What if virtual-reality avatars could teach humans empathy–in the real world, not in the realms of gaming or science fiction? In some workplaces, that’s already happening. Mursion, a San Francisco ...

The Mursion classroom simulator allows a teacher education student, called a pre-service teacher, to offer 10 minutes of a lesson to a classroom of students. The pre-service teachers enter a small ...

A tech company that provides human resources training to some of the world’s largest corporations has been using white actors to portray people of color in virtual reality simulations about diversity, ...

I’ll admit that when I first heard about Mursion, a company that was using VR and AI to help train humans how to have challenging conversations at work in less than 15 minutes, I was skeptical. Soft ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tech company Mursion is employing white actors to play people of color in diversity training programs using virtual reality — and ...

There are usually a few nervous giggles when teachers join their first classroom simulation from Mursion, a virtual reality training provider. But CEO Mark Atkinson says the snickers swiftly dissolve ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. A former tech executive covering AI and XR for Forbes. Mursion (a foreshortened form of Immersion) is used as an immersive VR ...

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In a new pilot program, the University of Virginia Curry School of Education will provide teachers-in-training instant feedback to help them clear the biggest early hurdle to becoming successful ...

VIRTUAL INSANITY: Mursion, a San Francisco-based provider of virtual reality simulations for workplace training, has closed an $8 million Series A round led by New Markets Venture Partners. Other ...

Tech company Mursion is employing white actors to play people of color in diversity training programs using virtual reality — and the practice is raising some controversy in the acting and media world ...