Self-author 3D and VR learning

About

Overview: Trainingscapes is a service which lets you create and share 3D and VR immersive training exercises throughout your organisation. A key innovation is Trainingscapes’ has an easy-to-use editor which lets trainers and subject matter experts create their own training exercises on any topic, at any level.   Trainingscapes exercises can be accessed by employees and customers in a variety of ways. As well as using ordinary PCs, exercises can also be accessed from smartphones and tablet computers, and if you have access to Oculus Rift they can even access the exercises in VR – and we have access to Google Cardboard and other VR headsets coming soon. Once an exercise is downloaded it does not need Internet access - so you can even use Trainingscapes on site, on the bus or on the train!   Trainingscapes lets you create learning and training exercises for employees, customers and other learners which put them in a relevant location so that they better understand the context of what they are learning, and use the rich visual and navigation cues help them to better remember what they learn. ​ Trainingscapes can be applied to almost any sort of training. Over the last decade we've delivered 3D immersive learning exercises covering disaster management, hospital procedures, home care, workplace psychology, employment training, customer services training, basic skills, laboratory equipment skills and even accounting and finance! ​ The key to Trainingscapes is that we have separated the technically challenging task of 3D location building from the pedagocically creative task of exercise creation. We expect very few trainers to have the skills to create 3D locations, but 3D artists are easy to hire in (and we can always help!), and once a location is published on Trainingscape almost any of your tutors should be able to use the 3D editor to drag-and-drop objects (we call them props) around the location, and use our forms-based PIVOTE virtual learning authoring system to create rich and diverse training experiences. ​ Once an exercise is created a trainer can assign it to a class or cohort of students (be they employees, customers or other learners), and the students can potentially access the exercise from smartphones and tablets as well as from a PC or Mac. The environment has been created to be as safe as possible for students, and for corporate IP, so trainers can define what avatars they can use, what exercises they can access, and in multi-user mode the students will only see the students from their own class/cohort. ​ By immersing your students in their learning you can give them the chance to better understand context, to develop more agile approaches (this is a long way from a tick-box eLearning exercise), and to achieve better recall and attainment when it comes to practically applying the knowledge and skills they have learnt.   Trainingscapes is a product of Daden Limited. Daden have been working in 3D immersive environments for over 10 years, specialising in immersive training and learning, natural language and artificial intelligence, and 3D data visualisation. ​ We work on the basis of 3D then VR. Whilst we love VR we're also realists, and we know that it will be a long time until everyone has access to VR, and even then there a lot of use cases (sat on the sofa, on the train, in a busy office) where using VR just won't be practicable. But you can get a lot of the same benefits by using a 3D application with your ordinary computer, tablet or smartphone. So you don't have to wait for VR, starting using 3D now, and just step up to virtual reality headsets when you want to.   See www.trainingscapesvr.com for more info.