UPS Develops Virtual Reality Tech To Train Delivery Drivers

Posted By : Vidushi Vij | 18-Aug-2017

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UPS is going to prepare its students with a whole new training setup. From September they will soon be using virtual reality to train them which is a big technological leap when it comes to driver safety training. The shipping company will be training their delivery students who deliver package delivery trucks which will be very helpful for stimulating potential driving hazard on streets. The safety of package and on time delivery through about 10,000 UPS vehicles around the world is highly important therefore they are switching to VR. This type of training will provide the 360-degree view of the entire city which will help in improving the driving conditions. 

 

 

The Vive will be starting in all the centres which will provide the realistic training using VR which creates a hyper realistic streetscape. It will be loved by all the drivers who love video games. The drivers will learn the program through the HTC Vive VR headset. While wearing headsets, students will interact with the content through Voice to detect road hazards like such as pedestrians, parked cars and oncoming traffic. This training makes the driving a real delivery vehicle. The new training technique will surely replace the existing touch screen device used for training drivers.  Initially, the don virtual reality handset is available to the package delivery drivers only, but they are planning to use VR and AR for training their employees that handle tractor-trailers and other tasks. 

 

 

Also Read: HTC Unveils A New VR Headset

 

 

VR training is definitely a next big thing but when it's not done properly it can be worse than the manual training.  Google even compared the VR training with the usual manual training and found out, people who had been taught with VR have more advantage as they are prepared and more alert with the real dangers. The only issue is in creating the realistic Virtual Reality content to take advantage of everything. Though VR is less unique than the drones but they are still helpful for shipping package, drivers can easily keep a track of shipments. Many other big companies are thinking of using VR as a training process. 

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