Virtual Reality for Visualisation
Virtual reality (VR) can play a powerful role in bringing individuals or teams into the moment of a coaching session. Virtual Reality hit the mainstream recently with the arrival of affordable, consumer-friendly headsets. Already businesses are keenly embracing the opportunities created by this amazing technology. That isn’t surprising, given the possibilities it creates for freeing our minds from the physical shackles of our body and allowing us to “see” into places that only exist in the digital world.
Using a virtual reality headset commands ultimate concentration and engagement and can really enrich a coaching session. As explained by Sam Isaacson, Grant Thornton’s Head of Coaching Services “Imagine the coachee wearing a headset with the coach asking questions either by phone or video. “It will augment your existing reality. You see and hear the coach but still see Mount Everest.”
For training purposes, VR offers the potential to immerse ourselves in any situation that can be simulated on a computer. Increasingly photorealistic visuals “trick” our brain into believing, to varying extents, that what we are seeing is real, allowing us to monitor, and learn from, our interactions. A great example is the public speaking training systems which have been devised using the tech, such as VirtualSpeech.
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