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Engineering News reports that virtual reality (VR) has hitherto been primarily associated with the gaming industry, but as rates of digital penetration rise and the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) increases the demand for new skill sets, the technology is also becoming a mainstream business and skills-development tool.
Passive learning and memorisation have featured prominently in the past, but according to management consultancy Accenture, the modern workforce is increasingly attuned to a more active approach whereby employees learn through practical experiences with the aid of tools such as VR. As an experiential learning method, VR has the potential to increase learning quality and improve memory retention by up to 75%. The technology provides a fully immersive three-dimensional experience, during which employees gain hands-on experience in a safe and controlled virtual environment that closely replicates the real-world environment in which they will work. This has proven particularly useful in the SA mining industry, which continues to face safety challenges. Data science and technology implementation firm Business Science Corporation (BSC) points out that there is increasing movement towards using VR in employee training and education, with the mining, telecommunications, financial services and retail industries leading the pack in terms of adoption and implementation.
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