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AR Meets HR: How Augmented Reality Can Strengthen Learning & Development

AR’s Real-World Applications in L&D

With this data in mind, it’s exciting to see how widely the applications of AR can vary in a business. Here are just some of the ways we’ve been seeing innovative learning professionals integrate AR into their employee offering:

• Onboarding - Onboarding is critical to ensuring new employees are given the most effective introduction to their new working environment. Of course, the quality of onboarding has lasting effects on both retention and the business itself, particularly in terms of making speed to competency as efficient as possible. As such, businesses have gradually been utilizing AR to reinvigorate the often all too familiar onboarding process - turning to immersive experiences to make them more engaging and memorable. In addition to creating a strong first impression, it’s empowered teams to re-purpose their existing printed materials to minimize waste, turning physical assets into portals which new employees can access with the device most important to them - their smartphone.
• Simulated Interaction - Sometimes the toughest part about a job that involves direct interaction with customers is being able to prepare confidently for difficult scenarios on the shop floor. AR empowers employees to simulate common customer interactions directly in the context of their work area using their smartphone - particularly with AR’s ability to leverage interactive alpha video content without the potentially awkward baggage of employee-to-employee roleplays. By being able to replay and repeat realistic scenarios at their own pace, it enables employees to develop their confidence for the real thing.

• Supporting Specialized Positions - Factory workers and production line employees often have unique jobs that are highly specialized that require significant hands-on experience. AR is enhancing training for these roles by providing a high level of process visualization that can reduce risk and increase confidence in the employee. By adding a digital layer of guidance directly to the equipment they will be using daily, AR experiences mean employees can increase competency in context without the associated risks.

See the full story here: https://www.hrtechnologist.com/articles/learning-development/ar-meets-hr-how-augmented-reality-can-strengthen-learning-development/