SDD108 Virtual Reality Technologies & Tools For You!
5:15 PM - 6:00 PM Tuesday, March 26
Expo Hall: Design & Development Stage
Virtual reality technologies offer innovative ways to enhance our ability to perceive the world that surrounds us. With the focus being on the learner experience, VR offers new opportunities to organizations that implement this learning approach into their training toolkits. This session explains how to create an effective VR learning game, from a corporation that has built from them from the ground up.
Learn what it takes to make an effective VR learning game or simulation, from start to finish. This will describe the processes taken by Designing Digitally and their clients, through the use of the HTC VIVE and the Oculus Rift. We will share the effort it took to develop out a project from beginning to end, and review multiple case studies and virtual learning experiences. This will also discuss the current understanding of VR, and how long until it is fully adopted by L&D professionals.
In this session, you will learn:
- The difference between spatial 3-D VR and 360 video VR
- What it takes to implement VR in your organization
- How to produce a VR project
- What it costs to do VR
- What it takes to create a VR project
- What tools to use for VR
- Why VR is going to continue to dominate the industry
- When not to use VR for training
Technologies discussed:
Oculus Rift & Go, HTC VIVE, VR games, VR simulations, case studies of VR learning games
Target audience:
Novice designers, developers, managers, senior leaders
Andrew Hughes
President
Designing Digitally, Inc.
Andrew Hughes is the president of Designing Digitally, Inc. and has over a decade in the strategical planning and development of enterprise custom gamified learning solutions for government and Fortune 500 clients. Andrew is also a professor at the University of Cincinnati and prior to this was a contractor for the US Department of Education, Ohio Board of Regents, and General Electric. Andrew oversees a team of 30 employees and is focused on ensuring the clients’ challenges are met with engaging, educational, and entertaining learning experiences.