Originator/Sponsor: Food and Fibre CoVE
Portfolio Manager: Lilla du Toit
Status: In delivery
Planned delivery date: Phase 1 of this project is completed and a report is available. We are currently working towards developing and implementing three pilot programmes aimed at testing VR technology as a training tool in the real world.
Service Provider: Skills Group
Collaborating partner: Indelible Production Company, Beef and Lamb New Zealand, DairyNZ, and Te Wananga o Aotearoa
Primary Objective: To explore and test the benefits of VR, AI and Gamification technologies as training and education tools in the food and fibre sector.
The enabling objectives are:
Understand how current VR, AI and Gamification technologies are used in education/training and how best to deploy them across the food and fibre sector.
We are piloting three programmes. Our partners for these are – DairyNZ focussed on safety and skill development in Milking Sheds, Beef + Lamb New Zealand focused on safe cattle handling practices and Te Wananga o Aotearoa focussed on their forestry programmes. These pilots use VR 360 technology to support learning and training goals for these respective industries.
These pilot programmes are expected to be run through to June, followed by an evaluation report available in August 2025.
The above information was current as of 28 Feb 2025