Strivr

Strivr is a developer of an end-to-end immersive learning platform designed to help people and organizations train, learn, and perform. The company's platform combines Virtual Reality (VR) with advanced learning theory, data science, and spatial design. Strivr initially developed training products as a project to help the Stanford University football team train in virtual reality.

Strivr's virtual reality-based learning platform offers employers a chance to bring immersive learning to new employees. Virtual learning offers the learner the chance to develop the same neural pathways they would develop through experience. At the same time, Strivr's platform offers employers the ability to measure a learner's performance through data analytics and insights.

Through Strivr's platform, users are able to use their content creation tools to develop training programs. These tools are based on behavioral science and best practices, developed in part through Strivr's experience, and offer rich data-collection capabilities, along with analytics and predictions to offer users engagement and attention data. This can help a user understand the impact a training module has for users. Strivr also offers the selection, procurement, and configuration of all hardware, along with on-site physical set-ups, to help companies get started.

Strivr also offers performance consultants, who work with companies to assess their training needs and translate those into learning objectives that inform the VR learning, which is later developed. The resulting curriculum is designed with immersive content specialists who help design these courses and make them as immersive as possible to increase user learning retention. These content specialists include filmmakers, instructional designers, and UX experts, intended to bring a holistic approach to the artistic and educational aspects of immersive learning.

Walmart adopted Strivr's learning system in 2016 as a pilot operation. During the course of the training, Walmart found results that included 30 percent higher employee satisfaction, 50 percent higher scores on employment tests, and a 10 to 15 percent higher rate of knowledge retention, when compared to traditional training. In 2018, Walmart expanded the program to all of their stores.

The history of Strivr and immerseive learning

Strivr suggests their immersive learning model can be used to help companies train employees to learn the best ways to react in challenging situations. For example, Verizon uses VR to offer realistic training for dealing with an armed robbery and to help employees learn de-escalation skills and practice decision making under pressure.

Strivr suggests their immersive learning model can help companies increase the efficiencies of their employees through training, including reducing mistakes and increasing new employees' proficiency.

The immersive learning model has been used by Verizon to help their employees deal with difficult customers and learn how to stay calm and avoid escalations. The training can help employees provide better service by building empathy towards customers, and also help them feel more confident in the case of challenging customers.

For their users, Strivr offers a virtual reality self-assessment tool, which allows users to bring a businesses challenge to Strivr, which then works to provide recommendations on how best to solve it with VR training. These recommendations are based on previous deployments in an industry and previous training experience.

With an increased emphasis on soft skills in various industries due to the increase in automation, Strivr has developed VR training programs to better increase users' soft skills, allowing learners to have experiences and explore real-world emotional responses, in order to better reflect on their performance and learn better strategies. As well, with the increase in remote hiring, Strivr offers VR as a solution to give a realistic experience to both job candidates and hiring managers. This can also help hiring managers better assess a candidate's soft-skills.

Developed in collaboration with the Stanford University Football team and coaches, Strivr offers a sports-focused VR training, which is intended to help athletes with knowledge and skill repetition. This is intended to allow players to practice anytime and anywhere to further accelerate a training regimen and to give the athletes a chance to run more reps in as realistic an environment as possible. This repetition in training can help accelerate an athlete's skills and understanding of a given game, and by performing in VR, the training can reduce the impact of practicing on the athlete's body.

Strivr's sports program has been used by NFL and college football teams, including by the San Francisco 49ers, Minnesota Vikings, Denver Broncos, Pittsburgh Steelers, Arizona Cardinals, and Tampa Bay Buccaneers. As well, it has been used by the Washington Wizards and Detroit Pistons of the NBA.