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Improve Trade Show Engagement with Virtual Reality

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Virtual reality (VR) is a great way to leave a lasting impression on attendees at your next trade show booth. Not only does it provide an interactive experience, but it also helps to create hype and excitement for your product or service. With there being so many brands trying to create a name for themselves at a trade show, conference, or exhibition, it can be difficult to stand out. VR is a great marketing tactic to help improve your booth engagement and retention. Here are a few things to keep in mind.

Stand Out Amongst the Crowd

Standing out amongst the many other brands at a trade show is crucial for brand recall, post-event. Integrating a fun and interactive experience such as virtual reality will help increase foot traffic to your booth and engage and retain attendees at your booth.

Implement a Virtual Reality Demo

Implementing and integrating a VR experience at your trade show booth is an excellent way to attract attendees walking by. A virtual reality demo provides an immersive space for attendees to engage and interact with your product or service in a true-to-life experience.

Tell Your Brand's Story

With a VR storytelling experience, attendees can genuinely connect with your brand’s story and mission, vision, and values to promote retention for your product or service.

Create an Immersive Virtual Reality Experience

Virtual reality creates a space where attendees can fully immerse in the product or service offering, learn how it works and understand the story behind it, all with a hands-on experience. This immersive environment offers a unique experience to help boost engagement in a cost-effective and timely manner.

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Are you ready to improve trade show engagement with virtual reality? Vernon offers a variety of VR rentals to keep your attendees intrigued and captivated while at your booth. Click here to learn more about our VR rentals or click here to talk to one of our rental experts today!

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Virtual Reality: Enhance Your Classroom Learning

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Educators are avidly looking for innovative ways for learning to be transferred easier, swiftly, and effectively. In today’s digital world, we can adopt technologies into the classroom to help students grasp curriculums in engaging and imaginative ways.

Virtual reality can be used to positively enhance student learning and engagement. “VR education can transform the way educational content is delivered; it works on the premise of a virtual world – real or imagined – and allows users not only see it but interact with it. Being immersed in what you’re learning motivated you to fully understand it,” (Adobe, 2019). Virtual reality provides a hands-on, immersive learning experience while engaging all the senses: allowing a student to watch, listen and interact.

Top 10 reasons virtual reality will help enhance your classroom learning experience:

  1. Travel to and explore new places all over the world without leaving the classroom.
  2. Develop empathy for communities in crisis by stepping into their shoes.
  3. Experience different careers first-hand.
  4. Explore the depths of the ocean and the vastness of the space
  5. Time travel to key events and places from the past.
  6. Explore within the human body.
  7. Allow students to share their world with others by creating their own VR content.
  8. Discover how VR can be used in other industries like medicine, engineering, entertainment, and real estate.
  9. Explore how VR can be integrated into every subject area and curriculum.
  10. Promote curiosity and wonder!
Source: Maria Galanis & Andrea Trudeau

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Virtual Reality for Team Building

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Are you looking to strengthen your team’s relationships and collaborative working process with a fun activity? Well look no further! Virtual Reality (VR) is a great opportunity for employees to engage in an immersive experience while building stronger working connections. In addition, VR also helps to focus on team success skills such as communication, teamwork and problem-solving. Wherever your employees may be stationed—in-person, hybrid, or remote—everyone can participate while using this interactive piece of technology!

Examples of Virtual Reality Team Building Exercises

VR offers a variety of exercise activities that touches on everyone’s interests. Here are a few examples to engage your employees:

  • Pictionary – A charades-inspired drawing and guessing game with time limits.
  • Scavenger Hunts – Race against the clock as teams search for items scattered around a virtual world.
  • Escape Rooms – Solve puzzles with different levels of complexity to unlock the key to escape the room.
  • Employee Training Courses – Team members can work together to learn new skills necessary to complete their roles.

VR Advantages

VR is a cost-effective way to strengthen your team’s internal core! As an alternative to spending costs on transportation, accommodation and other expenses on traditional team-building events, you can bring this technology right to your office or off-site location.

But does VR really help with team building? According to a 2021 PwC article, VR learners are 275% more confident to apply skills learned after training and are 3.75x more emotionally connected to content learned from VR.

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VR is a fun and exciting way to bring out everyone’s fun side while gaining positive team working skills. Are you ready to boost your team’s success with the power of VR? Click here to learn more about our VR rentals or talk to one of our rental experts today!

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The Benefits of Using VR in the Workplace

A VR headset is a device that provides a virtual reality experience for the user. Virtual reality headsets are popularly used for video games but can also be used for simulators and trainers. Many think this device can only be used for gaming-related purposes—but think again! With the integration of technology use in the workplace, there is a push for the use of innovative technology to enhance work environments, employee productivity and team building. Read below for ways to incorporate virtual reality into the workplace.

Onboarding

VR can be used to make the onboarding process more fun and interactive. This will help to improve employees’ positive perspectives on their job and the organization they work for. VR can also provide a virtual experience for what their job may look like. This can help attract more qualified and desirable candidates.

Safety

VR can provide a safe space simulation for workers to engage in. For example, VR can help train first responders in helping them to resolve dangerous situations without putting their lives at risk. This technology will allow the workers to evaluate their mistakes and learn to cope with real-life events.

Productivity 

VR allows employees from different departments of the business to collaborate in a virtual space from anywhere. The virtual space further provides a platform for teams to work and complete projects in a quick timeframe while reducing travelling and hardware costs.

Team Building

VR provides employees with the opportunity to engage in unique immersive experiences while allowing them to build stronger working connections from remote locations. VR team-building exercises focus on essential team effectiveness skills such as communication, collaboration and problem-solving. These exercises can range from Pictionary and Scavenger Hunts to Escape Rooms.

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2021 Technology Trends

Technology is constantly evolving at a rapid pace. Staying current with new advances, development and adoption of new technologies is important for both business and personal aspects. COVID-19 has proved that we must adapt to technology changes in our everyday lives, whether it be working remotely or online learning.

Keeping up to date on the latest technology trends allows you to remain relevant, stay competitive and promote opportunities within the business world. “Staying current with new technology trends means keeping your eyes on the future to know which skills you’ll need to know to secure a safe job tomorrow,” (Nikita Duggal, Simplilearn, 2021).

The top nine new and trending technologies for 2021 are as follows:

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Robotic Process
  • Edge Computing
  • Quantum Computing
  • Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality
  • Blockchain
  • Internet of Things (IoT)
  • 5G
  • Cybersecurity

New technologies are always emerging and evolving. These nine technology trends offer valuable skills and knowledge that are necessary for future careers. Are you staying current with the latest trends?

For more information about the 2021 technology trends, read the Simplilearn article, Top 9 New Technology Trends for 2021.

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Talk to one of our rental experts today to create a true-to-life immersive experience at your next event.