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VR for training and onboarding
VR is a powerful tool for learning. You are engaged with your body as well as with your brain and the physical interaction makes the learning effective. As you are immersed in the experience, you do not get disturbed and distracted like you do with e-learning or in a classroom.
That is why a growing number of enterprises use VR for training and onboarding.
See all our projects related to training and onboarding with XR technologies
Carlsberg is raising the bar for training service staff at all its on-trade customers with what is – probably – the most scalable VR training solution.
Future employees at NORMAL's warehouse will be given a VR headset, to train the basic rules of pallet packing even before their first day of work.
Train your employees with VR to identify and dodge cyber security risks in the most fun, engaging, and memorable way.
Studies by the consulting firm PwC show that VR learners compared to classroom and e-learning peers are four times faster to train, four times more focused, 375% more emotionally connected to the content, and 275% more confident to apply the skills learned after training.
In virtual reality training, you can use 3D models of your actual products and facilities to make the training feel very close to the real experience. Once your employees step out of the training, they already feel familiar with your product and facilities.
Virtual reality lets your staff practice the tasks again and again at their own pace without being disturbed. No need to travel to training facilities, and no need to waste products or materials. And the safest way to familiarize people with dangerous situations, as safety procedures can be practiced over and over with no risks at all involved.
Training and onboarding in VR is also very flexible. No need to assemble a large group or a teacher or trainer, just give the employee a headset and let them train for the task when the time is right.
One of our customers, Normal, even gives new employees in their ware a VR headset to take home in the period between they sign the contract and have their first day. Read more about that case here.
PwC VR Soft Skills Training Efficacy Study
4x
faster to train than in the classroom
275%
more confident to apply skills learned after training
375%
more emotionally connected to content than classroom learners
4x
more focused than their e-learning peers
Should you use VR, AR or MR for your training and onboarding?
The advantage of Virtual Reality
The advantage of VR is that you are totally immersed. Even if you are doing the training in your own living room, your mind will believe that you are wherever the situation is supposed to take place – be it in an office, on a ship, in a bar, or even on the moon. We can create any environment for you.
The advantage of Mixed Reality
MR (Mixed Reality) where you see the real environment through your headset is especially efficient for situations where you need to familiarize yourself with specific products or equipment, and perhaps need to talk to or interact with others along the way.
If you are a service technician needing to be able to repair or give customer support to a new product, you can have a virtual 3D model of the product based on the actual drawings as a digital twin and place it in your office. You can walk around it – and this is where MR is great so you don’t bump into your furniture – and you can disassemble it and try different functions and settings as many times as you look.
The advantage of Augmented Reality
AR is when you use your phone or tablet to place the 3D model in your environment as a digital layer on top of the real world. Just like in MR, you can interact with it, only you don’t have your hands free and don’t have the same immersive feeling, as the model can only be seen on the smaller screen.
However, AR is very effective as you don’t need a headset, and you can quickly see a real-size 3D model of the object you need to learn about. You can twist and turn it, and you can walk around it, and you can place information on specific parts of the model.
For one customer, DESMI Ocean Guard, we developed an app that lets you place a 3D model of a ballast water treatment system in your surroundings, and by clicking on the parts, you immediately get to the specific page in the manual for that part. Imagine the time saved for their service technicians looking for the right page (once they have found the manual). Read more about that case here.
