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Walmart Employees Say VR Training Helped Save Lives During El Paso Shooting

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Employees claim active shooter training helped them respond faster to the situation. Earlier this month, a deadly mass shooting took place at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, claiming the lives of 22 individuals and injuring 24 others. Image Credit: Bonnie Arbittier, Rivard Report. “I’ve I’ve done it myself.

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Jeremy Bailenson talks about 1,000,000 Walmart employees training with VR, presence, and the VR “empathy machine”

The Ghost Howls

I have been able to speak for almost one hour with Jeremy Bailenson , which is the professor at Stanford that is a legend in the VR field for his studies on interactions, psychology, and training in Virtual Reality. on immersion and presence , or somewhere in that nature (I might be off by a single point). I believe R squared is 0.33

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Houston Fire Department on VR’s Potential to Enhance Firefighter Training

Road to VR

Patrick Hagan is a technical specialist for the Houston Fire Department who had an opportunity to try out a VR demo by HTX Labs featuring an active shooter critical response training scenario. SEE ALSO Training to Craning in 60 Minutes: Putting My VR-learned Skills to the Test with a Real 22 Ton Crane. Support Voices of VR.

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Creating Immersive Learning Experiences

Tech Trends VR

The benefits of using immersive technologies as teaching tools have been widely documented and extensively discussed, specially in recent years with the rapid development of Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed reality hardware and applications. The post Creating Immersive Learning Experiences appeared first on Tech Trends.

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How to Use Virtual Reality (VR) for Healthcare Training

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One of the more popular use cases for VR in healthcare is training. The ability to simulate different scenarios, from an immersive first-person perspective, is very compelling. Like with other VR for Training programs , we’re hearing about better retention of information and post-training performance.

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Traveling Halo Fan Experience Will Feature Competitive Location-Based VR

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Available as part of the tour, Halo: Training Grounds puts visitors in the boots of a UNSC Spartan, an elite soldier enhanced by both mechanical and biological augmentations. They’ll then fight alongside two other teammates in a 3v3 combat training environment designed to hone your skills as Earth’s most badass fighting force.

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Training to Craning in 60 Minutes: Putting My VR-learned Skills to the Test with a Real 22 Ton Crane

Road to VR

Last week, I traveled to the Houston Area Safety Council in Pasadena, Texas, to put Industrial Training International VR’s new crane simulator through its paces. While ITI has been training crane operators, riggers, and signallers for 30 years, the inclusion of VR in their training programs is a recent development.

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