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How VR Can Replace Costly on the Job Learning Training is crucial in the maintenance, manufacturing and petrochemical industries. From working with complex machinery to dangerous chemicals, safety and mastery are...

VR simulations can present leaders with multiple challenging scenarios where problem-solving and making complex decisions are essential. From crisis management to executive planning scenarios, training in VR means leaders...

Disruptive and innovative technology, new competitors, shifting employee needs, and fluctuating market dynamics means leaders need to upskill themselves to increase their confidence in leading teams, improve quick and...

Want to cut your training by half, increase staff retention by 52% and significantly reduce workplace accidents? Then VR might be the answer to your training needs.    We’d love...

The Challenge Royal Dutch Shell is one of the world's largest oil and gas companies, with operations spanning across the globe. Training thousands of employees for offshore oil rig...

Do you want to save money on staff training costs, increase knowledge retention and positively impact the experience customers have with your brand? KFC used VR to train their...

VR training is taking organisations to new heights!  With an increase in employee engagement (40%), reduction in error rates (90%) and a drop in workplace injuries (70%) VR is...

Verizon is a leading telecoms company. Early on, they focused on traditional training methods, which were doing little to prepare their customer service representatives for the reality of dealing...

Walmart is a retail giant that knows how to bring in sales on Black Friday. We’re talking about an average of 115 million shoppers descending on their stores, hungry...

In 2022, Meta lost a whopping 13.7 billion dollars on its virtual reality (VR) incubator company, Reality Labs. This staggering loss has led many to question the potential of...

You might be surprised to learn that the World Economic Forum’s ‘Jobs Reset Summit’ report found that traditionally ‘soft’ skills are most important in the workplace.  Critical thinking, problem-solving,...

In 1913, the father of electricity Thomas Edison, made a bold prediction about movies. He thought that the motion picture would revolutionise the education system. Edison predicted that "In...

There is no questioning the impact that Meta has had on bringing Virtual Reality into the mainstream. In the AR space there has yet to be a mainstream product,...

When most of us go under the knife, we don’t really stop to think about how competent the surgeon is doing the surgery and how they have learnt and...

Dr Bianca Wright leads the immersive tech curriculum as an associate professor at Coventry University. Wright shared her thoughts with us about the future of virtual reality in a...

Last year, we predicted that VR would shape the future of work, particularly true in the workplace training sector. This prediction has been vindicated by the immersive tech industry....

Virtual reality has not taken the world by storm. Augmented reality and other immersive tech, are not mainstream preoccupations either.

It is no secret that the last few years have been weird. It is now a cliché to hear about how companies “pivoted” to a remote working model as...

Some might view see gamification as a cheap trick. An inserting of game-like elements into an otherwise mundane piece of software...

When we think about internships, I like to imagine the movie The Internship — taking place in fun environments, playing quidditch and solving fun challenges with your peers. However...

When shiny new technology comes out, innovators come out with ways it can solve a range of problems. Virtual Reality (VR) is no exception...

Virtual reality is becoming an increasingly common and effective tool for training in more industries than you may think. The medical and science faculties at leading universities have implemented...

Mainstream perceptions about VR have become all too predictable. There are many myths about VR. People believe that VR is limited in its scope, incredibly expensive, and impractical for...

VR is a solution to the current training deficit; in the form of ‘experiential learning’. In essence, it’s the process of learning by doing, rather than being lectured to.

Virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) are playing an increasingly important role in everyday life. As these immersive technologies mature, and more mainstream applications for them are realised,...

Mignon Reyneke is a highly decorated academic and researcher at the University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business (GSB). Reyneke shared her insights into the potential for VR...

Internationally acclaimed tech guru, author, TEDx speaker and futurist, Theo Priestly, is no stranger to technology's role in businesses that want to survive and thrive. We caught up with...

The way that most people interact with VR technology is in the form of entertainment. For instance; the most famous applications are in the gaming sector. Beat Saber is...

Designing and executing an effective, sustainable company culture takes a lot of hard work and perseverance. If done well can create an environment where people thrive. A strong company...

The early 1990s marked a significant shift in the world of ten-pin bowling. For the previous century, bowling had been a niche sport, that attracted some of the world’s...

Have you ever found yourself struggling with decision fatigue? How about feeling overwhelmed by increasingly sophisticated technology? Alternatively, you might’ve struggled with communicating with co-workers. People struggle with ‘soft...

Pop culture depictions of extended reality (XR) technology can be a little jarring sometimes. The first season of the internationally acclaimed series Black Mirror unpacks the horrifying

With Facebook making a massive push towards virtual reality and the metaverse, the world of work is guaranteed to change. Forecasts from 2021 suggest that 25-30% of American professionals...

Last year the VR and AR industry saw unprecedented growth. PwC’s recent Seeing is believing report estimates that the number of jobs that were “enhanced” by this technology tripled

Augmented and Virtual Reality can play an important role in business. If VR tech is developed at scale, it can change the conversation about workplace training and onboarding. Virtual...

Augmented Reality (AR) Technology is nearing its 20th birthday. This is surprising. AR feels newer than that. The AR Wikipedia page refers to functional AR systems in military training...