START Centre completes VR training scenario project for Calgary company

Lethbridge Polytechnic's Spatial Technologies Applied Research and Training Centre completed a VR training scenario project for a Calgary company.

Lethbridge Polytechnic’s Spatial Technologies Applied Research and Training Centre has completed a virtual reality training scenario project for a Calgary-based company.

Taleo Project Services partnered with the START Centre to create different project management training scenarios to reshape their clients’ learning experiences.

The two-year project produced three fully interactive scenarios that will be used in project management certification programs.

The scenarios are designed to bring energy and engagement to personal and professional development.

“Taleo made a decision to actively reinforce and encourage young people to learn more about project management,” said Laurel Sim, Taleo president.

“We chose virtual reality to engage them and entice them to learn a little bit differently.”

“When you’re in that immersive environment, it embodies that learning, and so through the interaction and through being in that experience, it’s like doing it in the physical world, but it allows you to do it in a risk-free, safe environment that allows you to do it over and over again, which reduces costs and increases learning opportunities,” said Tyler Heaton, Lethbridge Polytechnic START Centre research adviser.

The START Centre hopes to see this kind of virtual reality used in other industries such as agriculture and health care.