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4 Ways In Which Augmented Reality is Transforming Training with Immersive Experiences.
How is AR helping businesses train their employees? When you want to buy a shirt, you go to stores and try on the shirts you like. When you want to buy a house, you go and visit the flats or apartments and choose the one where you can live. Or what if you are at a place and you see a coffee table which you like and want to buy, but instead of just imagining, you want to see how it will look in your room. But what if you can do all this in the comfort of your own home without having to move out anywhere. What’s the catch? Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality applications make it possible. These sibling technologies, AR and VR are the latest trends, and everyone gets super excited while talking about them. With this fantastic growth, the AR market is expected to hit $70-$75 billion in revenue by 2023. The question here is How Augmented Reality helps in the training of employees? This article is here to answer your question. But before we begin with ways AR and VR development solutions are transforming training with immersive experiences, you must ask yourself “do you know what exactly is AR?” If the answer is yes, great! Else, here is a brief about Augmented Reality.
What Is Augmented Reality (AR)?
Let us discuss this with an example. We all are well aware of the mobile game Pokemon. It has over 1 billion downloads. In this game, we can see virtual Pokemons on our phone screens with a real-world background. This is what Augmented Reality is. It is a blend of real and virtual (computer-generated) worlds. We have to provide a real-world entity with the help of our phone’s camera, and this technology adds or ‘augments’ some more virtual layers to it. Now, technically speaking, Augmented Reality or AR is an interactive experience of a realworld surrounding. It enhances real-world objects by computer-generated perpetual information. So by now, you are well aware of the technology and so let us move towards our next section, and that is “use of Augmented Reality.”
4 Ways Augmented Reality Is Transforming The Training Industry. Augmented Reality is changing the game, not just in classrooms or eCommerce but in the online training industry as a whole. We can see it this way, that AR mobile apps deliver real-time information fixated on physical objects that simplifies the process of understanding and consuming information. Here are four ways, let us discuss them all. 1- AR applications are helping train medical staff: In medical science, Augmented Reality is playing a vital role in the training of the staff and has found its way in the most sensible practices of all times. In future, more doctors will be trained with Augmented and Mixed Reality than actually dissecting human bodies. And it seems legit. We can take the case of AccuVein here. Accuvein is an AR-based imaging application that helps doctors get a skin-deep view of their patients veins. Doesn’t this sound amazing? Well in the near future, it will be a common thing to see whenever you’ll visit a doctor. Such training methods will also help in scaling medical training to a large number of students. Also, the in-depth details by which the training will be provided will help in extending the quality of medical services to a whole new level. If you own a business that deals with medical stuff, you must hire AR app developers and come with an application that no doctor could deny. Investing in future technologies is required at this point in time. 2- Augmented Reality helps in manufacturing training: In almost every manufacturing industry the training is given to the employees in workshops. None of them gets it right the first time hence contributing to waste generation and also these training costs a lot to the company.
Now imagine with the help of VR and AR apps, the trainees can get hands-on training of manufacturing that too in detail. The perks are, lesser waste and one-time investment, i.e., only for consulting a software development company in India and getting your personalised training software built. At the BMW production academy, BMW has started training its employees with the help of AR goggles. These goggles provide visualisation of engine assembly, and they can interact with these visuals. Another cool factor about these goggles is they can quickly get the feedback from trainers and help trainees perform better.
(source) 3- Augmented Reality has changed the education industry: With AR and VR apps in classroom education, the education game has changed. For instance, kindergarten kids are the toughest to handle. What if they get a technology with which they can interact and learn? Similarly, for high school kids, some concepts are difficult to remember. What if you as a business come up with an interactive mobile app solution which has AR incorporated in it? It will help the students and also will lift your business. Currently, 88% of mid-sized companies are already using Augmented Reality in their work. Why are you left behind? 4- Augmented Reality helps in integrating gamification and virtual training features: As per neuroscience research, the AR experiences deliver almost double, i.e., 1.9 times the levels of engagement as compared to their non-AR equivalents. The memory retention is nearly 3 times. AR keeps the user at the centre of the experience. It uses our physical location as its primary component extending our version of reality with digital content. Like the start of enhancing the virtual events with the ideas taken from games such as Pokemon Go.
This gaming-inspired approach also can transform training into augmented gamified learning that can be deployed as virtual events. This enhances the ways of learning and helps trainees gain and retain better.
Final Words: Augmented Reality does extensive job training in diverse fields such as the ones mentioned above. AR and VR based mobile applications will become the modes of educating future generations. Training, until recently, was accomplished through texts, visuals, elements like images. With the innovations and changing trends in Augmented Reality, interactive learning has come a long way. If you own a business and want to train your employees with the help of advanced technologies, then get in touch with AR development companies in India. Only an expert can help you with the best solutions. Cheers!
