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Change Management Gamification: A New Approach to Driving Organisational Change
In today's fast-paced business environment, change management has become a crucial element for organisational success. However, managing change can be a daunting task, as it often involves changing the existing organisational structure, processes, and culture. To address this challenge, leading businesses are increasingly proposing a new approach to driving organisational change through gamification. In this [...]
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The Benefits of Augmented Reality in Pharma Education and Training
Pharmacy education and training is, for an obvious fact, crucial in ensuring that healthcare professionals are equipped with the necessary skills and knowledge to provide safe and effective care to patients. However, traditional methods of teaching and learning may not always provide learners with the most engaging and immersive experiences suitable for modern medicine practices. [...]
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360 VR Workplace Training: The Ultimate Tool For Enhanced Learning
Virtual reality (VR) is no longer just for gaming and entertainment. In recent years, it has been adopted by various industries to enhance employee training and learning experiences. The benefits of VR in training are numerous, especially in the workplace; compared to lectures (5%), reading (10%), and audio-visual learning (20%), 360 VR training has a [...]
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Using Mixed Reality to Improve Medical Training
Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) has in recent years opened up a whole new world of possibilities in various industry sectors, but within healthcare (specifically medical training) the benefits just seem to keep on coming. As such, Mixed Reality (MR) is quickly becoming a mainstay in the medical field, promising to revolutionise how [...]
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10 Benefits of VR in Construction Safety Training
In 2022, construction accounted for 25% of worker fatalities and the fatal injury rate almost doubled that of other industries. Suffice to say, more needs to be done to reduce risk in the construction industry - and virtual reality (VR) could be the tool to change the game entirely. With traditional methods of safety training [...]
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Optimising Pharma Communications To Create Deeper Connections
The global COVID pandemic shone a spotlight on communications within the pharma industry - and the effect was startling. Increasingly, pharma companies and services face a widening disconnect between themselves and their patients. Internal communications flag, as employees question the approach of the business that employs them. Healthcare stagnates and processes flounder as a vital [...]
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3D Medical Animation: Medical Illustration And A New Dawn In Healthcare
Projected to grow by 19.2% CAGR by 2029 (GlobeNewswire), and given the ever-expanding sophistication of animation software, 3D medical animations are booming right now - and with good reason. Doctors, healthcare professionals and patients around the world are realising the benefits of using animatic 3D models to visualise and conceptualise many different aspects within the [...]
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How Augmented Reality in Pharma Changes Everything
Organisations within the pharmaceuticals industry routinely face unrelenting pressure to consistently deliver breakthrough solutions in record time. The Covid-19 pandemic and the unparalleled vaccine development turnaround from companies such as Pfizer and AstraZeneca has only amplified this already unyielding supply and demand dynamic. There is no denying that technologies such as IoT and AI played [...]
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The Importance Of VR Health And Safety Training Animations
According to self-report data from the Labour Force Survey, 565,000 workers sustained a non-fatal injury at work in 2021/22. Whether caused by slips and trips, handling and carrying, or being struck by a moving object, the workplace is one of the most common places for an accident to happen. While there are many variations of [...]
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Pharmaceutical Animation – Scientific Storytelling Through Video
There’s no escaping the fact - biotech is a complex world. Pharmacology encompasses myriad, often-complicated topics and processes, and forward-facing pharmaceutical companies need many strings to their bow. At any given time, the onus may be on pharma companies to provide elements such as: MOA (mechanism of action) demonstrations, novel healthcare research, doctor and nurse [...]
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How Gamification Can Benefit Your Workplace
“A game is an opportunity to focus our energy, with relentless optimism, at something we’re good at (or getting better at) and enjoy. In other words, gameplay is the direct emotional opposite of depression.” - Jane McGonigal, author, researcher, designer By now, gamification has to be the corporate world’s worst-kept secret. As a tool for [...]
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VR Fire Safety Training: A Guide to Innovative Training Techniques
For countless businesses, the office, warehouse, an outdoor plot - or any other premises - is irreplaceable; it’s the very nerve centre of operations. Sadly, however, no physical location is ever truly free from fire hazards, and sometimes, the worst can happen. It only takes a spark to start a fire (or wildfire) that can [...]
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Exploring Gamification Strategies in Medical Education
Most people have a very specific idea of what a ‘gamer’ is; the term usually conjures up a specific image in the mind. But the reality of today’s gamer couldn’t be more different, with the prevalence of mobile games and pandemic living having a huge impact on shifting the demographics of who a gamer is. [...]
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What are the Most Effective Training Methods for Employees?
In the words of Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company and one of the 20th century’s most successful business people, “the only thing worse than training your employees and having them leave, is not training them and having them stay.” Indeed, the business value of an effective training program, and the implementation of [...]
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How Corporate Explainer Videos Can Aid In Business Growth
Enterprise is, for better or worse, the energy that makes our consumer world go round. Businesses come in all shapes and sizes, selling all manner of different products and services, catering to every conceivable market demographic. But of the almost 5.6 million companies in the UK, and the 213 million that are estimated to exist [...]
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The Best Animated Explainer Videos to Inspire Your Next Project
Nine seconds. That's the purported attention span of the much-maligned goldfish. But, somewhat less-amusingly, the modern human consumer has an attention span of eight - just eight - seconds, meaning that humans have weaker concentration abilities... than goldfish. That's according to research by Microsoft, and reported in TIME magazine, anyway. The headline-grabbing and slightly tongue-in-cheek [...]
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How to Use Gamification to Motivate Employees
It’s no secret that engaged employees are motivated employees. Moreover, job satisfaction drives productivity and profits. Surveys show that a happy workforce produces higher levels of performance, less absenteeism and better employee retention. The key question for businesses is how to keep your employees motivated to work for your company. With advancements in technology, and [...]
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Top 5 Benefits of VR for Education & Training in Business
"Crucial to science education," in the words of Martin Rees, British cosmologist, astrophysicist and fifteenth Astronomer Royal, "is hands-on involvement: showing, not just telling; real experiments and field trips." In the digital world of today, rote-learning, memorisation and recitation are educational techniques of the past. We've awoken to the truth that 'practice makes perfect' - [...]
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Pharmaceutical Animation: Say More With Video
The pharmaceutical industry has an extensive reach. However, large companies within this sector do not have a strong brand perception with the public. One of the challenges pharmaceutical companies need to overcome is communication. For the most part, pharma communication is the existing paradigm that is neither informative, engaging or memorable. So what can companies [...]
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The Science of Gamification: Does it Really Increase Engagement?
No matter your sector or industry, engaging your users is the first step on the path to success; fail to inspire, captivate and arrest people, and any subsequent efforts to make sales (or even be noticed) will be in vain - or, at least, significantly hindered. Our modern world is populated by human beings, consumers [...]
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Why Are Animated Explainer Videos So Effective?
Video content now makes up a huge part of what it means to be online, and more than even before, businesses are finding new ways to interact with new audiences through video production. With social media platforms like TikTok encouraging such a rapid turnover of video content, it’s not surprising that companies are quickly slotting [...]
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Can Storytelling In Games Help Improve Mental Health?
To those who don’t play video games, the concept might seem strange. Video games appear to be just another way to waste time, however a huge amount of the gaming industry is driven by storytelling. Just like books and films, many games tell in depth, complex and emotional stories, with games such as The Last [...]
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What Is SCORM And Why Is It So Important In E-Learning?
As the e-learning industry continues to grow, there is a broader range of authoring tools and learning management systems for e-learning content creators to choose from and more courses for students to invest in themselves. This can only be a good thing, right? In essence, yes. More choice means companies creating e-learning courses and modules [...]
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A Brief History of Virtual Reality
It’s 2022, and by now most people have at least heard of virtual reality (VR). Whilst experience with VR still remains a mystery to most, interest in the technology has been gaining momentum for more than a decade - but the concept of virtual reality is much older. You may be surprised to learn the [...]
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Oculus Developer Mode Set Up Guide
Here at Sliced Bread Animation, we’ve worked on a range of different immersive VR experiences, from venturing inside the human heart to fire safety training in the workplace. In order to create these experiences, we need to use what's called the ‘Developer Mode’ on the oculus headset. The developer mode allows us to ‘sideload’ our [...]
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How Gaming Is Helping Children With Learning Difficulties
Studies looking at the neurodiverse effects of video gaming found that purpose-designed game learning could be used as a treatment for children with learning difficulties. Researchers discovered that video games increase attention, reduce hyperactivity and nullify impulsivity - symptoms that are commonly associated with conditions such as autism and ADHD. Neurological conditions not only impede [...]
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Improving Information Retention: The Importance of an Animated Explainer Video
Gone are the days of cumbersomely explaining concepts via long-winded emails, or worse, in a hastily thrown-together PowerPoint presentation. The digital world has moved on in leaps and bounds, and with it, we possess a far more sophisticated and potent method of messaging at our fingertips. In this day and age, with the aid of [...]
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Why Branded NFTs Are Here To Stay
Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) became mainstream this year. The furore around the top-performing NFTs has captured the public imagination. Many of these unique tokens are already collector’s items. The NFT marketplace took off with the introduction of 10,000 software-generated “CryptoPunks” which netted the creators of the punk-style characters over $1 billion. Since then NFT collectables have exploded. [...]
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The Different Methods For Utilising Augmented Reality
Augmented reality (AR) is an increasingly growing trend that is permeating numerous aspects of our life. It has multiple uses that inform, inspire and entertain. In a nutshell, AR can provide data in real-time that influences decision making. The technology allows users to visualise the real world with a digital augmentation overlay making for an [...]
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The Importance of Emotions In The Learning Process
Virtual reality, animation and gamification are the stand-out performers in digital learning environments. Whilst these relatively new technologies are not ubiquitously established tools across the board - yet - researchers agree that the emotional provocation they offer can significantly enhance learning. The fact of the matter is that immersive technologies make experiences feel real. This [...]
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How AR Training Tools Support Fun Informative Learning?
The adoption of augmented reality (AR) as a corporate training tool is proving to be an effective approach. AR fosters faster learning, helps to improve soft skills, optimises workflow, reduces training material, saves time and enhances engagement. AR training tools in a corporate environment can be executed via a mobile device such as a smartphone [...]
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HAPPIE Haptics For Innovate UK – VR Tactile Feedback
Introduction Haptic Authoring Pipeline for the Production of Immersive Experiences, or HAPPIE for short, was an Innovate UK funded Research and Development project that Sliced Bread Animation was more than excited to tackle in the later months of 2019 through to 2021. The aim of the research was to build projects that would give a [...]
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