Excerpt of the article "More Than A Game: How Extended Reality Is Transforming Worker Training" by Maria Flynn, originally published on Forbes, August 21, 2024.
"In industries including health care, manufacturing, and skilled trades, XR technology is increasingly used as an anytime, anywhere tool that offers training simulations and skill development. Most importantly, it offers solutions to barriers that many workers face like location challenges, physical space needs, instructor time and individualized attention, and the availability of practice materials (especially those that are expensive).
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Solutions providers are also using XR to address health care training challenges. JFFVentures portfolio company Embodied Labs, for example, offers VR simulations so that health care workers can experience what it’s like to navigate a doctor’s appointment as a person with vision loss, or move into a residential community as a person with symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease. The company has even created end-of-life simulations to help hospice caregivers build a sense of empathy for the experience of patients with terminal diagnoses.
“I was skeptical at first,” one hospice professional told NPR. “But once I went through it, I realized what a viable method it could be, for not only teaching but also helping people understand [the] end of life better."
