Part Two In Part One of this four-part series, we looked at how to improve the effectiveness of your employee training program, including why it’s important, what the current generation of workers is looking for and why virtual reality (VR) … Read More
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How to Improve Your Current Workforce Training Programs
Part 1: In 2016, millennials made up 35% of American workers, making them the single biggest generation in the U.S. workforce. This generation grew up with smartphones, tablets and gaming consoles. Dr. Christy Price, founding director of the Center for … Read More
Intelligent Tutoring: Bridging the Gap From Knowing to Doing
An award-winning dish may be delicious and a beauty to look at, but there’s more to creating it than simply knowing the ingredients. While knowing the ingredients is a big step, knowing how much of each ingredient goes into the … Read More
How to Measure Training Effectiveness of Virtual Reality
It’s been estimated that poor training costs companies nearly $13.5 million per year for every 1,000 employees. To make matters even worse, a study by Microsoft in 2015 found that the average person loses concentration after eight seconds—a full second … Read More
Comparing Virtual Reality Software Engines
Few markets are as hot as virtual reality (VR). Apple, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and others are all implementing VR or its siblings augmented reality (AR) and mixed reality (MR). When consumers and corporations look at VR, their attention usually goes … Read More
4 Research Papers to Support Your VR Training Business Case
Virtual reality training research is helping more and more companies understand that a VR training program can be the fastest, most effective way to train their employees. However, some CEOs and shareholders remain hard to convince, leaving CIOs and CTOs … Read More
5 Essential Elements of Great Virtual Reality Training Content
Traditional workplace safety training generally isn’t exciting or effective. Some situations are just too difficult or dangerous to recreate, so you settle for a PowerPoint and a multiple choice test. Humans don’t learn that way. Especially for adrenaline-filled emergency situations, … Read More
What Makes Great Virtual Reality Content
Virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) have taken the tech world by storm. Once only a fantasy, virtual reality has become increasingly common in the world of gaming, real estate, education, travel, and, in our case, training. Smartphones, tablets … Read More
How to Pick the Best Virtual Reality Education Software
Picking quality training materials and methods are essential to developing a confident and competent workforce. Traditionally, this means outlining the skills and knowledge that employees need to master and then building out an appropriate curriculum — often slides, worksheets, and … Read More
Benefits of Using Virtual Reality for Training
If you’ve never tried it, you might mistakenly think that virtual reality is still science fiction or a gaming gimmick. Nothing could be further from reality (pun fully intended). In fact, according to Gartner, one of the most trusted technology … Read More