5 Public Speaking VR Experiences in VR
Did you know that public speaking is one of the most common phobias in the United States according to the National Institute of Mental Health? At 73%, it beats death, spiders and heights. The simple act of speaking in a meeting gives everyday people crippling anxiety. Thankfully, there are effective tools to help with that that don’t require you to leave your house.
There are a handful of in person opportunities to improve public speaking like Toastmasters but it’s possible to do this in the comfort of your own home for practice. There are many VR experiences that focus specifically on this soft skill and 3D asset management platforms like echo3D are excited to support VR for good by providing cloud-based tooling for the backend.
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This public speaking app is the real deal, hence the lofty price tag! Virtual Orator comes with the full experience: AI, the option to upload your own slides, unique venues, the ability to practice with notes, remote presentations utilizing desktop display settings and small groups of “people” to provide an audience. This program offers feedback which gives it the cherry on top. It’s professional grade software that is flexible and realistic. The program evolves into more formal and challenging settings and starts with casual settings like smaller friendlier groups. This company uses proprietary AI making it one of a kind.
Availability: $199.99 on Valve Index, HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and Windows Mixed Reality
This simplified VR auditiorium simulation helps you practice public speaking in a contained space. There is a virtual audience for a realistic feeling. You can load in your own presentation in PDF format and use a simulated “clicker” and microphone to practice the logistics of public speaking until you feel ready to do it in real life. Most people have a problem with the sound of their own voice and this experience addresses how to get used to that!
Availability: Free on Valve Index and HTC Vive
This lets you practice being the center of attention with settings that change, including a lecture hall and a corporate board room with 4 total environments to practice in. These are practical places that people would be speaking so the practice is invaluable. This experience does an in-depth analysis of speech with 7 different speaking metrics (kind of like Toastmasters) that are measured throughout the whole talk. The audience is responsive to simulate a realistic environment.
Availability: $14.99 on Valve Index, HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and Windows Mixed Reality
This straight-to-the-point public speaking app has just enough to offer to give you the right kind of training you need. It has different high quality environments, interactable objects like microphones and markers, different types of crowds, the ability to change the mood of the crowd (a fantastic tool for standup comedians perhaps?) and access to Google Slides to give an accurate presentation.
Availability: $7.99 on Valve Index and HTC Vive
This is offered in addition to online courses to accelerate learning of key social skills like public speaking, sales and job interviews. This is the practice portion of the coursework. This is a safe space to learn what they’ve practiced in VR without worrying about real life consequences of messing up. Users can upload presentation slides and notes inside of the realistic virtual environments and avatars. There are sound and visual distractions to mimic realistic speaking scenarios and an eye contact rating. Users can save their speeches and review them alter on as well as get real time feedback on their speaking skills.
Availability: The App Lab on Oculus Quest and Quest 2
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echo3D (www.echo3D.com; Techstars 19’) is a cloud platform for 3D asset management that provides tools and cloud infrastructure to help developers quickly build and deploy 3D/AR/VR games, apps, and content.
