Mike Boyce, a non-executive director of virtual reality technology company VR Education Holdings, bought 499,942 ordinary shares in the AIM-quoted company on Monday.
Boyce, a former sales manager at Capita One Education, acquired the shares at an average cost of 16p each, for a total of £79,991.

The director's share purchase represented a total of 0.26% of VR's issued share capital.

Earlier in May, VR announced that its award-winning Apollo 11 VR educational experience had been selected to be part of the launch collection for Oculus Go, Oculus' new all-in-one VR headset.

As of 1400 BST, VR Education shares had rocketed 28.36% to 17.97p.

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