Interactive virtual reality applications have huge potential for businesses and corporations looking to streamline their processes, reduce overall training and training costs, start using VR, or all of the above. Businesses today are already realizing the advantage of VR and we are happy that we, VR Education, have all the tools for VR training such as VR/360° professional video production and just a programmable, customized interactive VR app.
It is important to note that the method chosen for VR training will vary from project to project. Some things are simply better suited to professional VR video production and others to interactive VR applications. And it’s interactive VR apps that we’re going to talk about today, discussing their benefits, approximate price range, and use in practice. Interactive VR apps are the most effective use of VR for training.
The benefits of an interactive app in VR
Education is a never-ending process that we all go through on a daily basis. Companies never stop educating and developing their employees. Employee development means the development of their personality and consequently the development of the company.
Virtual reality offers us many advantages over traditional training in a factory or training room. Participants can really experience the training and thus learn all company processes more effectively. We mention here the advantages that we find essential:
- The most effective training
We can probably agree that training skills, whether soft or hard, is a major component of any job. Simply put, every worker needs to learn certain skills in order to do their job safely and reliably. Virtual reality and especially the interactive applications we create for virtual reality allow us to truly experience training. VR has a huge added value just in the transfer of emotions, you put the VR goggles on your head and in 5 minutes you believe what you are experiencing in the goggles. The most common use of interactive applications in VR is just training.
- Unlimited repetition, time efficiency
If we can properly preserve certain content for employee training, it is then easy to use the material at every opportunity. Again, this is a big advantage of interactive VR applications. In short, you have created the training in VR and now you can have as many people trained as you need. Does the employee need to go through the training again? It’s easy, he just puts on the goggles and looks at the chapters he missed to remember them. In this case, the HR person doesn’t have to waste time „tutoring“ that person, but can go about their business and everyone’s time is used efficiently.
- Maximum enjoyment
An interactive virtual reality application allows you to engage with the training session in question, letting you experience the entire training. Dare I say, this style of training becomes not only effective, but in a way so groundbreaking that coaching and training becomes something your employees will want to undergo with a smile and some enjoyment.
- A new level of participant engagement
It is the interactive applications in VR that allow you to interact with your environment and be able to manipulate things. You can actually train with both hands, take objects in your palms and use many gestures to manipulate objects that we situate together in virtual reality. Our clients always choose the tools that they have in their company, and participants can still train „on their machines“ from the factory.
- Muscle memory
A very rare use for interactive applications in VR is muscle memory. This is a benefit that e-learning or boardroom training can’t possibly give you. By making training in a virtual application interactive, the participant can interact with their surroundings and actually learn the movements with their whole body. Such training is many times more effective as muscles have memory and if you do a training 10 times, your muscles will remember it.
- Collaboration
The very name of the interactive application in VR implies that we can interact not only between objects and virtual environments, but also between our other collaborators. Thus, we can implement a collaborative training in virtual reality where our small team of 6 people meet, where we can visualize our ideas, share folders, documents, have the opportunity to write down information and above all draw on the possibilities that virtual reality offers us.
- Impossible scenarios become possible
Thanks to our interactive application in VR, we are able to make even an almost impossible training session into a realistic concept for you. This benefit will be used by companies that want to simulate a challenging situation like a fire alarm, which we admit comes out better done in virtual reality than training with a lit factory. In short, virtual reality has no limitations, so we can work together to come up with a concept that will be effective for you and turn the impossible into reality, the virtual one of course 🙂
- Big cost reduction
Considering a large factory where 900 people work and 30 of them at the same machine, they undergo training twice a year in Germany. The cost of such training is astronomical. In this case, it is worthwhile to do interactive training in virtual reality, where we can simulate training on a machine that employees normally travel abroad to use or have to stop the entire production to train new employees on that machine.
Interactive applications in VR and their use
The VR interactive app combines various interactive elements to make your product a real experience in VR! We are able to use 360 video, 2D videos, 2D and 3D images, graphics, sound, test questions and many other things that can take your app to another level of learning.
The use of interactive apps is as follows:
- Training
As we have already discussed, training is the most used of all in interactive VR apps, combining muscle learning, high efficiency, participant engagement and maximum training experience. Training can be seen as training new but also existing employees on specific company processes. The training even can include test questions on the participant, where at the end of the training an analytics will come out on how much % the person has completed the task, where exactly he/she made a mistake and what he/she could improve.
- Occupational Health and Safety
Interactive applications in VR allow to increase the interactivity of training in a very real and fun way. An employee could experience how easy it is to start a fire and what it is like to put it out (if they can do it at all).
Overall, VR makes the employee more immersed in the whole issue in a very natural and non-violent way. So they really take something away from the training and it wasn’t just wasted time in the boardroom.
- Training on the conveyor machine
Machine-specific training is a very popular variant of interactive virtual reality applications for companies. This type of training focuses on training for one specific machine in your company, for example, one that has the highest employee turnover or that needs to be shut down so that employees can be trained on it.
- Cooperation
Collaboration is a topic we touched on with the benefits of interactive applications in VR. Collaboration is a very powerful thing when used in the right way, and VR can indeed do that. The most common use of collaboration apps are virtual reality meetings, VERY popular for large teams around the world. You can implement a collaborative meeting in virtual reality where you can see, hear, and interact with the environment and objects in the room.
- Explicit Project
By the term explicit project, you can imagine absolutely everything that we haven’t written about here. By giving VR unlimited possibilities, we are able to realise almost any kind of bespoke project. Whether it’s a VR reconstruction of an exhibition for a museum or a painting in a team for better visuals, we are able to realize any customized assignment upon agreement.
Price level of interactive applications in VR
Now that we know the benefits and uses of interactive applications in virtual reality, we can tell you the approximate prices that will help you better visualize the product and the overall processing.
Prices are based on the size of the job and the overall complexity of the job. On average, we are able to deliver an interactive VR application in ~ 1 month from the approval of a given assignment by the company. We always insist that the training given has the greatest added value for the company or corporation.
We are able to deliver an interactive application that will serve as a training for one specific process in your company around ~ 150 000 CZK excluding VAT.
An interactive application that will serve as a training on a specific process and during the training will collect certain data, will also give control questions to the participant (so that the training will be a comprehensive output), can be around ~ 300 000 , – CZK without VAT.
An interactive application that will serve as a training on multiple processes in the company, will include an analytical part of the training, where we are able to collect data on the success of the trainee and will include explicit training tailored to the client’s requirements can be around ~ 500 000 CZK without VAT.
Summary
Virtual reality is exactly the tool we have been missing to train and coach at a level that was not possible before. More and more demands and requirements are being placed on companies, and therefore on their employees. But if we don’t start with training, the whole economy will grind to a halt, because people simply cannot survive in the age of the internet, virtual reality, artificial intelligence or machine learning thanks to traditional methods such as pencil and paper.
Just as all technologies are moving forward, led by the IT sector, we need to start bending education towards efficiency. Virtual reality is exactly the tool that will allow us to do just that. Sooner or later, companies will have to adapt to this trend as competitors will be using this type of education to become more efficient. We believe that VR will surely be an integral part of every company’s training.
Interactive applications in VR are the way to Education 4.0. By using these apps, you will enable your employees to continuously improve and push their boundaries, while reducing your costs and injury rates. Your company will be using virtual reality too, you just don’t know it yet.
If you’re interested in learning more about interactive applications, simply contact us and we’ll be happy to show you what interactive applications we’ve implemented and how they could work for your company!
