Ilse Kleiberg

VR Sync license

To synchronize the VR experience at your event you need a VR Sync license. You can get a free trial, but this is only active for a week and has a watermark on it.

Content

Before your event you need to decide on what the goal of the VR experience is. Do you want to introduce a new product, tell your corporate story or is it a tool to attract an audience? Whatever your goal is, you need to make sure you have some good 360° footage. You can either create your own 360° content or let a VR agency create it for you. It is also possible to buy 360° content or watch existing 360° content on YouTube. You should choose whatever matches your goal.

Extra options

VR Sync offers additional features besides synchronised playback. You can add subtitles, a branded welcome room, spatial audio and you can send messages to users while they are in VR.

Bear in mind that you need an internet connection to use VR Sync. If you have no access to the internet at the location of your event you can use the VR Sync box. This is a local network that can run on any location.

Once you have decided on the choices above, you are ready to make VR Sync completely ready for your VR Event.

To start your synchronized VR experience, perform the following steps:

1. Install the VR Sync application on your chosen devices.
2. Enter your unique pin found on your dashboard and link your devices to your account.
3. Upload your 360° content on the dashboard of VR Sync.
4. Manage and control your devices on the remote page of the VR Sync dashboard.
5. Check the connectivity of your devices as well as the battery status.
6. Perform a test by playing your content via the dashboard. Check to see if your 360° works well in VR and if all additional features are added.

Once you have performed these steps and have tested your VR experience, you are ready for your synchronized VR event. All that is left to do is to press on the play button and monitor what people are seeing using the VR Sync remote control. Stay in control of the event using VR Sync and enjoy an effortless VR experience.

Ready to start your synced VR event? Check out our different licenses!

VR based trainings put the user in a 3D environment relevant to the subject matter where anything can be (re)created. VR trainings have been used by companies, academia, and military for a long time and can be relevant for any party looking to train or educate. With VR you can place your trainee in any real-life situation where they will begin to respond as if they are in that situation. This allows trainees to acquire information relevant to the job, but they can also start practicing their skills right from day one.

Walmart is a great example of a company which already trains with VR. Andy Trainor, senior Director of Walmart U.S. Academies says the following  about their VR training: “We can create scenarios that may never happen (like severe weather training) or situations that happen all the time, but we don’t want to disrupt our stores to give associates firsthand experience. VR lets them explore these sorts of scenarios in a firsthand way.”

Another example is Clever. They used VR to create a real-life like simulation for garbage trucks to train their workers. METRO has also used VR to bring their trainees to a virtual METRO store using VR.

In one of our previous articles, we already explained the benefits of using VR for your onboarding process. These benefits also apply to VR training. In short, VR training can recreate real-life scenarios with immersive video and audio. Trainees can train in high-risk work environments without the actual risk. Therefore you can use VR to train employees both safely and efficiently.

Furthermore, research shows that memory retention after a VR experience is 2x higher than after video- or text based learning materials. It also creates consistency within a company. With VR trainings you don’t have bad days where you forget to cover several points or where you don’t have the right tone or message. You can create the best version of the training just once and use it to deliver a consistent training.

For the people who are not yet convinced of the strength of VR for training (even after reading the above mentioned benefits), we have collected a few examples of companies that have successfully used VR for training.

1.  A Modular Interactive Virtual Surgical Training Environment

Summarized: Surgeons who had a VR training for 2 hours improved their time on task by 83% and were more than 70% “more efficient” in movement and measurements.

2. Virtual memory palaces: immersion aids recall

Summarized: Participants of the study that were trained with VR  demonstrated a 9% better information recall and made 41% fewer errors than those trained via non-VR.

3.  Measuring Virtual Simulation Value in Training Exercises

Summarized: Study includes data from 29 different training events that featured both live and VR training components. The training value assessment results show that VR trainings provide the same value as live training, but for reduced costs.

These are not only great examples of VR trainings, but they also clearly state the benefits: improved memory recall, performance, and even reduced procedural errors.

When you train your trainees in VR it would be best to train them all at  the same time. It is more efficient and can reduce the training costs. VR Sync can offer you this.

With the VR Sync software you can upload your own 360° content and push it to an unlimited amount of devices. You can manage your content easily using the dashboard. Start, pause, and stop the experience with a simple click on a button. It is a user-friendly software that keeps you in complete  control of the experience.

Ready to start your synchronized VR training? Check out our trial version!

Walmart is the leader when it comes to VR training. They have rolled out their VR program to roughly 4,600 stores to help train more than 1 million employees. This has lead to great success and rising test scores. The reason why VR is such an effective training tool is because VR enables companies to stimulate real-life scenarios with immersive video and audio. This helps new employees to become familiar and comfortable within the environment prior to being thrown into it.

This is especially relevant for future employees that will work in high-risk work environments, like firefighters. By using 360° and VR content, you can create experiences that will teach your new employees to identify potentially dangerous situations. Through this method you can quickly bring your new employees up to speed both safely and efficiently.

It is hard to keep someone’s full attention. Especially on someone’s first day they can get distracted by all the new things they see. With VR you are much more likely to maintain the engagement of the viewer as you are in control of the content your employees see with their VR headset. In addition, research shows that memory retention after a VR experience is 2x higher than after viewing video- or text-based learning materials. UPS has seen their retention rate climb to 75% since adding VR.

One of the reasons is that human memory is anchored and made stronger by multi-sensory and emotional input. In VR people are “present” in the moment which increases emotional responsiveness and therefore memory retention.

Human beings are inconsistent, which can get in the way of presenting a consistent image of your company. Training your new hires on a bad day can lead to not covering all points, rushing through, not giving the right tone or the right message to your new employees. By transferring onboarding to VR, you can film the best version of the process just once and use it to deliver a consistent message.

If you ever experienced well-made interactive VR content you know how engaging it is. This engagement is a great way to excite new employees and to stand out from the crowd. In a research, 49% of millennials said they want a better onboarding experience and 82% said high tech offices will influence their opinion of their new job. In addition, 58% of global millennial workers prefer high-tech in-office perks such as VR and AR over free snacks and ping pong tables.

VR offers many intriguing possibilities for businesses today. You can present using vr can help your company stand out, improve onboarding, and save time and money in the process. If you want to make your onboarding even more efficient and easier, you can use VR Sync. This software allows you to show VR content to multiple people at the same time!

Ready to start your VR onboarding?