Many of us remember playing Simon Sez as a kid. Now imagine playing the game on the computer where you try to outsmart an avatar on the computer screen. Unlike current virtual worlds like Second Life or MMORPG’s like War of Warcraft, this new software allow you to control your avatar with your gestures, not a joystick. The avatar waves, you wave back. If the avatar didn’t say Simon Sez but you move, he tells you that you lose! That type of software is what Andrew Tschesnok, founder and CEO of Organic Motion, believes is the future of training.
On the day I interviewed Tschesnok, his company announced an agreement to deliver what he calls “a multi-soldier tracking platform capability” to the U.S. Army. Translation: Organic Motion’s technology can now provide a more realistic training environment where the movements of soldiers in training are tracked and displayed in real-time. “Old mechanized training doesn’t work anymore,” says Tschesnok, “in a world where warfare is asymmetric. New technology will embed the individual in the process.” Organic Motion’s software can help reconstruct a marketplace in a village in Afghanistan. Actors play the enemy; the soldier can interact. What’s been missing up to this point was getting the other person immersed in the simulation. Now the participant isn’t just controlling a joystick but he becomes the joystick.
The implications for this in business are enormous. Let’s say you want to purchase a shirt and slacks. Instead of running to the mall, you sit in front of your computer screen, enter a virtual store, and are greeted by associate. The associate knows what size your wear because the bi-directional monitor “sizes” you up.
Are you thinking this is years away? Think again. Microsoft’s just released Kinect for Xbox 360 just in time for the holiday season. Kinect is a "controller-free game based around a webcam-style add-on peripheral for the Xbox 360 console. It enables users to control and interact with the Xbox 360 without the need to touch a game controller through a natural user interface using gestures, spoken commands, or presented objects and images. In other words – it converts a computer display into a bidirectional screen where you see the computer and it sees you and responds back. According to Tschesnok , Microsoft’s technology will be considered primitive soon but currently serves as a great example of what’s coming.
Bill Gates once said that “We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten.” The advancements and technologies available to employers and schools, along with many others that don’t even exist yet, will revolutionize how companies train and employees learn. It’s quite likely that the speed of change in learning systems and models will follow Gate’s slow-start, rapid-shift scenario as the economy recovers and lost business opportunities accelerate due to severe skilled worker shortages.
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