Could VR help us improve our leadership skills?

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University of Canterbury researchers report that a virtual reality system devised to help people practice recently-learned leadership skills may be just as effective as real-life role-playing scenarios. Thirty people played the role of leaders interacting with either real humans or virtual ones before and after receiving a leadership training session. Regardless of the scenario, people’s performance showed improvement. As the costs of such technologies go down, the research team suggests that this kind of virtual training could be used in various fields, like corporate training and medical education.