The organisation’s vision is to use the visually interactive nature of VR technology, rather than conventional media such as text and audio, to stimulate and educate people. VR is a tool for communicating ideas and concepts; helping visualise Africa's rich heritage; addressing the training needs of diverse communities in South Africa; and overcoming literacy barriers. The learning content that the Naledi3d Factory has created is designed to work on a personal computer (PC) and is being used in places as remote as Nakaseke village in rural Uganda.

VR technology is designed to provide education about various issues, such as health/rural hygiene, technical and artisan training, agriculture, lifeskills, and heritage. For instance, “The visual nature of our VR-based education makes it possible to simulate a wide range of health topics in a visually rich interactive way. By way of example, we are currently engaged with UNESCO on a small project around the subject of "water"; and which includes VR models to describe how to build a pit-latrine.” The project involves other teams from Sudan, Senegal, Mozambique and South Africa. In another application, the organisation created an HIV/AIDS VR training model for Ethiopian teachers which uses interactive simulations to guide teachers on how best to incorporate HIV/AIDS teaching into their broader curricula. Naledi3d Factory has also used VR for economic development purposes, such as helping South African youth find and keep employment, facilitating beekeeping in Zimbabwe, and teaching technical skills relating to turning and milling.

More specifically, VR applications include

• Interactive simulation for education
  
  It is used as communication tool to transfer knowledge and skills. VR provides a new training and communication medium that transcends traditional verbal and written forms of communication, using interactive 3D to transfer context-specific knowledge between people. It is a communication tool that provides a visual experience.
• Interactive large-scale edutainment and entertainment/i>
  Increased content in the entertainment and edutainment sector offers exciting opportunities for the development of local VR and animation content, relating local stories and events as well as bringing international models to the local market.
  This will raise awareness in the public eye of not only local tales and history, but also the richness of local heritage and culture, helping realign and readdress local history to be accurately represented.
• Interactive simulation content to support e-commerce
  The VR component of digitised content for e-commerce purposes and the creation of reality objects is becoming a niche market exhibiting good potential for growth within South Africa and globally.
• Specialist, tailor-made modelling and simulation
  
  The use of modern visualisation technologies can drastically improve the research and development cycle, resulting in shorter lead-time to market, improved product quality as well as greater customer satisfaction.