The Complete Guide to Creating VR Training Content

The Complete Guide to Creating VR Training Content

The demand for VR training content is growing, and so is the need for people to create VR content. Learn how in this guide.

With the virtual reality training market expected to grow to 67.02 billion dollars by 2029, the world needs more VR content creators to keep up with the demand for training courses. In process based industries where precision, safety, and technical knowledge are paramount, Virtual Reality (VR) is completely changing the way employees train for their job roles and keep one another safe at work.

For VR developers, creating VR training content can be a rewarding but complex and time consuming process, sometimes taking months to create one VR training module. If only there were tools that could help you create content with ultimate ease, and improve the speed at which you create content. We decided to take those matters into our hands, and thus FLOW—a tool designed to integrate seamlessly with Unity— was born. FLOW takes the hassle out of VR development, allowing you to create training content quickly and efficiently. Here at Luminous, we’ve got years of experience building VR content for global brands, and FLOW is the tool that your internal development teams use to create content.

With the need for VR content growing stronger, the need for a tool that helps developers create content at speed is vital. This guide will help you understand how to create VR content using VR authoring tools.

1. Understanding the Learning Objectives

Before starting development, it’s essential to define the goals of your VR training module. What is the purpose of the particular module you’re creating? We create modules for a range of situations, listed here which are important to consider:

Onboarding: Immerse new hires in their work environment and help them familiarise themselves with equipment and important procedures.

Safety Training: Simulate hazardous environments or emergency procedures without any risk of danger to employees or equipment.

Technical Training: Perfect and practice working on equipment, processes, or technical procedures to ensure efficiency.

Troubleshooting: Solve common issues and train users to resolve problems, diagnose and fix problems in real-time.

Teamwork & Collaboration: Workforces are dependent on the bonds of teamwork and therefore it’s important to be able to create virtual spaces where entire teams can join, solve problems and discuss issues no matter their location.

Having clear objectives on the particular scenario will help guide your design and development, ensuring that the VR content aligns with the specific needs of the users.

2. Using The Right Tools for the Job: Unity and Luminous FLOW

While Unity provides a flexible foundation for creating VR content, FLOW is the tool that will streamline your development process. Designed to work hand-in-hand with Unity, FLOW simplifies VR training content creation massively. Take a look at our video that showcases flow and how easy is is in practice to create VR training content.

3. Requirements Gathering

This is arguably the most important part of the VR content creation process – nailing down the exact steps for the module your client needs. Doing this correctly ensures that the learners experience of a particular module is as close to the real life experience as possible.

To create a bespoke training module, you must work closely with the subject matter specialists to document current training processes, goals and outcomes of a particular scenario. Having training documents or step-by-step processes is useful, or even a recording of the operator carrying out the process in real life whilst talking through the procedures.

This ensures accurate knowledge transfer and ensures you can create the most realistic module possible.

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4. Building the VR Environment in Unity

Creating a realistic and functional environment is key to successful VR training. FLOW will help you to create the sequence of steps easily, but you’ll need to add in the 3D elements that bring the environment and scene to life.  Whether you’re simulating a factory floor, a construction site, or an equipment workshop, your environment needs to reflect the real-world conditions where users will apply their skills.

FLOW comes complete with a range of industrial 3D asset packs that allow you to build complex environments, saving time while enhancing the realism of your training modules.

There are a range of websites that you can use to obtain 3D content for your environments such as the Unity Asset Store, Sketchfab and more.

 

5. Deploying and Scaling Your VR Training Content

When your VR training module is ready for deployment, FLOW makes it simple to roll out across multiple platforms, making it easily accessible.

Cross-platform compatibility: By utilizing ArborXR,  FLOW ensures your VR content is device agnostic, meaning it’s compatible with multiple devices. Develop once, deploy anywhere.

Cloud-based deployment: FLOW’s cloud support allows you to update and distribute your training content easily, making it scalable for small teams or large enterprises.

Future-proofing your content: FLOW’s seamless integration with Unity ensures that your VR training modules remain adaptable to new hardware or software updates.

Whether you’re delivering training to a single team or an entire organization, FLOW makes scaling your content effortless.

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Conclusion: Why Choose Luminous FLOW for VR Training in Unity?

Creating VR training content for hard skills like onboarding, technical training, safety drills, and troubleshooting is no small task but FLOW streamlines the process, making it faster and easier for Unity developers to build rich, interactive training modules without sacrificing quality or performance.

We want to empower developers to create immersive, effective VR training content that can be deployed at scale. If you’re ready to accelerate your VR training development, become a creator for free.

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