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Dr. Kristopher J. Blom
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Top VR Apps to Make Your University VR Lab More Relevant and Boost ROI
Universities are investing in VR technology—but once the headsets are on the shelves, many labs struggle to stay relevant beyond tech-centric departments. To improve the ROI of your VR resource lab and increase usage across campus, it’s crucial to offer apps that serve a variety of academic and wellness needs. This list features top VR…
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Bringing VR Beyond the Lab: One VR resource to make it a campus-wide asset
When it comes to cutting-edge resources like Virtual Reality, success isn’t just about having the technology — it’s about making sure the entire campus community sees its value and gets involved. A VR lab tucked away in a corner won’t drive real return on investment; widespread engagement will. The more departments, students, and faculty who…
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Empowerment Through Awareness: Confronting Self-Limiting Beliefs
Self-limiting beliefs is a concept that comes up particularly in the self help area with some frequency. It seems easy enough to understand, but for the hard things in life I’ve never heard or found a way to overcome them. Until just recently. I came to understand self-limiting beliefs differently and that opened the door…
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Gamifying fear as a way to start doing
Gamifying fear is an approach to help you to overcome fear and start participating in that activity. Assuming your feared activity isn’t deadly and you can find a way to approach it with safe baby steps, I a gamification based approach may help you start and keep working at it. Gamification can help remove a…
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1.0 Release
Virtual Orator has been helping people achieve their public speaking training goals since its first public release in 2015. At release, it provided realistic public speaking experiences for people train. It has grown into a professional product that continues to improve, providing a greater variety of public speaking situations and tools. We are now releasing…
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Training Job Seekers for interviews with VR
Training interviews realistically is possibly even more critical than any other form of public speaking. The interviewee’s job is at stake. Hence, it is critical to leave a good impression, which means you need to be prepared. We are pleased to release a first set of resources for trainers to leverage the power of Virtual…
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Remote Presentation Practice with Virtual Orator
In a pandemic and post-pandemic world, public speaking is now often different. Remote presentations are now common and will likely become more of a norm. Even sales pitching that would traditionally always insist on physical presence are now frequently online. Getting Meaningful Practice Remote presentations are still public speaking but have different qualities and challenges.…
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Research: Single VR Session Reduces Stress
A research study shows Virtual Orator can reduce stress in a single session, including for those with speaking experience. Results verify people truly feel they are in front of an audience and engaged in public speaking when using Virtual Orator.
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Virtual Orator Learns Languages
Giving a speech in a language other than English? Virtual Orator has supported that out of the box from the start. Now we have released the first translations of the interface into French and German.
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Release Anxiety in a Breath
Do you feel the fear build up before you have to speak to an audience? I accidentally found a way that works for me when anxiety is building and I think it might work for others. It is simple and doesn’t require any practice to be effective. The best part? you get to channel your…
