[strictnein]

Interesting, I pitched VR training as part of a hackathon at [my very large employer] who offers platforms for employee training and onboarding. One of the studies I cited during my presentation was on VR surgical training [0], showing that it decreased surgeon error. I lost to a multiuser wiki document editor (think Google Docs, but less exciting). Because that's a huge market for a multi billion dollar company. No, I'm not bitter... sigh

Another was how Siemens was able to reduce training times for oil rigs by significant periods [1] using VR tech.

> "Architecture is another field that is seeing rapid adoption of VR"

My architect is going to bring over a SketchUp model of the work he has planned on our house and I'll be loading it up with some software for the Vive [2]. He doesn't usually do that final step, but he's very interested in trying it out.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1422600/

[1] https://www.siemens.com/innovation/en/home/pictures-of-the-f...

[2] https://www.kubity.com/

[mattnewport]

Cool, we're in discussions with a major medical school to run a study to compare performance after training with one of our modules vs traditional training materials.

Even outside of studies that specifically look at VR there is a lot of research into general learning, training and education that tends to support the hypothesis that VR will be a powerful tool for this type of application.