XR in Learning and Development (S1E2)

Soft skills education market is expected to grow 12% annually between 2021 and 2025. VR/AR and AI are a major driver of this growth allowing to create learning environments with an unparalleled level of immersion. Imagine you can train presentation skills in front of a virtual crowd, practice coaching with a virtual coachee or even expand your empathy and explore cognitive biases in a safe simulated environment. 

Hard skills learning is another chapter in this fast changing business environment where positions and jobs evolve and change faster than never. Employees are required to quickly “re-tool” with new fundamental and mandatory job skills (safety, job training, onboarding…) and develop more individual skills. How can AR/VR help us improve quality, efficiency, and impact of such occupational learning and development programs? 

Let’s explore together what are the pros and cons of such approaches,  what is possible already now and what can you expect in near future.

Why should I watch the episode?

This episode will provide guidance on the L&D journey leading to the inclusion of VR and AR in soft and hard skills training, be it for your personal development, or for L&D specialists and leaders looking for ways how to continuously and efficiently develop new competencies within their organisation. 

We will show you why spending some money on XR training is worth considering as (a) part of your strategy. You’ll hear from experienced professionals in the field and have a chance to take part with your own questions and opinions in the interactive parts. 

What will be my take-home value?

1. To understand how XR can be used for employee training, learning, and development of both hard and soft skills.
2. Practical use cases and inspiration on what to try on your own.
3. Continue working with our VR scorecard assessing where’s your organization at.
4. An urge to see next Futurescope episodes.

Who are the hosts?

Luboš Malý

Luboš Malý has tried various roles from process engineering, through managerial roles up to global transformation projects. As an Innovations in Operations Director at the LEGO Group he focuses on utilisation of exponential technologies for making toys for the future generations of kids and adults. He co-founded the RedButton network whose purpose is to cultivate the environment in Czech and Slovak companies. Finally, he’d like to support sustainable shopping by the earthnest project. The marketplace directly contributes to Sustainable Development Goals by the UN. He changes organisations to organisms, employees to entrepreneurs and hierarchies to communities in his activities while connecting distant worlds of Virtual Reality, Robotics, Additive Manufacturing or Digitalisation with a sustainable and playful approach to work.

Martin Holečko

Martin Holečko is a visionary passionate about exploring how converging exponential technologies rapidly and profoundly change our lives and inspiring others to use them wisely to improve the world around us.

Currently Martin leads Future Port Prague, an international futuristic conference and festival focusing on exactly that. Since 2017, it has become a leading Central European gathering of innovators, enthusiasts, and leaders with 10k+ annual attendance.

Back in 1997 Martin co-founded Etnetera, today a group of hi-tech companies reinventing their clients‘ businesses for the digital age. He was also at the birth of VRgineers in 2016, the world’s leading producer of high-end VR headsets for professional use.

Martin’s secret weapons are imagination, creativity, and the ability to excite and lead others towards a bold vision. He is most inspired by inspiring others to dare to think big.