Training & Education

REPEATABLE AND SCALABLE LEARNING IN A SAFE ENVIRONMENT

When using VR, a user’s brain is highly active, as it takes in a multitude of sights and sounds that it has not seen before or that are not typical on a day-to-day basis. This causes the brain to create memories, and so the foundation for future recall - or learning. To paraphrase Dr. David Eagleman, neuroscientist, how many times have you driven to work and then realized you don’t remember anything about the journey? It’s because your brain knows the routine so well, it doesn’t need to store anything new. Whereas, if you take a different route to work one day, you have great recall - because your brain was learning and discovering something new. VR can create learning opportunities for this very reason — if the software is written correctly. Adding sensory effects on top of VR - which we do in the Pod - creates even more stimuli for the brain as it activates more of your senses, in addition to body movement.

Another benefit is that Sensory VR training is repeatable and scalable. Unlike more traditional in-person training, the Pod can collect powerful data that can help evaluate an individual’s progress, and allow comparison with peers or a control group. Using such data you can quantify the effectiveness of your training and progress against defined outcomes. Such fundamental metrics could include:

  • Performance — who is training, at what frequency are they training, confidence in task completion, as well as task success and completion rates;

  • Progress — specific activities performed by a user; task sequencing and completion metrics; decisions and reaction times, engagement, physical movements and activity

Among the types of training that we could create custom sensory Pod experiences for include:

  • situational first responder simulation (police, fire etc.)

  • safety scenarios (especially useful to gain experience where a real-world setting could be dangerous or expensive)

  • manufacturing or repair process (allows trainees to interact and gain experience by interacting with a highly accurate simulated environment)

  • industrial or military simulations

  • many more!

As content creators, we are not limited to “only” our own Pod platform — we can design and build such custom solutions for almost any VR platform. Just let us know what you’re looking for.

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