Virtual Reality transforms corporate training

Consider the last time your company or institution received any training. What did your staff learn? Do you think your staff felt connected? Learn 3d experience training?

Do not feel ashamed if you answer no. This is likely the case for most. Training employees is a top priority for many companies. Many workplace accidents are caused by a lack of training. FASECOLDA, the Federation of Colombian Insurers, says 41% of all fatal workplace accidents in Colombia can be prevented.

This background raises the question of what is missing in training companies to be more successful. One word: practice. Employees must be able put into practice what they have learned in order to make training effective.

This can be risky as it may require the use of potentially dangerous instruments. It can also cost companies a lot in terms of logistics, transportation, and other facilities.

Virtual reality offers a feasible, simple, safe, and fun way to learn: immersive, interactive training.

Virtual reality glasses allow you to travel from your office, open space, and work center, including in supermarkets, airports, and streets. You can also have endless experiences with virtual reality.

Modern technologies allow you to see objects in all their details, with all their textures, and zoom in or out. The glasses also have integrated hearing aids that allow for a greater sense of spatiality.

Binaural sound, also known as Ambisonic sound, is a sound that appears to be coming from an object or place. It is modified by the user moving closer or farther away.

This creates a real-life experience for the user. Training is all about interaction. Although we tend to accept the reality presented to us as it is, it is important to interact with it and modify it.

Here is an example of a virtual reality interactive training for the oil industry (also called Oil & Gas).

Beyond the immersion

Reality glasses like the Oculus RiftS allow you to do this. They allow for six degrees of freedom. This means that the user can move in any direction they wish through a simulated environment.

It is also possible to interact and follow a procedure step-by-step to learn from your own experience. A person training to become an electrician could practice the repair of an electric transformer over and over without having to transport himself to its location or risk electrocution.

You can interact with the Oculus Rift and follow the instructions projected there. You can interact by approaching objects or marked spaces, focusing your gaze on them, and even touching them.

The Oculus Quest glasses, on the other hand, allow six degrees of movement and although they do not have a computer connected, their graphics are higher in detail than the Oculus S. However, they have manual controls that enable you to imitate the movements of your hands and to manipulate tangible objects.

This is useful for re-creating scenarios in construction and infrastructure where workers can repeatedly perform the same action (e.g., handling tools or assembling parts) until they master it.

More learning, less time

Many research and academic publications the reptilian mind is active when virtual reality glasses have been worn. It is responsible for controlling survival and reproduction functions and moderating the responses to stimuli based on information from the senses.

The brain stores the virtual reality interactions. However, if a traditional class session is held with readings, and a speaker is present, and the practice is shorter or later than the theoretical session is, the retention rate of information will be lower.

The Vocational Training for Employment (FPE) integrates the above programs Vocational Training (FPO) and Continuing Education into one.

It is a set of actions that aims to promote and extend among companies and employed and unemployed workers training that contributes to improving the competitiveness and productivity of companies. Likewise, it aims to improve the employability of workers, especially those groups that have greater difficulties in accessing or maintaining the labor market.

You can access the search engine for training actions for unemployed people, funded by the Junta de Andalucía, as well as the application forms and the lists of admitted and excluded students.

This is because the information is stored in the cerebral cortex (the outermost layer), which houses the functions of literacy and working memory, as well as abstract reasoning.

It is therefore important to be able to adapt to digital environments and invent through virtual reality platforms. This is not just about saving time, money and space but also increasing learning.

Other training actions

The vocational training system in Spain is made up of two subsystems: formal or initial vocational training, which depends on the Ministry of Education and the autonomous communities, and the employment training subsystem, attached to the Ministry of Labor and Social Economy under through the State Public Employment Service (SEPE) and the autonomous communities.

Stay tune for more information about 3D training.