VR Training Expands to Make Collaborative Education Relevant to all Workers and for all Skills The ROI of this tech investment changed during the pandemic as many organizations reevaluated virtual reality platforms. Training in virtual reality environments always made sense for certain specialized … [Read more...]

Duolingo Embraces Gamification of Learning Ahead of IPO While Robinhood pushes back against any suggestion that it is deliberately gamifying investing, another company about to go public — language-learning app Duolingo — is placing its gamification skills front and center. Why it matters: … [Read more...]

SalesScreen Expands Its Gamification Platform Allowing All Employees to Root On Their Sales Team Supporter provides cross-department transparency and more connection between teams to foster company-wide camaraderie. NEW YORK, NY, US.  -- SalesScreen, a sales gamification company who for the past … [Read more...]

Dallas-Based Arcade Raises $4.5M Seed Round to Expand Its Incentivized Gamification Platform for Sales Teams Arcade believes engaged sales teams provide better customer service and sell more. Its proprietary approach is based on an SaaS solution that intelligently gamifies the workplace—focusing … [Read more...]

Assessing Extended Reality's Potential VR and AR still mystify some integrators, but advocates say the potential of extended reality (XR) solutions is staggering. Want to dig for cultural artifacts in Egypt? Teleport to the Rocky Mountains for ecology class? How about drawing in three … [Read more...]

Rocksmith+ Adds a Mobile App and Workshop to its Guitar-Learning Game Play the ol’ six string... Ubisoft is bringing back its guitar-learning game Rocksmith as a subscription service, called Rocksmith+. Revealed during today’s E3 Ubisoft Forward, Rocksmith+ leaked a little ahead of the show … [Read more...]

Gamers Find Community, Appreciation For Agriculture In Farming Simulator Harley Hand often starts his day by getting in a combine and heading out to one of his fields — but it’s not a real combine, field or farm. He is one of several people who make a living playing the game Farm Simulator and … [Read more...]

Implementing a Successful Game-Based Learning Program for Corporate Training Since the beginning of this decade, we’ve been experiencing a digital acceleration that has forced us to rethink corporate training. With the COVID-19 pandemic pushing everything online in a matter of months, the need to … [Read more...]

How Mark Barlet Created a Movement with Ablegamers Mark Barlet has 25 years of hands-on experience in the tech and assistive technology field. An injured veteran who left the Air Force in 1996, he became trained in assistive technology and supported hundreds of people with disabilities. In 2004, … [Read more...]

How the Pandemic is Accelerating Industrial Applications of AR and VR It’s no longer unique or insightful to point out that the pandemic has accelerated a number of societal trends that were already in motion. That list of trends includes the move of augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) … [Read more...]

Reulay Announces Results From Study of Virtual Reality Interventions for Workplace Stress and Anxiety NEW YORK - Reulay, a virtual therapeutic platform using machine learning for stress and anxiety, has announced exciting results. A study conducted by a multibillion-dollar health insurance company … [Read more...]

Farmacy is getting into virtual gaming. By the end of June, the farm-to-face beauty brand plans to launch a virtual game called “Farmacy Beauty Lab” on its website. Through the game, users learn about individual ingredients, formulations and Farmacy’s corporate social responsibility partnership … [Read more...]

Gamified Training Gives Accountants Fun Whodunits to Solve Continuing education courses can sometimes put accountants and tax professionals to sleep, but a new breed of e-learning is making the process more enjoyable and engaging. Accounting and tax education provider Surgent recently added a … [Read more...]

10 Ways Virtual Reality Will Impact The Future Of Advertising Virtual reality is not a new technology, but it has steadily gained momentum over the last few years. The size of the VR market is expected to grow exponentially by 2024, and recent advances in the world of gaming have helped it make its … [Read more...]

Moven and LemonadeLXP Partner to Help FIs with the Human Side of Digital Transformation Moven announced today that it has entered into an agreement with LemonadeLXP, Inc. to help FIs support staff and customers as they migrate to digital banking. Holding the only US patent for financial … [Read more...]

Unlocking the Power of Marketing With Gamification: LiveHive Launches an Innovative Platform to Help Small to Medium Size Businesses to Tap Into the Booming Mobile Gaming and Ecommerce Markets Easy to access and set up, LiveHive's unique SaaS platform solution combines the power of gamification, … [Read more...]

MySize Combines Fit Tech and Gamification With the Launch of its New Avatar Technology MySize merchants can also offer an avatar solution that displays the product on a body type that mirrors their own, in a gamification of the retail experience – another growing trend in e-commerce. Using the … [Read more...]

Architect Brings Design to Life with Virtual Reality Using 3D Building Models Architects Kirkland Fraser Moor (KFM) are pioneering the use of Virtual Reality (VR) to bring to life design processes and stakeholder consultations. Using VR based on a 3D building model created by aerial mapping company … [Read more...]

7 Applications of Augmented Reality And Virtual Reality In Real Estate The advent of immersive technologies such as augmented reality and virtual reality has revolutionized several industry sectors and real estate is no exception. Advanced applications of augmented reality (AR) and virtual … [Read more...]