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Fordham Business Students Have New Tool to Prepare Them for Boardrooms: VR


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Students networking using Virtual Reality headsets.

At Fordham University this semester, business professors are using virtual reality to help students build professional business skills in simulated environments.

Credit: Fordham University

Fordham University students are using virtual reality (VR) technology to build professional business skills in simulated environments.

One simulation has participants learning to network among groups of strangers in a room, while others have them leading negotiations at business meetings, or making presentations before colleagues.

The rest of the class watches and critiques their anonymous virtual avatars on a projector, in real time.

The Fordham professor co-leading the class, Lyron Bentovim, also is CEO of the Glimpse Group, an augmented reality/VR company providing the technology for the class. Bentovim said over time, he expects VR will grow to be a feature in classrooms at every level of education.

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