Innovation Roadmap: Workforce Development Initiative Utilizing Virtual Reality at the Victorville City Library

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1. Hi Brandon,
   Wow — this is a great presentation!
   I hadn’t quite fully considered the notions of VR application to workforce development, but upon reading your slides and thinking about all of the various possibilities, the sky is the limit! (Well, maybe budgets, too, but you get the point.) I liked how you envisioned partnering with offices that specialize in job training, as well, because they could help something like this really soar and have an impact.
   Your roadmap reminded me quite a bit of the Alvin Johnson line that a library is “a people’s university.”
   Another fascinating element to this project is how marketing via social media could be perfectly suited to the idea, as you outlined. Can you imagine the potential of amazing social posts displaying all available through this? Talk about eye-catching!
   – @sjsudon

   • Thank you so much SJSUDon! I have been a user of VR since 2018, but I have only used it for entertainment purposes. It was not until I took INFO 287-19, Feel the Learn: The Library Advancing Virtual Reality with Tammy Westergard, that I realized the true potential of VR in libraries. She is actually one of the directors of Project SANDI in Nevada, so you know you are getting first-hand knowledge. Just a fascinating topic, and I hope that VR does not fade out like it has in the past. Thanks again!