Shape your learning experience with Virtual Reality!

Rashika Dass
4 min readJun 14, 2018

Technology is maturing at an unexpected rate with bringing Virtual reality into existence .With time a well-designed content is required to adopt this growing platform.We all are thrilled with the magic created by virtual reality and virtual games. However it does not purely serve us entertainment but also makes our work more efficient, easier and empathetic.

Virtual Reality is a computer-generated simulation that creates an immersive experience for users in a digital environment, has certainly become a popular method of knowledge sharing, and this has led to a huge investment in VR products.

The most powerful manifestation of this potential is in the field of training and education.

Virtual Reality is all set to introduce a whole new paradigm in healthcare, retail industry and manufacturing by offering contextual learning experience.

Hardware sales from virtual and augmented reality devices will reach $80 billion by 2025”- Goldman Sachs Group Inc.

Let us look at few examples to know how Virtual Reality is useful for education and training front:

> Aviation:

Pilots are trained for flying a plane by providing them a virtual experience before actually flying a real plane.

> Healthcare:

Virtual Reality helps organisations to offer immersive learning experience and creates realistic framework to train their professionals for real life scenarios. Additionally on-site training is dangerous and costly so Virtual Reality provides proper training as well as reduces the cost. It helps to provide on-the-job training and operational training in any domain.

> Oil and Gas

Virtual Reality is used in this industry to provide operational training and also to train employees about safety measures and emergency situations. The working condition for the employees in the offshore platforms, production facilities are very hostile. Incase of any emergency the engineers and staff have to be send to the location to remedy the situation many a times, they come across a condition that was not expected or experienced before. In such a condition, theoretical knowledge doesnt work out that well. The employees need to have a hands on experience training to deal with the situation and also have the confidence to deal with it. To give a real time hands on experience for training is not possible. Hence Virtual Reality helps to give employee a virtual hands on experience training to be prepared for a similar scenario and also build their confidence.

Benefits of Virtual Reality Learning:

Virtual Reality is a technology that creates a three-dimensional image simulation for an immersive experience and learning. It almost combines the real and digital world that allows learners to have the 360-degree view and ability to interact with the training environment. VR-based learning has opened countless opportunities for many professionals, not restricted to only gaming or entertainment world.

Per Gartner’s prediction, by 2020, 50% of the 50,000 largest businesses globally will have piloted or integrated immersive head-mounted displays (HMDs) for enterprise and customer use.

1. Benefiting Corporation:

Employees are now trained using VR which helps employees as well as organizations. It helps in reducing cost and making learning faster. It boosts the confidence of employees and helps them to experience a live situation and understand what measures are to be adopted in such situations.

2. Participant Engagement:

Virtual reality technology provides sensational experience that helps learners to understand complex concepts easily and also boosts their interest to participate in the training sessions.

3. Personified experience:

Virtual Reality is an evolving technology that has enhanced the whole training experience by creating more personified experience. The high-quality interaction tools and objects have already left users dazzled. For instance, Architects use VR to create 3D model into virtual reality which helps them to understand the project plans in better way.

World’s largest retailers in U.S. — WALMART use Virtual reality to train its staff. They have begun with a 360-degree video that offers a real-life scenarios experience to the staffs in their training initiatives. Employees are given situation and are asked to make decisions based on it. These situations are based on live conditions that occur in the organization. Instructor trains them to deal with such situations say like dealing with holiday rush, crowds or cleaning up mess in the store. Industries like healthcare, retail, manufacturing, education, automotive are benefiting from VR technology. They are trying to extract the best they can.

According to the increasing range of devices like mobile handset and immersive headset, 171 million people will use virtual reality in coming years.

Some sensational transformation in the industries utilizing Virtual Reality is bound to happen, so get ready to experience a better future ahead.

“We are dedicated to create solutions of the highest standards to help your brand interact with its audience in an innovative and path breaking way.” — Twikar

twikAR is build with the objective to enhance user experience, bring value to education by making learning more interactive. It allows brands to create interactive content using augmented reality for their products and services promoting user engagement. This brings better ROI to their marketing spends and increase brand recall.

Connect with us to know how we could help you training your employees to increase productivity and reduce loses. Call on +91 989 020 5131 or write to us on info@twikar.com . We’ll guide you entirely on how Virtual Reality can best fit in your organisation and gain productivity. We can together make your brand the most well trained and productive for efficient growth.

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Rashika Dass

Growth Marketer | Certified Inbound Marketer| Business Head