support. Share reactions have ranged from mid-teens gains to mid-teens losses, indicating that positive AI and award news has not translated into consistently positive price follow-through.
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AI-tagged releases, often highlighting Career Coach AI and new devices, have historically driven single- to mid‑teen percentage moves, both up and down. Today’s award news for Career Explorer fits this pattern of notable but volatile reactions to AI-focused education updates.
AI has increasingly underpinned zSpace’s portfolio, from district-wide Career Coach AI deployments to AI-enabled laptops, stylus hardware, and now award-winning Career Explorer guidance tools, showing a steady build-out of an integrated AI education ecosystem.
This announcement highlights further third‑party validation of zSpace’s AI-powered Career Explorer platform for grades 5–12, reinforcing its focus on immersive, headset-free AR/VR career exploration. Historically, AI-tagged awards and launches have produced volatile but inconsistent price reactions. Investors may track how such recognition converts into deployments and revenue against a backdrop of noted liquidity concerns, amended convertible note terms, and recent preferred stock financing activity disclosed in SEC filings.
augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR)
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“a leading provider of augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) solutions for education”
Augmented reality overlays digital information—images, text or graphics—onto your view of the real world, while virtual reality creates a fully digital, immersive environment you enter with a headset. Investors care because these technologies open new ways to sell products, services and advertising, create demand for hardware and software, and can reshape industries much like adding new rooms to a building creates more rentable space and revenue opportunities.
headset-free AR/VR
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“Delivered exclusively on zSpace’s headset-free AR/VR laptops, the solution removes”
Headset-free AR/VR describes augmented or virtual reality experiences delivered without wearable headsets, using technologies like projection, special glass-free screens, or room-based displays so users see digital content overlaid on the real world as if it were physically present. Investors care because removing bulky headsets can make immersive tech easier to adopt, expand the potential customer base, lower hardware friction, and open new markets for software, advertising, and location-based services.
AI-powered
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“zSpace Career Coach™, an AI-powered, in-application assistant that provides”
“AI-powered” describes technology that uses artificial intelligence to perform tasks, make decisions, or analyze information automatically. It’s similar to having a highly skilled assistant that can learn from data, recognize patterns, and improve over time, helping to make processes faster and more accurate. For investors, this means better insights and more efficient operations, potentially leading to smarter investment choices.
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SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 03, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — zSpace, Inc. (NASDAQ: ZSPC), a leading provider of augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) solutions for education, today announced that zSpace Career Explorer™ Powered by Career Coach AI™ has been named a recipient of Tech & Learning’s Best of 2025 Award of Excellence in the Primary Education category.
The Tech & Learning Best of Awards recognize educational technology solutions that demonstrate exceptional innovation, usability, and impact in supporting teaching and learning. This honor highlights zSpace Career Explorer’s ability to engage upper-elementary through high school students in meaningful, hands-on career exploration while helping districts advance equity, workforce readiness, and measurable student outcomes.
Designed for students in grades 5–12, zSpace Career Explorer™ enables learners to experience high-demand careers through immersive, real-world simulations—moving beyond traditional career talks or static content. Delivered exclusively on zSpace’s headset-free AR/VR laptops, the solution removes the cost, complexity, and safety concerns associated with traditional VR headsets, making immersive career exploration accessible and scalable for classrooms.
Within realistic, community-based environments, students complete interactive tasks aligned to skilled trades, technical, and emerging fields, including welding, vehicle maintenance, robotic programming, carpentry, commercial refrigeration repair, and medical technology. Each experience is paired with dynamic career profiles that outline daily responsibilities, required skills, salary ranges, and education or training pathways—helping students connect classroom learning to real-world opportunities.
Tech & Learning judges praised the platform’s immersive approach and inclusive design, noting:
“zSpace Career Explorer with Career Coach AI is an amazing solution that will help students chart their paths to the future. I particularly like the 3D aspect of performing hands-on, career-oriented tasks. The platform also offers life skills programs for neurodiverse students.”
Career Explorer is enhanced by zSpace Career Coach™, an AI-powered, in-application assistant that provides personalized, on-demand career guidance. Students can ask questions, explore related career pathways based on their interests, and export conversation transcripts for reflection or counselor review—supporting alignment with American School Counselor Association (ASCA) standards and the National Career Development Guidelines.
In 2025, districts implementing zSpace Career Explorer™ reported increased student engagement and participation in career-focused learning, particularly among students who had not previously seen themselves represented in traditional college-bound pathways. Educators and counselors also cited the platform’s built-in engagement metrics and reporting tools as key benefits, enabling them to efficiently measure student interaction, document growth in career awareness, and support data-driven decision-making without increasing administrative workload.
“Being recognized by Tech & Learning validates the impact we’re seeing in classrooms nationwide,” said Paul Kellenberger, CEO at zSpace. “Career Explorer empowers students to explore what’s possible for their futures while giving educators the tools to support equity, engagement, and early career readiness.”
By combining immersive, headset-free AR/VR technology with experiential learning and AI-driven personalization on a single, purpose-built platform, zSpace Career Explorer™ exemplifies the innovation and effectiveness recognized by Tech & Learning’s Best of 2025 Awards of Excellence.
To learn more about zSpace Career Explorer™ Powered by Career Coach AI™, visit:
https://zspace.com/edu/info/career-explorer
About zSpace zSpace, Inc. (NASDAQ: ZSPC) delivers innovative augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) experiences that drive achievement in STEM, CTE, and career readiness programs. Trusted by over 3,500 school districts, technical centers, community colleges, and universities, zSpace enables hands-on “learning by doing” experiences proven to improve engagement and student outcomes. Headquartered in San Jose, California, zSpace holds more than 80 patents, with research published in the Journal of Computer Assisted Learning (2021) validating the impact of 3D virtual reality technologies on student knowledge gains.
Press Contact:
Amanda Austin
Senior Marketing Director, zSpace, Inc.
press@zspace.com
Investor Relations Contact:
Gateway Group Cody Slach, Greg Robles
949.574.3860
ZSPC@gateway-grp.com
A photo accompanying this announcement is available at https://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/dfc65222-e037-4fd7-a9d7-b3532ef34f9e
FAQ
What award did zSpace (ZSPC) receive on February 3, 2026?
zSpace received the Tech & Learning Best of 2025 Award of Excellence in Primary Education. According to the company, the award recognizes innovation, usability, and impact for its Career Explorer platform in classrooms.
How does zSpace Career Explorer (ZSPC) deliver immersive career exploration for grades 5–12?
It uses headset-free AR/VR laptops to provide hands-on, community-based simulations of high-demand careers. According to the company, simulations include trades and technical fields with paired career profiles and pathway information.
What role does Career Coach AI play in zSpace Career Explorer (ZSPC)?
Career Coach AI provides an in-application, personalized assistant offering on-demand guidance and exported transcripts. According to the company, it supports student reflection, counselor review, and alignment with ASCA and career guidelines.
How does zSpace Career Explorer (ZSPC) support educators and counselors?
The platform offers built-in engagement metrics and reporting tools to measure student interaction and career awareness growth. According to the company, these features enable data-driven decisions without increasing administrative workload.
Which career areas are included in zSpace Career Explorer (ZSPC) simulations?
Simulations cover skilled trades, technical, and emerging fields like welding, vehicle maintenance, robotics, carpentry, refrigeration, and medical technology. According to the company, each experience links to skills, salary ranges, and training pathways.