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b'The top of a wind turbine a hundred\\nstories up from the ground is not the best place to be making\\nmistakes, but making mistakes and learning from them is the whole\\npoint of on-the-job training. That\\u2019s why VR Vision Inc helps\\ncompanies produce XR training modules, so trainees can make mistakes\\nin a safe, controlled environment. COO Lorne Fade drops by to talk\\nabout it.\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nAlan: Today\\u2019s guest is Lorne\\nFade, co-founder of VR Vision. Lorne is a serial entrepreneur that\\nhas built several businesses over the last 15 years. He\\u2019s had the\\npleasure of working with some of the world\\u2019s largest Fortune 500\\nbrands and award winning marketing agencies all across North America\\nand Europe. His previous agency, Academic Ads, was acquired, and he\\nwent on to found VR Vision Inc. As the co-founder and COO of VR\\nVision, they\\u2019re a virtual and augmented reality startup that\\u2019s\\nenhancing immersive training outcomes for some of the world\\u2019s largest\\nbrands using VR, AR, and AI technologies. He\\u2019s also the founder of\\nReality Well, a healthcare technology platform to improve the quality\\nof life for those living in long-term care facilities. You can learn\\nmore about VR Vision by visiting vrvisiongroup.com. Lorne, welcome to\\nthe show.\\n\\n\\n\\nLorne: Thanks for having me,\\nAlan. Thanks.\\n\\n\\n\\nAlan: My absolute pleasure, man.\\nWe\\u2019ve known each other for quite some time through the VR/AR\\nAssociation in Toronto, and we shared some booth space together, and\\nit\\u2019s always great to see what you guys are working on. I know the\\nlast time we saw each other, you were showing me an automotive\\nmanufacturing facility in virtual reality and how you were using\\nthat. So let\\u2019s dive in there. Let\\u2019s talk about how you guys are using\\nVR and 360 video to make better training.\\n\\n\\n\\nLorne: Yeah, that\\u2019s that\\u2019s one\\nof our bigger use cases with Toyota, where we\\u2019re training about\\n10,000 employees currently using 360 video, in immersive training\\nscenarios in VR. And it works really well for eliminating risk and\\nproviding a safe environment with zero harm. And it\\u2019s totally\\nimmersive. So the employees that are getting trained in VR, no\\ndistractions, they can\\u2019t be on their phone or anything. It was really\\nsimple the way we did it. We just storyboarded various scenarios with\\nToyota on various processes, on safety concerns, on their assembly\\nlines or processes that were mundane and replicable. And then we went\\nout and filmed with a stereoscopic 3D camera, so when they put on the\\nheadset they feel like they\\u2019re there, fully 3D. And we mapped out, I\\nguess about two to three minute scenarios, various parts of their\\nassembly lines and filmed it all in full 3D and then ported it over\\nto VR, added some overlays, some voice overs, some touch points and\\ninteractivity so that the employees could be trained in a completely\\nimmersive environment. Nothing like this is, from my knowledge, has\\never been done before. So it\\u2019s really cool to have this type\\nopportunity to work on a project like that.\\n\\n\\n\\nAlan: So how are they measuring\\nsuccess? For example, STRIVR is doing 360 video with Wal-Mart and\\ntheir key performance indicators. They\\u2019re measuring training times,\\nhow long it takes to train. They\\u2019re also testing retention rates.\\nWhat are the KPIs that you and Toyota decided on, how to measure\\nthat?\\n\\n\\n\\nLorne: Yes. Great question. We\\ndeveloped a in-house analytics engine for tracking where the user is\\nlooking, the various touch points of the training scenarios. And\\nevery user that uses the platform gets their own log-in, so we track\\neach user, their effectiveness, and how well they\\u2019re being trained\\nwith the scenarios. And then within the scenarios, there\\u2019ll be, let\\u2019s\\nsay, about 20 interactive touch points for various risks,'