31Mar/22Off
Sexual harassment training is outdated. VR might be a fix.
... “It's one thing to verbalize and to tell somebody what something feels like or what happened,” said Morgan Mercer, founder and CEO of VR training company Vantage Point. “It's a completely different thing for somebody to be in that lived experience, to embody it and to feel the same thing.”
VR can't cross that chasm entirely, but it's a start. Studies tell a similar story: A PwC survey from last year found that VR learners felt 275% more confident in applying learned skills after training, as well as 3.75 times more emotionally connected to the content when compared to classroom-based learning. ...
See the full story here: https://www.protocol.com/workplace/vr-sexual-harassment-training
