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Episode 226: Creating VR Workplace
Training Programs for People with
Disabilities
Episode Link: ​http://workology/ep​2​26-wp
Intro: ​[00:00:00.15] ​Welcome to the Workology podcast, a podcast for the disruptive workplace leader. Join host
Jessica Miller-Merrell, founder of Workology.com as she sits down and gets to the bottom of trends, tools and case
studies for the business leader, HR and recruiting professional who is tired of the status quo. Now, here's Jessica
with this episode of Workology.
Jessica Miller-Merrell: ​[00:00:26.12] ​One of my favorite emerging trends right now is the topic of virtual reality and
its application and use for the workplace, specifically in the areas of employee training, development and learning.
This year, Walmart is expected to train more than one million employees, all with virtual reality. In their virtual world,
cashiers are taught to show greater empathy, mechanics learn to repair planes and retail workers experience how to
deal with armed robbery. But VR isn't just limited to employee training. There is so much potential in other areas,
including skill development. I wanted to highlight how VR is being used in this area, specifically in providing job
training and skill development for people with disabilities. This episode of the Workology podcast is part of our Future
of Work series and is powered by PEAT, the Partnership on Employment and Accessible Technology. In honor of the
upcoming 30th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act this July, we're investigating what the next 30 years
will look like for people with disabilities at work and the potential of emerging technologies to make workplaces more
inclusive and accessible. Today, I'm joined by Chris Baumgart and Megan Little.
Jessica Miller-Merrell: ​[00:01:40.67] ​Chris is an assistive technology specialist. He has worked in the community for
people with disabilities for over 14 years. Chris has been working to provide services for people with intellectual
developmental disabilities with Imagine since 2006. While working as a DSP and later in management, Chris
established himself as an innovator for developing age appropriate content for adults using augmentative and
alternative communication devices before transitioning into the role of a system technology specialist in 2011. Since
then, he has continued to work to provide assistive technology solutions that allow people increased independence
and agency through multiple environments in their daily lives. Specifically, he focuses on providing people the tools
they need in their homes, at day programs, or in their vocational environments. Also joining me on this podcast
episode is Megan Little. Megan has been working to provide services for people with intellectual and developmental
disabilities with Imagine since 2014. In this time, Megan Little has established herself as an innovator for developing
adaptive environments for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. She is now the assistive technology
program supervisor for Imagine and leads a team of assistive technology instructors at Imagine in their adult
community and employment services.
Jessica Miller-Merrell: ​[00:03:03.26] ​Welcome to the Workology podcast, Chris and Megan.
Chris Baumgart: ​[00:03:06.89] ​Thanks so much, Jessica. It's good to be here.
Megan Little: ​[00:03:09.32] ​Thank you so much for having us.
Jessica Miller-Merrell: ​[00:03:11.21] ​Let's start with Chris. Tell us a little bit more about your background.
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Chris Baumgart: ​[00:03:14.93] ​So I started working with a company called Imagine here in Colorado. It's a company
that provides services for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities here in Boulder and Broomfield
counties. I started about 14 years ago working as a direct service provider. And as I was getting, working my way
through management, I also found that there were a lot of individuals that we were serving who were using
communication devices, and a lot of the content that we were seeing was actually more oriented toward children. It's
an interesting trend that we've been seeing in education recently. Special education, the assistive technology
specifically, it's really blossomed in the last several years, which has been tremendous for our education system. But
there are a lot of adults who've already gone through this system that don't have, that didn't have access to a lot of
that. And so I started modifying content to make it more adult oriented toward our adults in aging populations. And
that sort of blossomed into the position that I'm in today.
Jessica Miller-Merrell: ​[00:04:06.08] ​What about you, Megan? What's your background? And tell us a little bit about
Imagine Colorado.
Megan Little: ​[00:04:12.2] ​So I am, as you said, Assistive Technology Program Supervisor. I started off as a DSP for
Imagine in the Community and Employment services. And I got really interested in assistive technology when I
attended one of Chris's classes. He actually joined the class and I learned a lot from him and from there, I’ve kind of,
like developed more interest in assistive technology. And because Chris was the only person within Imagine providing
those services, I thought it would have been a great idea to look at creating a position within my department to
support that. And so I moved forward with that and Imagine approved it. And then from there, now I supervise a team
of six AT members at our Longmont and Lafayette location. And we've seen much success with that. In terms of
Imagine, Chris kind of covered some of it. We serve a population of individuals, about 4000, between the Boulder and
Broomfield Counties. We serve between adults and children within our services with individuals with cognitive and
developmental disabilities.
Jessica Miller-Merrell: ​[00:05:16.25] ​Well, welcome. Welcome. I'm excited to dive more into this topic. We have had
several podcasts on, podcast episodes on the Workology podcast that have talked about virtual reality or VR and how
they can be used in the workplace. Can you talk to us about the applications for virtual reality and maybe how you
guys work within those?
Megan Little: ​[00:05:39.14] ​We have, I guess society has always seen VR as a gaming purpose and Imagine really
took the opportunity once we started a partnership with Reality Garage in Boulder, Colorado, to look at the other side
of things and kind of use virtual reality as more of a learning opportunity and to support individuals in problem solving,
job development skills and just building educational learning skills. And so from there, we started creating a class on
Tuesdays with Reality Garage where individuals would go and utilize virtual reality equipment and test it out and kind
of work on mainly Oculus equipment. And then from there, we talked to them about our interest in really expanding it
and kind of looking into how we can relate this to one of our current job work sites. And so we talked about our Left
Hand Brewery that we work out of, and we had a partnership with them for about 20 years now, and how we thought
it would be a great opportunity to start implementing virtual reality to support job training. And so from there, we
brainstormed with them to create this virtual reality so that individuals could learn the tasks before actually going to
the work site and see that’s something that's beneficial for them to do. And if not, then how can we support them with
better job training and getting used to the environment before actually going there?
Jessica Miller-Merrell: ​[00:07:04.88] ​Let's talk through a little bit of this in more detail. You're using virtual reality to
help individuals develop job skills. What does that look like for the individual? And kind of how does that work?
Chris Baumgart: ​[00:07:17.99] ​So there are a lot of interesting aspects to this. One of the things that we ran into,
even before we started looking into VR as an application for teaching, and I’ll let Megan talk a little bit later about
some of the trials that she's experienced in teaching. But one of the things that we see a lot of in this industry is
there's always a staffing shortage, right? There are always more people in need of services than there are people
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available to provide those services. So when teaching, if you're teaching someone one on one, it's very easy to see
whether or not they're demonstrating successful completion or a successful acquisition of a new skill. The moment
that you start removing that one on one element, you know, you start looking at video tutorials or photographs, picture
prompting and things like that. Those are all very effective and useful tools. The challenge is there's no way to
essentially gauge whether or not someone is demonstrating the ability to learn a new skill. A great example I use is if
I set you up with an iPad and I've got pictures or videos of how to perform a task like brushing your teeth, just as an
example, there's no feedback mechanism to determine whether or not that person actually brushed his or her teeth.
Chris Baumgart: ​[00:08:29.63] ​For all we know, that person just went Play, Skip, Skip, Skip, Skip, Skip, went
through the whole thing. Of course. All done. One of the great things about virtual reality is you actually have that
mechanism built in for someone to demonstrate that skill in real time. So we thought that we would take that a step
further and start looking at vocational skills. And so what we ended up doing is, we've basically, I say we, and I mean
a big shout out to Reality Garage because they did all the hard part. They actually built for us a virtual Left Hand
Brewing company, which is one of our business partners that employs a number of individuals with disabilities. And
so in that, they actually can perform the actual task of what that job would entail. And as Megan had mentioned, even
before they get to the job site. So it gives them an opportunity to get a feel for what the job looks like. And it also
gives us an opportunity to gauge how prepared they'll be for the job and whether or not they'll need more support
before they get to the job site.
Jessica Miller-Merrell: ​[00:09:30.49] ​Awesome. Well, what are some things that you guys are seeing in terms of
making VR accessible? I know this is the challenge right now, and we've talked about it a lot in our other podcast
episodes. But what's working for you guys?
Megan Little: ​[00:09:43.47] ​So one of the things that we found really beneficial is using the Oculus Quest. The
reason why we went with Oculus Quest is because the controllers are easier to hold for individuals. We have had
some troubles with the buttons. But overall, it's wireless and it supports our individuals in a better setting. The
headset fits really well. So that's been one thing that we found to be very beneficial for a lot of our guys. And then
we've also been using CoPlay on SideQuest to help with accessibility and so that we can see what they're doing and
support them in the training experience. And then lastly, we've been kind of working on the hands-free kind of
controllers and the, the beta testing for that. And I actually signed up for being one of the individuals to test out the
hands-free equipment and give feedback to Oculus on it. We have been using some of the SideQuest preloaded
games to experience, you know, playing a piano or something like that and testing out how the hands-free works with
individuals, or like pressing play on a game or something like that. And that's been successful. But there's still quite a
barrier there in terms of supporting our individuals. We've also had some individuals only use one controller because
they have limited mobility in their other hand, and they're actually still able to do the task, which also demonstrates
that they're able to do the job at the actual work environment, too, which was something that was kind of not seen
before and they kind of were left behind. We didn't think that they were able to do that job task, but because we were
able to demonstrate it with the VR first, this is giving them the opportunity to actually work there.
Chris Baumgart: ​[00:11:23.73] ​If I might just speak a little bit more to CoPlay and SideQuest that Megan mentioned,
just in case people aren’t aware of what those things are. So I want to back it up just a little bit. One of the big
challenges with virtual reality and using it as a tool to teach people is if you're wearing the headset, I can't necessarily
see what you're seeing. So that can be really challenging for me. And it's really interesting as we started this process
to see how often we as facilitators would be pointing to, pointing something out to individuals. Oh, so you need to go
ahead and go right there. Oh, right. You're wearing a headset. You can't see me, nor can I see what you're seeing.
And so this CoPlay, it's actually, it's a mechanism whereby you can actually open up any web browser if you have
permissions, and you can actually see an unrendered version of what that person is seeing. So that as a facilitator, I
can say, OK, so now what you want to do is you want to go ahead and look up, and say, to your left or to your right or
wherever it is, whatever, I can describe the next target if I need to or anything like that. And that's been a really
valuable teaching tool for both us and for the people that we serve.
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Jessica Miller-Merrell: ​[00:12:39.4] ​I want to go back just a second and have Chris or Megan explain to us what
Oculus is. I am assuming you mean Oculus and it's a Facebook product. Right. But for those maybe that aren't
familiar with the Oculus headset, walk us through the pieces that are involved or kind of what the feel is like.
Megan Little: ​[00:13:00.89] ​So the Oculus Quest is developed by Oculus, which is owned by Facebook. And with
Oculus Quest, it's actually a wireless headset. So there's no cords or anything connected to it. And the controllers are
also wireless. The controllers have a circle around them and then a handle down below, and there's buttons
underneath and on the side. And what's nice about those features is that they don't have to use any of the buttons on
the, like, interface of the controller. So like most controllers have like X, Y, A and B, and they don't have to use any of
those, at least for our experience and a lot of the experiences that we support with individuals using. They only have
to use the side buttons, which is easier accessibility for them to press something or grab something in the experience
that they're kind of testing out. And in terms of the headset, it's nice because it goes over, it can go over your glasses
as well. So you don't have to worry about taking off your glasses. It fits really well on individuals’ heads and you can
tighten it as needed. And the other feature that's really nice about Oculus Quest is you can kind of make a border of
your play area and if you step outside that border, you actually are back in reality. You can see, you know, the room
that you're in, who's standing in front of you, everything like that so that you don't run into anything. And it takes you
out of the experiment so that you're also safe.
Jessica Miller-Merrell: ​[00:14:32.65] ​Awesome. Thank, thank you for that. Because I feel like for people maybe that
aren't familiar. And I'll try to post a photo of what you might expect and what this particular Oculus Quest system, I
guess, looks like for those of you who are unfamiliar. And you can go find that over on Workology.com and we'll have
that under the podcast section for you.
Break: ​[00:14:55.0] ​Let's take a reset. This is Jessica Miller-Merrell, and you are listening to the Workology podcast.
Today we're talking with Chris Baumgart and Megan Little about using VR to train and develop employees. This
podcast is sponsored by Workology and is part of our Future of Work series in partnership with the Partnership on
Employment and Accessible Technology or PEAT. The Workology podcast Future of Work series is supported by
PEAT, the Partnership on Employment and Accessible Technology. PEAT’s initiative is to foster collaboration and
action around accessible technology in the workplace. PEAT is funded by the U.S. Department of Labor's Office of
Disability Employment Policy, ODEP. Learn more about PEAT at Peatworks.org. That's Peatworks.org.
Jessica Miller-Merrell: ​[00:15:47.02] ​Your focus with this program has been in the hospitality industry. Why have
you chosen to start there?
Megan Little: ​[00:15:53.19] ​We've chosen to start with the hospitality industry because a lot of the work that we do
with individuals or support individuals with, is within kind of that realm of work environment. And so we started with
the Left hand Brewery company because that is one of our hardest worksites. Individuals make mountain mixers. You
might see them if you’re in a store, Left-Hand Brewery mountain mixer. And they have to take four different kinds of
beers and put three of each kind into a box. And then when they're done, they put it on a conveyor belt and then it
goes down. At the end of the shift, iIf there's two of one beer and three of another beer, they have to unpackage
everything and then repackage it making sure that it's correct. It's not an ideal process, but because of our staff ratio
to client ratio, it's hard to support every individual to make sure that they're doing it correctly. So the reason why we
went with creating the work environment here is to help with those skills and to support with errorless learning within
the process. And I’ll let Chris talk more about errorless learning because he’s kind of an expert on it.
Chris Baumgart: ​[00:17:05.35] ​Sure. Thanks, Megan. I can talk a little, I don't know about expert, but errorless
learning essentially in a nutshell, is the idea that we shift the onus of learning from the student to the teacher. So in
older classical models of teaching, if you as a student failed to acquire a new skill or to learn a new, I don't know, idea
or concept, that was a failure of the student to learn. What we’re actually seeing with a lot of success, and this is after
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decades of research, is by shifting the onus of essentially a successful skill acquisition to the teacher, what we end up
seeing is a lot more success. There's a gentleman I like to quote. He certainly didn't discover errorless learning, but
he definitely became sort of one of the main, the primary champions of errorless learning. His name is Murray
Sidman, and he states that learning may not be a trial and error process for the pupil, although it may be for the
teacher. He also goes on to say, the reality of errorless learning shifts the responsibility of learning from the pupil to
the teacher. So the proper study of learning becomes the study of teaching. And so we've seen that in the general
education system, that's also been very effective and even more so when teaching in special education or working
with individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. So one of the interesting things about errorless
learning is it's kind of novel trying to translate that into a virtual reality experience. But the essence of it is that we
want to provide a supportive opportunity for people to learn skills without the frustration of doing things incorrectly. So
what we did for this virtual reality experience specifically, we follow a very specific and prescribed hierarchy of
prompting, going from least to most support.
Chris Baumgart: ​[00:18:57.97] ​So essentially what you see is if someone does a skill independently, of course, no
prompting required, great. From there, in the virtual reality world, you've got environmental prompting and you'll see
this a lot. You see, you know if there is something in your view, in your experience, that you need to interact with. A
cup you have to pick up, an object you have to place in a certain spot. You'll see these little arrows that are pointing
to it, or the item will illuminate in some way or you'll see a target area. And those things are environmental problems.
And they're very common in the digital world. And from there, we escalate up to verbal prompting, if someone still
needs a little extra support to complete a task. And then from there, it gets a little bit more interesting. So you've got
pointing, modeling or gesturing prompting. In this case, in the virtual reality experience, a video pane pops up with me
actually physically demonstrating the task that needs to be completed. And finally, beyond that, if you still need that
level of support, you actually will experience essentially a greyed out effect of all of the items in the room, with the
exception of the object that you need to interact with. What this does is it gives people the opportunity to be
successful every time. They will always complete the task, and we get to gauge how much support was required. So
it's less a matter of succeeding or failing. It's a matter of congratulations. You succeeded. It looks like right now you
still require more support than would be prudent for us to introduce you to the job site. So we'll keep working on it.
Does that make sense?
Jessica Miller-Merrell: ​[00:20:35.11] ​I like that. You're taking a customized approach that's unique for each
individual.
Chris Baumgart: ​Exactly.
Jessica Miller-Merrell: ​What are some challenges that you guys are facing or maybe that you faced working with
virtual reality?
Chris Baumgart: ​[00:20:45.25] ​Well. There are a couple. And one of them that I had mentioned previously, one of
the big ones that we didn't really even anticipate, was if I can't see what you're seeing, I don't know how to effectively
assist you. Or also when I am pointing. Oh, yeah. You need to, oh, your headset. Right over, right over there. Oh,
right. You can't see me. That's certainly a challenge. And there are also larger challenges and also some entertaining
ones. One of the things that I have discovered over the years is I'm always, always astounded by how creative people
can be at breaking the things that I build. And I mean, I don't mean physically breaking. What I mean is cheating the
system. Over the years, I have built many interactive activities to teach literacy skills and mathematics skills. And it's
always interesting to find when I go to work with individuals with disabilities and watch people smirk as they show me
how they cheated my game and then I have to go back and fix it. It's always a wonderful and creative challenge. We
actually experienced this with virtual reality as well. We had one individual who figured out that it didn't matter if he
knew whether or not the next bottle was going to be correct.
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Chris Baumgart: ​[00:21:59.3] ​All he had to do is reach toward the virtual bottles. And as soon as one highlighted, he
knew that was the one that he was supposed to take. So the sequencing element of that teaching was clearly
irrelevant because he was gaming the system. So challenges like that are always really fun and exciting. There is
another big challenge that we run into, and it's one that we always have to talk about because it is important. And
that's price point. Virtual reality experiences are going to be more expensive to create than, say, me shooting a two
minute video on my phone. And that's a reality that we do have to work with and address and realize that it's a real
thing. When we're talking about price point, though, there's something that's interesting to note, and it's sort of the,
the economy of scale of technology. So virtual reality technology has been around for a long time. And I'm not an
expert on this. I have presented with experts and I listen to them and they told me great stories. But essentially it's
been available for a long time. But prohibitively expensive. And the reason that we keep talking about Oculus is once
the Oculus headset was released, it came out at two hundred dollars, which by itself, 200 dollars is still, is still money.
But it's no longer this, you know, you need this five thousand dollar specific rig. It's a headset that's portable, it's
reliable, it's convenient, and it's 200 bucks. So we see that price point consistently coming down as more people
adopt. What we also see as more people adopt this technology is the sophistication in the technology and the
reliability. It's really important to note that with a lot of assistive technology solutions in general, outside of the general
consumer marketplace, fail points are a lot more frequent because usually you have small teams working on
something very specific, and that usually requires a lot of extra implementation of modifications to make it accessible.
All those things can introduce failure, which can increase frustration for facilitators and for learners alike. So while it is
expensive right now for us to build this very novel and new experience. Just like anything else, as more people begin
to adopt these experiences and start sharing those resources, the more accessible both from a cost standpoint as
well as a content standpoint, everything becomes.
Jessica Miller-Merrell: ​[00:24:29.49] ​Can we talk about other teaching styles that you've used with this program? I
want to give our listeners here who are employers a sense of the evolution.
Megan Little: ​[00:24:39.06] So ​some of the equipment that we have used in the past we’re still using. We use IPads
quite a bit to support with job training and everything. Like Chris said, we use visual cues or visual prompting videos,
stuff like that, to support individuals. The problem with that is that we don't see much engagement with it. So they'll
watch the video to do the task. But then when they get to the actual environment, they're actually still at the same
spot they were before they watched the video. Most individuals don't generalize information from the video content to
the actual work environment. Where when we've developed the virtual reality experience, we have seen a lot of
individuals be able to make that generalization and to carry that over into the work experience. So that's one that's
really developed for us. And then one of the other things for training is just our staff to client ratio. Again, you know,
within this field, it's hard to have enough staff to support each individual within the work environment. So it's usually
one to seven or one to six ratio. And the staff is also collecting data and might have to pick up a work pass within the
work environment, which leaves them able to support individuals within the site. So that has kind of been how we've
moved forward with the virtual reality and how we've seen, you know, where we started with how to prompt and
support individuals and where we're at now. And we do see this as being very successful in the future.
Chris Baumgart: ​[00:26:17.4] ​If I can add on to that just a little bit, when we're talking about teaching styles
specifically. One of the really interesting things that we've run into many times over the years is we have a lot of
individuals who receive services, who have been receiving services, if not their entire lives, then most of it. And sort
of relying on a human prompter, as it were, essentially relying on someone to direct them to say, OK, now it's time for
you to... this.
Chris Baumgart: ​[00:26:49.05] ​One of the additional challenges that we found in introducing some of these digital
prompting mechanisms, so your auditory problems or your videos or your photos and things like that, is a lot of
people have been essentially trained to rely so heavily on human intervention that even if I'm not, oh see, if I say: OK.
John, it's time to brush your teeth. John may say, OK, no problemo. If I record my voice on a device and it's my voice
saying in the exact same way: OK John, it's time to brush your teeth. John may very likely entirely ignore me because
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he's, essentially he's expecting the human me to say something. And so that additional disconnect can be really
challenging. Although what we've seen, rolling it back, the entire experience is so immersive. There's that internal
consistency. So people are more likely to respond to those prompts faster than they would or they're more likely to
adopt that idea of following those prompts than they would in some of the less immersive experiences, like the IPads
or, you know, photos or things like that.
Jessica Miller-Merrell: ​[00:28:01.35] ​As we look to the next 30 years of work, what emerging workplace trends or
technologies do you guys think will have the biggest impact on people with disabilities?
Chris Baumgart: ​[00:28:10.32] ​I have a hard time saying that I know what the next 30 years is going to look like. I
know that's what this podcast is about. One thing that I will say that I think that we're seeing is already becoming a
trend with a lot of potential is machine learning and augmented reality or smart glasses. I know we're all aware of the
big snafu of the Google glasses from years of yore. And there are a lot of people who speculate as to why they didn't
really take on the way that they did. But what we're seeing now is with machine learning, we can actually, essentially
use the tools around us to teach in real time.
Chris Baumgart: ​[00:28:48.82] ​I'm going to try to, I keep trying to visualize this and I'm clearly not accustomed to
podcasts. So when I stop using my hands, I start using my words. So in a virtual reality headset, you've got this
immersive experience, and that's great. One of the things that is still challenging is seeing how much of that still
translates into the real world. Right. For all of you geeks out there, how do we get this into meetspace? And that's still
a challenge for us. But over time, what we're looking to see is using, say, smart glasses. If I'm in an environment
where I have these virtual bottles that I have to package into a virtual mix pack and put on a virtual conveyor belt, and
that doesn't translate a hundred percent into the real world where I've got real bottles to package into actual mixed
packs and put onto an actual conveyor belt. With machine learning and smart glasses, what we're looking hopefully to
see is that the glasses could then indicate and essentially do the same kind of highlighting as an augment to the
reality that the virtual reality headset would provide in the virtual space. So you're wearing glasses in real world and
it's actually highlighting an actual object in front of you. And that's kind of what we're seeing that's going to trend. At
least I hope so. I think it's gonna be a really valuable trend if it does.
Jessica Miller-Merrell: ​[00:30:08.73] ​Well, guys, Chris and Megan, thank you so much for joining us today on the
Workology podcast. I wanted to ask you where people can go to learn more about you guys and the work that you're
doing.
Chris Baumgart: ​[00:30:19.87] ​Well, Jessica, thank you so much. It is such a pleasure to be here. So the company
that we work for, it's called Imagine and you can feel free to visit our website anytime at www.ImagineColorado.org.
We also have a YouTube page where you can see all kinds of fantastic videos, and that is Imagine Colorado. Megan,
are there other resources that we can send people to?
Megan Little: ​[00:30:43.71] ​It would be good if you want to check out the Reality Garage website as well and kind of
what they've done. I know they have a video on there of our Left Hand worksite to see how it’s created within the
augmented reality environment.
Jessica Miller-Merrell: ​[00:30:59.97] ​Awesome. We will include links to these resources and the podcast episode
over on Workology.com. And we'll have links to Reality Garage, the YouTube channel and a whole host of other
resources for you to check out and learn more about how to create virtual reality workplace training programs for
people with disabilities. Thanks again, Chris and Megan. I really appreciate you taking the time.
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[00:31:50.97] ​I love the work that Imagine is doing and how they are leveraging VR to provide current and future
employees with new skills and provide our businesses with new talent pools to tap into as our businesses and the
economy shifts and changes. The potential for virtual reality is limited only to our imagination and ability to step
outside those normal job training and skill training programs. These are things that we're familiar with, and we need to
look at opportunities that are different, and how we can integrate VR and the possibilities it provides for companies
like Imagine and beyond. The Future of Work Series is a partnership with PEAT and it's one of my favorites. Thank
you to the PEAT team as well as our podcast sponsor Workology.
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