Learning and Success Stories with Virtual Reality
Increases knowledge adherence
When we go to a classroom for training, we need to be in front of an interesting, inspiring person who knows how to keep the audience engaged.
The topic should be attractive enough not to distract us, but when we get out of there we will remember maybe 15% of what we were told.
When we train inside a virtual reality simulator, we use immersed vision in the environment in which we will later work.
The hands will be used to operate buttons and knobs with the remote controls and the sounds and vibrations recreate the use of tools.
In this way our learning will move from 15% to 45% or even 85% in certain processes.
Companies such as Johnson & Johnson increased their students ‘ scores by 233% and were able to complete 252% more steps than in traditional training.
Travel is no longer essential
Thanks to virtual reality training, we can avoid unnecessary travel, saving money and time.
In this way, it is possible to work in a collaborative environment where all users can be trained, avoiding the difficulties of cross travel agendas.
The return on investment is immediate because the cost of travel, lodging and meals is much higher than the cost of glasses and development of the simulator.
If we need to gather 40 people in a nearby city, put them up in a hotel for four days and pay the instructor,
We are likely to spend at least three or four times the cost of a virtual training course that can be repeated as often as desired.
Building trust
In a virtual environment such as Virtual Involve, it is possible to have staff represented by avatars thanks to virtual reality glasses, developing trust. In real life it is not so easy to generate empathy with others, however, in these simulators the fact of having an avatar instead of our presence makes it easy to generate trust. In collaborative spaces, which are virtual and free us from many inhibitions, it is possible to develop higher levels of trust. With it you can learn teamwork skills without having to travel or spend hours getting comfortable with your chair neighbor. Companies such as Hilton have managed to change the behavior of 87% of their employees towards empathy and their training sessions have gone from 4 hours to 20 minutes.
The trainer devotes the same amount of time, for one time only, to preparing the material.
In training based on current methods, it is necessary to repeat the entire site set-up, facilitator, assistance and travel over and over again with the difficulties that this implies. If we add to this that the retained learning is only 15%, the team must be retrained in rooms or by an expert on site who teaches them on site and the real elements of the work. When training in virtual reality, the same trainer only has to spend one time preparing his material and hand it over to the developer to be repeated as often as needed. Thanks to this, the training team can spend time preparing more and more effective materials using their time efficiently, as we already know how scarce these resources are.
Minimal retraining costs
By having the material finished and loaded into the virtual reality glasses,
the user can repeat it as many times as he/she needs, in his/her space and in as much time as possible.
In this way we make intelligent use of everyone’s time and the expenses will only be those of the user’s time.
If we add the cost of the trainer, travel, meeting rooms,
labor time spent in travel, cost of stopped machinery and labor accidents, the Return on Investment is much higher.
Companies like Nestlé saved in their learning expenses around USD100,000 per month.
The experience delivers more learning than a classroom.
When using virtual reality tools, we put into practice almost all the senses by using hearing, sight, touch, muscle memory (there are even devices to simulate smells). This way we train in the same way as in the real environment and this leads the user to arrive at his work area knowing the space, the machines, the tools and the processes, having “lived” them. Productivity then skyrockets because the person does not go to his memory, nor to his notes, nor to the user manual as much as he does when he goes to a classroom. If we combine this with a virtual meeting environment such as Virtual Involve, the experience is enriched by having everyone in the same space, immersed in knowledge and a space that emulates the corporate. In these tools, it is possible to share three-dimensional models of products, BigData viewers, corporate meetings for the review of a Balanced Scorecard or a board of directors meeting in which we can follow up on each person.
Reduces occupational hazards and fatalities
We can certainly avoid accidents and reinforce safety recommendations at work. When working in virtual reality we recreate spaces without having people operating machines on or dangerous spaces before they are ready for it. Nor should we supervise them for a long time until they show that they have learned, because thanks to virtual reality the person has learned much more. In this way we avoid deaths due to accidents at work, dismemberment, lawsuits, stopped machinery, investigations by control and surveillance entities and our internal auditing processes. On the other hand, absenteeism due to training was reduced by 90% in the Hilton hotel chain.
TwoReality, leading virtual and augmented reality agency.
VR is a clearly growing, accessible and versatile technology with a lot of room for growth in Spain, Colombia and Mexico. Virtual reality companies in the country are still scarce, mainly dedicated to entertainment use and for this reason TwoReality is becoming the main virtual reality agency in the country. In TwoReality we have more than ten years of experience in the development of VR applications. We have worked with major brands such as Banco Santander, Bacardi, RedBull, Reebok or Bayer, allowing us to be the main virtual reality reference in Spain.
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