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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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Construction & Engineering Communication Projects
We make it our mission to transform our clients’ requirements into compelling stories that captivate and engage target audiences. We partner with clients such as Network Rail, Hitachi Rail, Costain, Airbus, and MTR to help them visualise their messages. We have an extensive history and understanding of immersive animation processes. We know how important it [...]
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E-Learning Solutions: A Deep Dive into Gamification For Learning
You may have heard phrases like interactive e-learning, gamification for learning and gamified training thrown around when discussing the ever developing education industry. However, do you know what these terms mean? With all of the apps, websites, virtual workstations and online spaces constantly being updated and integrated into our daily life, it's hard to know [...]
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Why AR Could Be Your Next E-learning Solution
Do you work at a company that handles complex information, or deals with specific and difficult to understand subject matter? Most industries have intricacies that can be extremely hard to convey, and in many cases, finding the correct way is still elusive. Augmented reality could be the solution. Unlike virtual reality, where the user is [...]
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Innovative Training for Health and Safety: Exploring E-Learning Solutions
Among team leads and organisational managers, no two words manage to provoke such scoffs, jeers, or snorts of derision quite like ‘health’ and ‘safety.’ Packaged as some great prohibitive exercise in ‘can’t do this, mustn’t do that’, health and safety is much maligned throughout industries, leading many employees to nod knowingly: “everybody hates the safety [...]
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Gamification In The Workplace: Enhancing Collaboration and Productivity
What does the word ‘work’ mean to you? Data entry? Medical appointments? Emergency services? Teaching? NASA astronaut? (OK… unlikely. But you never know.) Whatever your place of work, ‘fun’ and ‘games’ are probably not concepts that immediately spring to mind. It’s a long-held, not-often-spoken, almost universally-accepted truth about the postmodern work/life paradigm (The Muse): free [...]
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Level Up Your Hiring With Gamification In Talent Acquisition
In August 2004, Google (anonymously) placed a billboard over Highway 101 in Silicon Valley. The billboard read, in stark, unbranded, black and white script: ‘{first 10-digit prime found in consecutive digits e}.com.’ The answer – of course – is 7427466391.com. People who followed the trail this far were met with another equation. Having beaten this [...]
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Training Tomorrow’s Doctors: Augmented Reality in Healthcare Education
As technology continues to revolutionise the healthcare industry, AR (augmented reality) has emerged as a powerful tool for medical professionals and students alike. It has proven itself to be an effective tool for training surgeons, enhancing patient care, and improving medical education. Notably, AR technology has already been used in numerous medical procedures, including spine [...]
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Gaming Culture – Utilising Game Mechanics to Enhance Your Learning and Development
Gamification has been a phrase thrown around in corporate e-learning and training space for many years, with organisations using it to create more engaging and interactive training for their employees, however, most gamified learning continues to be nothing more than a multiple choice quiz, and some digital content. The gaming industry is immense; the board [...]
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How AR Training is Transforming the Workplace: Improving Employee Performance and Productivity
As the landscape of the workplace continues to evolve, businesses across industries are exploring innovative ways to enhance employee performance and productivity. Augmented reality (AR) training is one such solution that is rapidly gaining traction as a powerful tool for improving workforce proficiency. With its ability to provide immersive and interactive learning experiences, AR technology [...]
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Why You Should Hire a Medical Animation Company For Your Next Project
Medical animation has become an essential tool for modern education and research, and its use is on the rise. With an ever-increasing demand for medical animations, it is essential to understand the importance of hiring a medical animation company for your next project. As an experienced medical animation company, Sliced Bread Animation specialises in creating [...]
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Change Management Gamification: A New Approach to Communicating 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
The ability to explain complex medical concepts via 3D medical animation signals a step up for the healthcare industry. Everything from patient engagement to student training - from 3D visualisations of surgical devices, to explaining the human body through computer graphics - stands to attain new levels of quality and effectiveness, through medical illustration and [...]
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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 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 Training In Business Learning
Immersive VR training can be used to construct riskless environments, accelerate onboarding processes, and vastly improve ROI; and yet, only just over a quarter of all businesses are currently using VR to train employees (Finances Online). At Sliced Bread Animation, we've developed a number of high-quality VR training projects for our clients, helping to create [...]
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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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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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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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Using Gamification In Interactive E-learning
Gamification is a visually engaging and creative tool used in e-learning that enables you to introduce new employees to your company training program. It can also be used for ongoing training and making your internal comms more engaging. With hybrid models likely to become the standard for the vast majority of businesses in the post-pandemic [...]
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Haptic VR – Car Engine Assembly Production
With several years of commercial e-learning projects designed and developed for virtual reality devices, Sliced Bread Animation has taken a look to further build on this knowledge-base by adding haptic and force feedback aspects to e-learning experiences. In relation to the technology world, haptic feedback encapsulates every device that provides a sensation of digital touch. [...]
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