{"id":8250,"date":"2018-04-30T07:00:28","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T15:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/?p=8250"},"modified":"2018-03-12T11:04:08","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T19:04:08","slug":"virtual-and-augmented-reality-av-vr-achieving-the-impossible-virtually","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/virtual-and-augmented-reality-av-vr-achieving-the-impossible-virtually\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtual and Augmented Reality (AV\/VR): Achieving the Impossible Virtually"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes the real world is cruel &#8212; and expensive and difficult to work in.\u00a0 Businesses are beginning to consider how virtual and augmented reality (AR\/VR) can help them achieve goals virtually that might otherwise be impossible to do in the real world.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comptia.org\/resources\/understanding-emerging-technology-virtual-reality-augmented-reality?c=82773\">A survey by CompTIA<\/a> found that one-fifth of organizations say that they&#8217;ve already have had some practical use of either VR or AR technologies.\u00a0 These technologies can make it possible to use virtual assets to achieve a goal, often at lower cost than what it would take to do in the real world.\u00a0 Areas where AR and VR have been most frequently used are for customer engagement and employee training.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/tim1953?utm_campaign=profiletracking&amp;utm_medium=sssite&amp;utm_source=ssslideview\">Tim Herbert<\/a>, senior VP at CompTIA, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.informationweek.com\/big-data\/big-data-analytics\/how-ar-vr-analytics-may-help-your-business\/d\/d-id\/1331036?\">said that<\/a> &#8220;most organizations realize there&#8217;s some potential because they saw what happened with Pok\u00e9mon Go last year, but it&#8217;s going to take some time to happen&#8230;\u00a0 If you think through some of those use cases, you can see how having some of the new streams of data would be valuable to an organization.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaon.com\/leadership\">Gavin Finn<\/a>, CEO of Kaon, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/article\/300071\">wrote that<\/a> &#8220;as these solutions become more mainstream, in terms of devices and software, they are losing some of their technology focus and beginning to gain a more integrated status as components or features of larger products and solutions. 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