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In the recent article Bringing Virtual Reality Into Your
Business, Harvard Business Review states that
VR might be the most promising enterprise technology organizations can adopt
today.
“VR is growing rapidly as businesses recognize its potential to help
them grow. And the pace of its technological development positions it to
transform industries, not just tomorrow but starting today. VR’s contribution
to the GDP is valued at $13.5 billion globally in 2019, according to PwC, which
anticipates that figure reaching $450.5 billion, and supporting more than 23
million jobs worldwide, by 2030. Given the rapid global adoption of remote-work
practices in the wake of the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic, that rate of adoption
could happen even faster and more widely than expected.”
The many advantages and use cases for VR are already clear to
industries such as manufacturing, construction, and transportation, among
others. VR technology can help reduce or eliminate both the costs and risk by
placing employees in realistic and immersive virtual environments.
Founded in 2016 as a Michigan-based startup building eye-popping,
photo-realistic training solutions for industry verticals including
construction, manufacturing, energy and utilities, PIXO VR is passionate about improving safety and
performance in organizations, designing AAA game-quality,
licensable Virtual Reality training modules.
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Fall Protection VR Training Module Benefits: Quick Start Training, Inspect Your Equipment, Practice Proper Procedures, Experience Consequences
Here are some statistics that haunt the construction industry:
42% of all construction deaths involve falls
23% of those killed didn’t use a fall arrest system
20% of construction deaths occur within the first two months on the job
These stats, specific to construction falls, (the leading killer among
the so-called “Fatal Four” construction site accidents — falls, electrocution,
caught-in/between, and struck-by-object), is just one example that illustrates
why better construction training solutions are desperately needed. Each of
these statistics point to a lack of appropriate training, as well as the
imperative for more effective and realistic methods.
On-the-job training, the most common practice, can be effective in a
narrow way — people often learn best by doing something. However, by itself,
on-the-job training is clearly insufficient based on the hundreds of
preventable fall-related and other kinds of deaths that occur each year. Not
only it insufficient, it often introduces all kinds of additional safety,
productivity, cost, and liability issues.
In contrast to the real-world, Virtual Reality can give you that
on-the-job training experience — without the risks. PIXO VR
believes that there are several benefits to VR training that are probably
pretty intuitive to the construction domain — things like improving the safety
of instruction, creating more realistic and job site-specific environments, and
allowing for unlimited practice at no additional cost.
For more information please visit PIXO VR