Learning 4.0: Live Collaborative Learning in Virtual Reality

对公司来说，派员工参加面对面的培训课程一直很昂贵（支付差旅费、场地租金、住宿等费用），对员工来说也很耗时（前往场地和远离办公室工作的时间），现在由于Covid-19也带来了健康风险。在一个向远程工作和远程学习转变的世界里，我们关注学习的未来，以及如何利用新兴技术促进更有效、更高效的学习。我们的目标是在虚拟现实（VR）中创建一个协作式远程培训工具，使员工能够从世界任何地方参与现场培训课程，并为组织提供详细的ROI指标。培训师和受训者将在家中戴上VR耳机，进入VR培训课程，在那里他们将沉浸在逼真的虚拟环境中，如会议室、演讲厅和新闻发布会。他们还可以将自己的演示文稿和笔记上传到会议中，接收即时的人工智能反馈以及同行评审的反馈，培训师/经理可以通过我们的分析仪表板（这是预先构建的后端并与我们现有的产品一起使用）监控他们的进度。鉴于大多数学习和发展培训都是面对面进行的，其中大部分至少在2020年已经取消，我们的工具旨在帮助企业过渡到远程培训方法。我们可以与中小企业合作，帮助他们适应（并生存）这个新的学习世界，也可以与在内部培训员工的大型组织合作。最重要的是，员工仍然可以以一种有效的、体验式的方式参加对他们个人和职业发展至关重要的培训，这种培训的存在感只能通过VR来复制。

Sending employees to in-person training sessions has always been expensive for the company (paying for travel, venue hire, accommodation, etc.) and time consuming for the employee (travelling to a venue and time away from office work), and now there poses a health risk due to Covid-19 too.In a world which is shifting to remote work and remote learning, we are focused on the future of learning and how we can use emerging technologies as a catalyst for more effective, efficient learning.Our objective is to create a collaborative, remote training tool in virtual reality (VR), which enables employees to participate in live training sessions from anywhere in the world and provides organisation with detailed metrics for ROI. The trainer and trainees would put on a VR headset from their homes, and enter a training session in VR, where they would be immersed in realistic virtual environments such as meeting rooms, a lecture theatre, and press conference. They could also upload their own presentations and notes into the session, receive instant AI-powered feedback as well as peer reviewed feedback, and trainers/ managers could monitor their progress through our analytics dashboard (which is pre-built backend and used with our existing products).Given that the majority of learning and development training is conducted face-to-face and most of this has been cancelled for at least 2020, our tool aims to help businesses transition to a remote training method. We can work with SMEs to help them adapt to (and survive) this new world of learning, as well as with larger organisations who train their employees in-house. Crucially, employees can still attend training that's essential for their personal and professional development, in an effective, experiential way and with a level of presence that can only be replicated using VR.