All corporate organisations that rely on any legislation or compliance procedures have a responsibility to effectively train their employees. Virtual Reality (VR) provides a fully immersive experience of real world examples in a training safe environment, so if you need to provide training on essential procedures, creating VR fire safety training, VR construction training or even first aid could be the solution. It can also help facilitate an understanding of product knowledge within the healthcare or engineering sectors.
We have developed a number of VR training projects and our newest one uses the Oculus Quest headset and integrates with any Learning management Systems using xAPI.
VR Training is designed to:
- Promote an immersive understanding of a real life situation
- Educate users on measures to take to prevent an incident
- Demonstrate how to act in the event of an incident
- Enable easier remote training
- Simplify complex problems and situations
What we did
In the example project we partnered with Knights Agency to create 8 interactive modules that take users through simulated workplace settings. The goal of the project is to bring the staff skills training world into VR and provide retentive and engaging learning.
We have many examples of high level clinical training demonstrations utilizing VR in healthcare but following research we found that there was also a gap in the market for the technology in the more day to day, and much higher volume, aspects of workforce development.
The benefits of VR learning
Communicate quickly – Virtual reality allows complex messages to be distilled into clear ideas, which is vital for a projects success.
Gain understanding – Virtual reality transforms a message, making it easy to understand and visualise. A complex objective can be broken down into easy to understand and digestible information.
Audience retention – Using virtual reality allows you to make things happen that are outside the realms of reality, therefore making the message as a whole, much more engaging to the viewer.
Versatile – Build once use hundreds times. Virtual reality can easily be adapted and reused to develop other training modules.
