Walmart is putting 17,000 Oculus Go headsets in its stores to help train employees in VR

Walmart is putting 17,000 Oculus Go headsets in its stores to help train employees in VR

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https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/20/walmart-is-putting-17000-oculus-go-headsets-in-its-stores-to-help-train-employees-in-vr/

Workplace training has long been considered one of the key early areas where virtual reality can make a dent in the enterprise. Walmart already made some noise when it announced it would be bringing VR hardware into its training centers, now the company is planning to send Oculus Go headsets to each of its 5,000 stores so that more of Walmart’s employees can get instruction more often.

The big box giant will begin sending four headsets to each Walmart supercenter and two headsets to each Neighborhood Market in the country. That may not necessarily seem like a ton to train a store full of employees, but at Walmart’s scale that amounts to about 17,000 headsets being shipped by year’s end.