360 video/virtual reality/augmented reality

Hi Ashley,

I realize it's only been 14 days  since my last post on this subject, but thought I'd check in. Squeaky wheel and grease!  The requests for immersive interactivity is increasing beyond expectations and I'd truly prefer NOT to have move over to Captivate 2019. Sure, inserting as web objects (providing you have a website with java plugins to accommodate 360) works, but you can't put markers, hotspots, etc. for additional activity.

I know the requests for 360 VR/AR is being monitored...gonna keep pushing this up hill!

Thanks!

Hi All, 

and let me share my view on the 360 and VR in eLearning.
I am in the process of creating a course that will use the VR tour as the main scene. I will place a few smaller activities within this VR tour and the learner needs to do them all. 

I didn't find a tool that would allow me to track those activities in the VR tour and pass the score/result to Storyline or LMS, so at the end of every small activity, there is a word/phrase to collect that needs to be manually entered into the articulate textbox. 

As I would love to share this publicly, I can't, but if anyone is interested I can point them to the tool or help with the solutions I used. 

Following with interest.

In my opinion Articulate need to jump on this to avoid loosing users to the dreaded Captivate. Clients in general have much higher expectations from their learning than a few years ago and to stay ahead of the game Articulate really need to adopt this current growing trend of VR & AR.

It would be great if Articulate would support VR. We are getting more demand of training using VR/AR. We are looking at different software like Unity and LearnBrite.

I agree that the demand for immersive technology, especially VR in eLearning, is growing by the minute. As employers seek workforce with all-encompassing skills, the talents who author L&T materials for these companies require their software to meet this demand. Staying ahead the curve by adding features such as VR, and offering Articulate 360 for Mac users (without needing to install a Windows environment) would benefit so many of us, without having to consider other software solutions. 

While we are waiting for Storyline (and hopefully Rise also) to get built in VR-features, you could try to use H5P Virtual Tour (360). I have added an example from their website h5p.org, both in Rise and Storyline. The example is just linked but I guess it would be possible to download, adjust and add to the publishing folder.

I haven't tested if I can get the interaction recorded to my LMS but it has support for Tin Can. H5P.com (the commercial site) has a LRS and maybe that could be a way to get it to work.

BTW, H5P.org has many interesting modules I would love to have built into Storyline & Rise.

The Rise example

Hi Dan,

Thank you for this tip. I checked it out and you are right! It could be a great interim option. I like the 360 sample you uploaded and it looks like there's the opportunity to upload a 360 video and similar interactivity. 

Thanks Dan...awesome!

Let's keep the thread going. One day, we'll all be surprised with a VR option!

Cheers!

To echo what others have said, I definitely think VR should, at the very least, be on the roadmap.

This is also a feature that I would like to request and see the demand and expectation for it only increasing. Is there any update?

Thanks for chiming in to share your thoughts as well, Lisa.

I do not have an update, but we are still tracking user requests and monitoring.