{"id":243,"date":"2018-06-27T09:58:16","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T09:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.icomputinglabs.in\/blog\/?p=243"},"modified":"2018-06-27T09:58:16","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T09:58:16","slug":"4-ways-augmented-reality-change-corporate-training-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.icomputinglabs.in\/blog\/4-ways-augmented-reality-change-corporate-training-forever\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Ways Augmented Reality Could Change Corporate Training Forever"},"content":{"rendered":"

By 2020, 25% of the American workforce will be over the age of 55 and approaching retirement, a phenomenon becoming known as the Silver Tsunami. While this could create a shortage of skilled workers in a number of fields including electric utilities, telecommunications, and manufacturing, augmented reality (AR) is poised not only to address issues faced by our aging workforce, but to fundamentality increase productivity by changing how all employees are trained in the future.<\/span><\/p>\n

Not to be confused with virtual reality (VR), AR is a bleeding-edge medium that facilitates the overlay of digital information onto the physical world. In contrast with VR, which is a purely digital, hermetically-sealed experience in a headset that acts as an enclosure, AR usually leverages a transparent lens that adds layers of supplemental information onto the real world. Consequently, we can say that VR views the physical world as a distraction, whereas AR views the physical world as an asset.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2016, U.S. companies across industries spent nearly $1,000 in training per employee, largely delivered in traditional formats like classroom-based seminars and classes, and even online training modules that mimic that experience. This kind of learning has suited people\u2019s needs for centuries, particularly when learning was thought of as memorization with many cultures celebrating those who could recite long texts with exceptional rote skills. But as the breadth of human knowledge expanded, learning paradigms have changed with the works of John Dewey and others who recognized that understanding why information is important and how it relates to our world is true learning\u2014and should be the goal.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the coming years, <\/span>machine learning<\/span><\/a> and <\/span>augmented reality<\/span><\/a> will likely take both educational approaches to the next level by <\/span>empowering workers<\/span><\/a> to have the latest, most accurate information available in context, when and where they need it most.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here are four ways that digital reality can revolutionize corporate training:<\/span><\/p>\n