In this assignment, I went the website, https://www.lynda.com, to learn more about VR and how it impacts the business world. The instructor, Craig Barr, mentioned some interesting facts. For example, the fact that there is now a lower barrier of entry for many people when it comes to buying a VR headset. Before, prices were a huge deterrent for a lot of people. Headsets will now become much more common. Data will become much more real, and a virtual world will help conceptualize all that information. VR will help increase production and design. VR will help test products in a virtual market. It will give the creator more ideas and more alternatives to understand how that product is received. Probably one of the most obvious methods of VR in business is marketing. Consumers will be able to interact with the products and producers can learn where their marketing efforts fall short. Training is huge nowadays when it comes to new hires and to get that next level of immersion would really benefit the new employee and employer. It would put them in situations that they may experience doing the job that they signed up for.

The professor later goes on to describe the problems that businesses may have trying to integrate VR into their industry or workspace. Some particularly interesting points made would be training. A lot of companies today do not have the time or the personnel to be able to educate everyone on how to use and integrate a VR rig into their sales pitch. The programs available would also be difficult to use because there are not that many options when it comes to tailoring specifically to the needs of a company. There is not enough effective content out there to justify investing all this time into a device.

Professor Barr ended his talk by offering a prediction and a thought. He said that VR is becoming much more useful in the workplace on a week by week basis and that with this new technology boom we should expect great strides in the future of VR and business, " We are seeing hardware and software performance drive the advances in this exciting technology. VR is leading up the next wave of technology revolution". It is exciting and interesting to see where VR is going to take the business world next.

Course I viewed: https://www.lynda.com/CAD-tutorials/Welcome/574683/632927-4.html?srchtrk=index%3a2%0alinktypeid%3a2%0aq%3aVirtual+Reality%0apage%3a1%0as%3arelevance%0asa%3atrue%0aproducttypeid%3a2