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VR Helps Students Train For Jobs

Indigenous students looking to experience first hand what it’s like to work in a major industry like mining can do so in virtual reality.

Training company Origin co-owner Paul Giles explains the VR tool is high tech and life like.

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Right now, Origin offers VR experiences of working in an underground mine and being a pole line apprentice on a hydro line.

In the future, Giles tells us he would like to offer a health care vr simulation.

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