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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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Developer Guide on Synchronising Transform in AR (Vuforia) using Fusion
Augmented reality has been around for years, with games like Pokemon Go putting AR in the hands of millions of players worldwide. However the variety of ways we can apply AR are still being explored, with multiplayer capabilities still being a relatively new and undocumented aspect of AR. Synchronising Transform, meaning the position, rotation, and [...]
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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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