Today I was invited to visit the Talent Center at the WK Styria. Mr. Pichler, the manager of the talent center gave me a very warm welcome and showed me the facilities. The building is very impressive and he told me that every day they have 40-50 teenagers at the talent center doing interest and skill tests and trying out VR applications. Surprisingly he also told me that they currently work on Virtual Reality simulations to try out different jobs. Currently they have three different jobs the teenagers can try out. I was allowed to do virtually bricklaying on the roof of the talent center. The visuals and the interaction were really great and it was so much fun to test it out. Mr. Pichler also told me about the companies who were involved in creating the VR simulation. They did not communicate any of those simulations yet as they just started.
Mr. Pichler was really curious about my thesis and offered me to help also regarding the user testing which was super encouraging towards my project. He gave me some tips in terms of motion sickness and realistic features. All in all I was super impressed by the simulation and had a lot of fun it trying out.
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