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How To Host Unity WebGL Builds On LMS With xAPI Tracking
In this guide, we’ll walk you through the process of hosting a Unity WebGL game on an Learning Management System (LMS) with xAPI tracking. LMS platforms like SCORM Cloud are popular for delivering and tracking online learning content. By integrating xAPI (Experience API)—a modern learning technology standard—into your Unity project, you can track detailed learner [...]
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Moments Of Delight – Using Animation To Personalise Corporate Messages
The engagement problem with corporate communications? Sliced Bread Animation creates, amongst a number of other competencies, animated explainer videos for corporate communications. For these, we’ve followed a lot of scripts that were supplied by either the clients themselves, or in cooperation with a PR or strategy agencies (who provide usually provide consultancy on the psychology [...]
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Revolutionise Construction Onboarding With VR And AR For Improved Safety And Efficiency
Before your new employees clock in for their first day on the job, you need to prepare them with a thorough onboarding process. In the construction industry, this means getting new hires up to speed on everything from safety procedures to the specifics of their roles. Construction is an inherently risky field where even a [...]
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The 5 Key Benefits of Adaptive Learning and Scenario Training
Back in the 1980s, role-playing gamebooks were all the rage. The ever-popular “Choose Your Own Adventure” book series spawned a whopping 184 entries, while the “Fighting Fantasy” series by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone lasted for 59 books. Fast forward four decades, and the same theory used in those gamebooks — adaptive learning — has [...]
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The Power Of The Animated Explainer Video: Why 80% Of People Learn Best Through Visuals
If you want people to comprehend and accurately recall information, the best option is usually to use visuals to illustrate your point. And, yes, we’re well aware of the irony in communicating this concept using a text-based blog post! Visual storytelling — used in our bespoke animated explainer videos and other forms of visual media [...]
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Level-Up Employee Learning With Gamification
Today’s workforce often lacks the time for complex, time-consuming training sessions. After all, by the time employees catch up on email, read the company newsletter, converse with colleagues on Slack, and participate in a few Microsoft Teams or Zoom calls, it’s more or less time to call it a day. How do businesses find time [...]
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Valuable Insights From A Successful Storytelling Workshop
In the heart of London, where the business ecosystem is as diverse and competitive as ever, standing out requires more than just innovation - it requires a compelling story. Imagine explaining your business at a high-stakes meeting. You have only a couple of minutes to convey the essence of what you do. You stick to [...]
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Enhancing Healthcare With Medical Animation & VR: From Drug Mechanisms to Surgical Training
Medical animation can serve several important purposes in the healthcare field. It can show how a drug functions inside the body, what happens during surgery or an imaging study, how diseases form, and how to perform self-care after surgery. Using medical animation provides some crucial benefits, including demonstrating pharmaceutical efficacy and explaining potentially gruesome procedures [...]
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Viola’s Room: An Immersive Sensory Journey by Punchdrunk
Immersing in New Realities Imagine stepping into a world where the boundaries between truth and fantasy blur, where every sight, sound and sensation is meticulously crafted to immerse you in a new reality. What was previously confined to your imagination transforms into a tangible world. These cutting-edge adventures are not only changing how we entertain [...]
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Standing Out From The Crowd: Using Characters in Corporate Communications
Corporate communications — whether internal or external — can be difficult to master, as your messaging needs to resonate with a variety of audiences. Employees and clients alike can struggle to relate to messaging that’s overloaded with statistics or jargon. That’s where the usage of characters comes in, providing a bridge for smoother corporate comms. [...]
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How to Develop E-Learning Content That Captivates and Educates With Gamification
One can attribute the popularity of e-learning to several key factors. Online learning is highly flexible regarding timing and location, and it’s accessible and affordable for a wide variety of learners. In fact, more than 75% of students say that e-learning has made them more interested in their studies. That said, the lack of in-person [...]
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How VR Training Can Save Your Organisation Time and Money
A common misconception regarding virtual reality (VR) training for businesses is that it’s too expensive to generate a positive return on investment (ROI). The truth is that — while VR training does have somewhat higher upfront costs than traditional methods — the relatively low ongoing costs often make it an excellent investment. Therefore, the real [...]
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Has The Power Of The Whiteboard Animation Gone? Or Does It Remain The Ultimate Tool For Corporate Communication?
If you're considering whiteboard animation for your corporate communication campaigns, it's natural to wonder about its effectiveness in today's media landscape. While it's true that whiteboard animations might not have the same flashy appeal as some other types like 3D animation or animated AR or VR experiences, it is still an highly effective communication tool [...]
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How Immersive VR Enhances Learning And Memory Retention
Virtual Reality (VR) is a powerful tool in education, revolutionising the way we learn and retain information. By immersing users in realistic and interactive environments, VR offers unparalleled opportunities and a unique learning experience that engages multiple senses and enhances learning and memory retention. From STEM education to medical training and cultural exploration, VR has [...]
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Create Exciting Leadership Training Programs With An Immersive AR App
In today's fast-paced and ever-evolving business landscape, effective leadership is more crucial than ever. Leadership training programs play a vital role in developing the skills and competencies of current and future leaders. One of the latest advancements in training technology, Augmented Reality (AR), has revolutionised the way leadership training is delivered. By incorporating AR apps [...]
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Bringing Metahumans To Life An R&D Project: AI And Unreal Engine Transform Game NPCs
The objective of the project was to make Unreal Engine's Metahuman characters respond and act using AI, including language models. This would create AI-driven non-player characters (NPCs) in games or characters in 3D applications, including augmented and virtual reality, who can offer new interactions each time they're spoken to. These characters were equipped with specific [...]
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Animation – A Powerful And Effective Tool For The Medical Industry
Animation is not just for entertainment; it is a powerful tool in the medical industry. From patient education to surgical simulations, medical animations are revolutionising the way healthcare professionals communicate, educate, and innovate. In the current climate, animation and VR simulations could help healthcare providers to minimise the risk of malpractice. A 2021 study, found [...]
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How Haptic Glove Feedback is Transforming VR Training and Experiential Learning
Training Using Haptic Gloves Feedback In Realtime Training using haptic gloves feedback in real-time is transforming the way businesses learn, train, and interact with their employees. The combination of virtual reality (VR) simulations and haptic technology enhances the immersive experience and is revolutionising the way we learn in virtual environments. This innovative technology combines the [...]
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Safety Training Reimagined: The Impact Of VR And AR On Workplace Education
Health and safety training is a critical aspect of workplace education. Ensuring that employees are aware of potential hazards and equipped with the knowledge to mitigate risks is possible to do these days using immersive technology. With the advancement of virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR), health and safety training has entered a new [...]
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Increase Engagement: Elevate Your E-Learning With Effective, AI-Driven Gamification
Personalised Training With AI: The use of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to tailor training programs has allowed trainees to personalise employee training programs. As e-learning technologies and applications evolve, AI-powered training models are becoming increasingly learner-centric. Personalised training with AI is expected to revolutionise employee training initiatives in corporate settings. Machine learning in gamified systems [...]
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Accessible E-learning: Ensuring Inclusivity in Your Training Programs
Accessibility is important - everyone deserves to feel included in a workplace, regardless of any physical or mental differences with their colleagues. However historically only the most able are considered. So how can we change for the better? And how can e-learning perform a key role? Ensuring your workplace is inclusive and making your employees [...]
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Empower Your People With An Engaging AR Corporate Training Game Powered By AI
Have you been stuck in team building that feels not only forced, but uninspiring? How about a multiplayer AR corporate training game powered by AI? Or are you a manager who’s tired of seeing their team turn glassy-eyed and fatigued during leadership training. Well, it's time to introduce Riley, the main character in our groundbreaking [...]
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Types of Gamification to Drive Results in Your Workplace
Gamification is synonymous with e-learning and offers plenty of benefits to the table. But how can businesses practically apply the features that game mechanics offer to ensure you reap the rewards? In this article, we’re going to walk you through how gamification enhances e-learning platforms and how to choose game mechanics that will improve your [...]
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Confused About Gamification? You Might Already be Using it.
Gamification is fast becoming the golden egg for enhancing productivity and collaboration in the workplace. You may already be using it in your office. But what does the term ‘gamification’ actually mean and how can you apply game mechanics in your company? What does ‘gamification’ mean? The term "gamification" was coined in 2002 by Nick [...]
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Immersive Technology – The Value of Using AR + VR at Live Events
Live events can be tiring. Long days soon become a blur and you come into contact with so many people you don’t remember who you spoke to and who you said what to. In addition, you have all the pre-event preparation and the post-event administration to take care of. And you're never sure whether you [...]
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How to Optimise Virtual Reality Training
We’ve written about VR training and its benefits on a number of occasions. Whilst we undoubtedly love what virtual reality brings to the training room table, it can be easy to lose sight of the purpose a VR training program should aim for. So in this article, we’re going to switch focus towards optimising VR [...]
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The Long Term Benefits of Animated Explainer Videos
Here at Sliced Bread we’ve gone over the benefits of explainer animations many times, posting deep dives about the cost benefits, the engagement and emotional benefits extensively. However we’ve only ever touched upon the long term benefits of creating animated explainer videos in other blog posts. This blog post will look deeper into the longevity [...]
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How We Use Unity to Create Gamified Training and Interactive E-learning
Are you curious about virtual reality training and its applications to the workplace? Is it also slightly daunting trying to look into interactive learning when it can seem like such a huge leap from even the digital e-learning you’re used to? Here at Sliced Bread Animation we’re experts in making immersive communications, from VR Culinary [...]
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E-Learning in Education: The Origins of Gamification in Learning
E-learning and gamification are growing in popularity. With a generation of workers raised using gamification and interactivity in school classrooms, it makes sense for the trend to sweep into the corporate world. E-learning, or online learning, uses digital tools as a teaching platform. Today students largely consume educational content on computers, tablets and smartphones. And [...]
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Learning by Doing: Why Is Retention The Goal In E-learning and Training Courses?
Retention is a key factor to consider when creating e-learning and training courses. But what does retention mean, and why is retention so important? What is retention? The Cambridge English dictionary defines retention as: “The continued use, existence, or possession of something or someone”. When you apply this definition to e-learning and training, retention essentially [...]
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How Gantt Charts Optimise The Production Process
When it comes to project managing, Gantt charts form the backbone of our production process. On the surface it's easy to assume a Gantt chart is just a way to visualise a schedule. However, some of you may not even know what a Gantt chart is. So let's look at what Gantt charts are, why [...]
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Redefining Learning: The Rise of Virtual Reality Training in the Workplace
Virtual reality training is already used in a huge variety of industries, and it has already proven to be the next step in e-learning and workplace education. However, despite its widespread use, using virtual reality (VR) for education and vr training is still something that hasn’t breached into public consciousness despite its huge potential. For [...]
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