10 Reasons Why You Should Use VR to Train Your Workforce

Over the years, Virtual Reality has emerged from being a mere gaming technology to a technology that holds tremendous potential to transform the future of businesses across industries. Virtual reality is especially being used in many training scenarios with fantastic results.

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As per a study conducted by Business Insider, Walmart, the world’s largest retailer employed VR in its 200 odd training academies to allow employees encounter realistic scenarios like holiday turnout, tidying messy aisles, etc. Likewise, KFC, the fried chicken chain has moved to virtual reality simulation to retrain its employees and upgrade food quality across the chain. Imagine the case of Ford, wherein employees across the world can get a first-hand feel of un-launched models of cars to be trained on all their design aspects.

Statista, the online portal for Market Research and Market data, shows a projected economic impact of virtual reality technologies worldwide to amount to 29.5 billion US Dollars by 2020.

Image Source: Statista; the Statistics Portal

World-over, companies are switching to VR for training to cut training costs, improve workplace productivity and have a happier workforce.

Here are 10 reasons your organization should use VR in training:

·         Engages learners with a powerful sense of presence

·         Creates and replicates any product or environment

·         Enables valuable hands-on experience to trainees

·         Sets benchmark on how well trainees should perform

·         Offers cost effective solutions to train large workforce remotely

·         Runs scenarios otherwise unlikely to duplicate

·         Creates safe environment to replicate risky situations

·         Is reusable – set up different scenarios in the same setting

·         Backed by data and analytics, VR lets you quantify staff performance in training

·         Makes learning fun and enjoyable

Graph below shows learning retention rates for training conducted in different modes

Image Source: NTL Institute for Applied Behavioural Science

4 steps to integrate VR in your Training Programmes

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- MRCC Corporate Communication Team