Immersive technology is no longer a technology of the future. It has already taken the hot seat in workplaces. The potential of Immersive technology-driven workspaces is increasing with new opportunities explored and utilised. Technological advancement naturally leads to increased availability of educational resources paired with enhanced practical features, allowing learners to access courses from any place at any time according to their needs. Hence, the learners no longer depend on traditional training modules or physical trainers. Immersive learning leverages technologies such as virtual reality VR, AR, MR, and XR to facilitate learning by simulating real-world scenarios, which in turn creates a sense of presence and immersion in the learning process, where it allows learners to interact with virtual objects and environments, allowing them to learn and practice in a safe environment.
With Immersive technology, Corporates can expand the possibilities to optimise their business needs in different dimensions, which includes the amalgamation of immersive technologies and workforce training. The future workspace has already set in for the employees to be in a space full of ‘immersive experiences’ with new forms of communication and collaboration in the workplace as organisations evaluate advanced training tools and new skill sets that employees must learn. The update of workforce learning with immersive technology comes with myriad benefits, including risk reduction, cost savings, emotional stimulation, memory retention, reduced staff training time, and increased contextualisation.
Immersive technology shapes workforce interactions through intelligent tactical immersion, sight immersion, and narrative immersion that create a sense of strong engagement, recall, and connection with the users while allowing businesses to develop tech-driven creative immersive experiences that permanently impact their learners.
Giving a real-life immersive experience to the workforce has made its way into all sectors – education/training/manufacturing/medicine, and more. Using mixed reality creates possibilities that fulfil the expectations to the maximum. Now is the age of transformative workspaces with technologies like Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, Extended Reality, and all these engaging worlds.
Extended Reality (XR) is technologically transforming the user experience of learning by aligning with creative instincts through the natural extension of reality by adding digital equals. XR will become an integral part of the future workspaces for meetings, learning, and collaboration, combining virtual and physical experiences. Businesses are ready to spend on immersive learning as they uplift user experiences and learner efficiency. Visualisation has gone to new heights with AR visualisation, Metaverse, 3D and other Virtual Reality technologies that transport the learners to a parallel realm where they interact in a superficial universe in which their imagination is brought to life!
Corporates are leveraging immersive tools for reskilling and upskilling their employees, exponentially increasing learner engagement, fostering active learning and longer retention, and ensuring permanence in the acquired skills.
Immersive Technologies will continue to enrich the learning environment and how businesses function. Adopting a blend of these immersive technologies with suitable pedagogies will augment learning and empower the workforce with more profound knowledge and skills to excel. Now it’s time for businesses to absorb the next big thing in the immersive world to create far-futuristic things responsibly with a sense of greater good.
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https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/voices/the-importance-of-immersive-learning-in-upskilling-corporates/
