Virtual Reality Goes To Work, Helping Train Employees
NPRVirtual Reality Goes To Work, Helping Train Employees Enlarge this image toggle caption Courtesy of Strivr Courtesy of Strivr Virtual reality — long touted as the next big thing in tech — hasn't taken off as a consumer product, but employers are embracing it as a more efficient and effective tool for on-the-job training. Because things look and sound as if they were real, the brain processes virtual reality as though it were a real experience, says Stanford communication professor Jeremy Bailenson, who also founded the school's Virtual Human Interaction Lab. "This crazy thing happens when guys get in the VR — usually within 10 minutes, most of them start to sweat," despite the fact that they're barely moving in real life, Shaw says. "The goal isn't somehow to make people unbiased, which I don't think is possible; the goal is to make you aware of your biases," he says.
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