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How will Extended Reality help reclaim your life beyond Covid-19?

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How is the Covid-19 situation limiting our nature to stay connected? In an isolated environment due to social distancing, the only way to connect is via Technology. Though the Internet has provided us with a million ways to connect via social media, messenger, and video conferencing, the ability to connect in the third dimension, space, is what makes life meaningful. But the more we interact in real life, the more we stand to risk our lives in the process due to the Covid-19 situation that has taken the world hostage. We human beings are social beings by nature. It is only due to our ability and character to connect with others that we are able to shape ourselves. Is technology helping us really? Newer technologies like the Internet of Things (IoT) feed us with a lot of information to the point of an overkill. This is why it is said that " Beyond the age of information, is the age of choices."  And that begs the question, how do we make choices in our daily life? M

XR's Impact on "Workforce Training"

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The immersive technologies, i.e., augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) which are combinedly known as XR is said to be providing immersive and experiential learning environments so that the future workforce can be prepared through it. XR is an umbrella term for both AR and VR where it is availed for the training initiatives in the workspace and it has been spun across various industries.  With the help of XR led workforce training, there are benefits like increase in employee engagement and improvement in productivity since the technology is able to mimic real-life situations. With the help of XR hardware, the employees can practice on a lot of training applications which is from safety to potential customers and task-specific modules for the hard skills and for the leadership development; there is the use of employee scenarios.  Since the trainees are receiving immersive and fun learning experience, it is not only more engaging to them but also they are interested and