How To Innovate Remote Learning With Custom Virtual Reality

In the pre-pandemic times, custom Virtual Reality was already making a significant, positive impact on L&D. More precisely, research indicates that it captures attention, aids retention, and speeds the application of learning on the job. Today, the need to innovate remote learning solutions is growing, with 30% of U.S. workers continuing to work from home multiple days per week. Consequently, training approaches will continue to go through radical transformation, as we seek alternatives to face-to-face learning. That is, VR offers a powerful and innovative solution.

Webinars, conference calls, and VILT can be effective approaches. On the other hand, they’re often missing a crucial piece: practice. Technical skills, safety skills, soft skills development, and empathy are common training needs, that require a hands-on approach. Learners need to apply the skills they’re learning. They need to make mistakes in a safe environment and receive real-time guidance and feedback. So, solutions need to be high-impact, sustainable, and they need to offer new ways to bring learners together safely!

In this session, you’ll learn how custom Virtual Reality training can help you innovate remote learning programs. You’ll discover how new trends in VR, including voice recognition and tone analysis, body movement tracking, and biometrics, can be combined to craft an instructionally effective learning experience. Furthermore, you’ll learn how data tracking inside the headset can allow you to customize the experience, provide proper guidance and feedback during training, and gain insights for continuous improvement.

Last but not least, you’ll explore technology that enables real-time, multi-learner experiences and instructor-led interactions. More precisely, we’ll demonstrate this exciting and safe alternative to face-to-face training through SweetRush’s Tree Island.

SweetRush's Tree Island is a 6Dof, interactive, multi-user world, designed for collaboration, experimentation, and crafting solutions. Join us and discover a whole new world of remote learning! We will explore how dynamic and immersive VR can change and enhance the world of Learning and Development.

During this session, you will learn:

• Why custom Virtual Reality offers effective alternatives to face-to-face training
• How to combine features such as body movement tracking and voice recognition to create interactive practice activities
• Tips to use data tracking in the headset to enhance immersive learning design
• Ways VR can enable safe, remote, multi-learner, instructor-led experiences