Virtual Reality Training is the digital simulation of lifelike scenarios for training purposes. Trainees enter a 360°, active learning environment, experiencing sights and sounds that dissolve the barrier between virtual and actual reality. Using the headset and controllers, trainees look, speak, and move about freely in a 3D virtual setting, interacting with simulated real-world tools, machinery, and other trainees and instructors.  

Critically, with Virtual Reality, workplace scenarios that were once too difficult, expensive, or dangerous to train for, (such as emergency protocols and disaster preparedness, hazardous material spills, realistic heights training, etc.), become vastly more practical, cost-effective, and safe in an immersive simulation.  

When combined with story narratives and learning curriculum developed by subject matter experts, the result is trainees learning in the best way possible — through personal experience — significantly improving learning retention, job performance, team collaboration, workplace safety, and cost. ​

The effectiveness of Virtual Reality Training (or any training, for that matter), depends on the quality of the training being offered. Research shows four critical things are needed for any successful training experience, virtual or otherwise: realistic practice, spaced repetitions, contextualized scenarios, and critical feedback. ​

As experiential learning, Virtual Reality is delivering out-sized benefits for enterprise training programs, including: 
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• Improvements in job performance of 70+%
• Dramatic reductions in on-the-job human errors
• Increases in learning retention of up to 80%
• 40-60% reductions in time needed to train compared to traditional training methods
• Elimination of the cost and risk of unnecessary travel
• Enhanced team decision-making, workplace safety, and collaboration
• Inclusive of all four major learning styles, (Visual, Auditory, Reading/Writing, and Kinesthetic)