Assessing the Need for VR Training Implementation in a Small Business

Before implementing VR training, you need to be 100% sure that it is exactly what you need. How to achieve that? Answer the following questions:

• Is my team stationed in one location or spread across the country/world?
• Does my business already have VR equipment?
• Is current training not engaging enough?
• Do I need to conduct training involving real-life-situation simulations?
• Does my training involve a lot of data visualization?
• Does my company have a high turnover?
• Will the training in VR be safer than in real life?

If you mostly answered yes, then it means that it is time to include VR in the learning process.

How to Implement Virtual Reality into Training in Small Companies or as an Individual Trainer? The Must-Haves

So, how do you implement virtual reality training? There are two main factors you need to consider:

• equipment—finding affordable, top VR headsets; ones that will do the trick and let your employees/clients immerse themselves in the training,
• VR training platform—a good platform where you can design and conduct your VR training.

What is important here is that you cut costs without downgrading the quality. How to do that? For instance, choose a no-code VR training platform, like Mazer Trainer.

Such a platform will enable you (or other members of your team) to prepare training on your own, without any assistance from IT specialists. They come with preloaded assets—environment, objects, and functions—which you can use together to form your training. Naturally, they might have limited flexibility, but they offer the most value for the limited money small businesses and individual trainers have.

Implementing VR Training in Practice

Having chosen your platforms and equipment, you need to start planning your training. This involves several steps:

• Learning how to use the tool—it is good that you involve all the people who might want to prepare and conduct VR training in your company.
• Preparing your first session—using the elements to set up your first training.
• Going on a test run—checking the training in practice to find issues and learn how to solve them.

You should also remember that your implementation does not end purely when every step of the above is completed. Instead, you’ll need to constantly monitor the effectiveness of your VR training (preferably using data, if you can collect it) and gather user feedback. This way, you will learn how to extract even more value from virtual reality and enhance your future training.

The Takeaway

Implementing VR training does not have to be costly nor difficult—it is accessible even for smaller companies and individual trainers. While it will still require you to invest in VR headsets and a platform to develop your training courses, these investments are not big and will pay off in just a few months. Therefore, we recommend switching to virtual reality and entering the new era of corporate learning!

You might also read: Data Visualization in Virtual Reality

The Synergy between AI and VR

Virtual reality is all about immersion, compelling worlds that resemble real-life environments and situations. Yet, so far, there was one thing that they could not imitate: human interactions. Artificial intelligence is here to change that.

When we discussed how AI will change the Metaverse, we already mentioned that the content will be impacted the most. With artificial intelligence, companies will finally be able to recreate the true real-life experience, including (but not only) human interactions. AI will modify the scenarios, impact the behavior of NPCs, and even enhance the graphics, taking immersion to another level. But this is not the only thing that will get an upgrade—so will the quality of the tasks and functions of such worlds for people.

VR and AI: Practical Applications

How can VR and AI work together? What will they change, and how? Let’s delve into this a bit more deeply and present several examples of this pair in practice.

Fire Safety Training

We may already observe VR fire safety training programs, but they still do not unlock their full potential. Currently, they can be utilized to:

• simulate the real-life environment and practice safety training in a given location,
• train creative thinking in pre-programmed situations,
• foster exchanging experiences.

With AI, this can be taken to a completely new level, enabling you to:

• create unpredictable fire training scenarios designed by AI,
• practice out-of-the-box solutions in unpredictable situations,
• evaluate the effects of the training by measuring various, often unstructured data about the trainees’ performance.

Data Analytics and Visualization in Finance

 When it comes to VR data visualization in finance, AI may be utilized to both analyze the information presented and adapt the visualization to the preferences of those involved. It helps businesses extract insights from it much more quickly through smart, 3D data manipulation and reduces the volume of information displayed to only the most crucial points.

Each person interested will see the data displayed differently, based on what they opted for in the past. As a result, every user can extract information from the visualized graphs much more easily and quickly, avoiding potential errors.

Immersion in Gaming

Finally, VR and AI are the perfect pair to make the gaming experience more immersive. More intelligent, less predictable NPCs, better graphics, or even a dynamically changing environment that does not need to be programmed to be affected by the players’ actions—all of this is possible with these two technologies. Combining them together will create a new era of gaming, one that lets the players truly live in the story they are presented with and embrace the world they explore.

Conclusions

AI and VR are a pair designed for greater things. They will enhance the experience of those using virtual reality significantly while improving all the existing VR systems. As such, we must accept artificial intelligence and expect it to be a component of more and more VR platforms. After all, everybody will want to reap the harvest and benefit from unleashing the potential of this pair.

You may also read: Will The Metaverse Ever Feel Real? (Part 1)