NeXR Technologies pools globally unique resources for the creation of extended reality applications.
With NeXR Seminar, the Berlin-based company is implementing a B2B use case that will change the future of seminars, conferences and employee training.
The VR seminar has come to stay. NeXR now delivers the live experience via VR stream. The process is simple: You get a pair of VR glasses delivered to your office or home office, put them on, and dive into a world of immersive learning.
Scientific advisor of the project is Alexander Sascha Wolf, director of the Dictyonomie Institute for value-based networking in Berlin. Wolf teaches techniques to effectively connect people in groups. To do so, he usually travels around the world as a speaker.
Together with Wolf, NeXR has developed a VR learning solution in which the networking seminars are conducted as a virtual experience. To do so, NeXR created a body scan from seminar host Wolf, rendered it for animation in motion capturing, and developed VR worlds as a virtual seminar environment.
The course of the VR seminar with Alexander Sascha Wolf:
In the VR workshop, one now meets Wolf at the digital Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. In a first vote, he asks the participants to decide on discussion options: Should the group start with a small talk about the weather, or talk about their current challenges, both professionally and personally? Participants decide on either surface or deeper conversation options. If they want to remain on the surface, the participants drift virtually apart. If they decide on deeper conversations, the group moves closer together. “We learn in this VR seminar that small talk doesn’t get us anywhere, and I help the participants to go deeper than exchanging business cards,” says Wolf. The VR seminar is filled with interactions to learn the magic of networking based on mutual support.
“In times of digitalization, it is more difficult to network because you no longer meet people by chance at events or in the kitchen at the office. Nevertheless, it is possible to systematically build networks,” says Wolf. He cites the example of the Hanseatic League, a great trading network from the Middle Ages. For the big Hanseatic Day, the participants gather at the port of Hamburg, Germany. Wolf explains “The Hanseatic network only met and exchanged ideas once a year. The network was successful because they were committed to the same values – according to the principle of the Honourable Businessman”. Through an interactive game, the participants learn about the importance of values in networks by loading virtual ships. “It is important to speak quickly about values. A variety of different backgrounds work well together when they share the same basic values,” Wolf explains and calls out for the strengthening of one’s own networks. “You have to make sure that the network meets regularly, even if it is only once a year. In a globalized world, this naturally works well in a VR environment.
Markus Peuler, CEO at NeXR Technologies: “With Alexander Sascha Wolf, we have a specialist for networking who demonstrates that a space-time problem does not exist in virtual reality, and is therefore an obvious option in future networking.”
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