Walmart deploys Oculus Go headsets to train its employees

Re:Walmart deploys Oculus Go headsets to train its employees by wongarsu on Sunday September 23, 2018 @01:16PM (#18052039)

I don't think it will help much in teaching math or anything else that can be easily learned from a textbook. But you can't learn plumbing or operating a crane from a textbook, and here VR has great potential.

It might also be great for teaching science, since VR can communicate scale much better than drawings.

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Re:Walmart deploys Oculus Go headsets to train its employees by cheeko1234 on Sunday September 23, 2018 @02:34PM (#18052440)

I agree that for most of advanced math, VR won't help, however there are a lot of mathematical concepts that are easier to grasp when visualized.

https://savkar.math.uconn.edu/calculus-3-visuals/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T647CGsuOVU https://www.reddit.com/r/visualizedmath/top/

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Re:Walmart deploys Oculus Go headsets to train its employees by lostapathy on Sunday September 23, 2018 @06:40PM (#18053702)

If you don't have access to a good teacher, a VR session to a remote teacher could be a game changer.

At my high school somebody asked the calculus teacher why he was the calculus teacher and not another teacher. "We drew straws and I lost so I went to the training".

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Re:Walmart deploys Oculus Go headsets to train its employees by curuinor on Sunday September 23, 2018 @04:10PM (#18052904)

STRIVR already has some construction and factory line contracts. We started from sports.

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