Scroll Top

Is An XRS The Best Way To Update VR Content?

Interest in game-based technology and simulations has increased significantly, as more than 30% of organizations identify these tools as a top learning investment. 

As the popularity of extended reality (XR) technology increases, so does the importance of keeping your training content up to date. Updating VR Content is important for the following reasons:

  • Keeps Content Accurate — Updates keep VR content precise, which helps maximize the value of a training program. 
  • Maintains Relevance —  Updates help ensure content is fresh and relevant to the organization.
  • Ensures Content Is Purpose-Built — Updates improve a training program’s effectiveness with content built around key organizational and performance goals. 

An extended reality system (XRS) can help you seamlessly roll out updates to your VR content. An XRS is a valuable management tool that makes updating XR content more convenient and scalable. 


Are you wondering how to maximize the value of your XR training by keeping content up to date? You’ve come to the right place!

XR technology can benefit your organization’s training program, but you want to ensure you update content efficiently. An XRS can help you do so, and much more! 

This article will explore the importance of keeping VR content up to date, the 3 types of VR updates, and how Mercury XRS can help push updates to your XR devices. 

The Importance Of Keeping VR Content Up To Date

VR content is no different than traditional learning content. Similarly to traditional learning content, VR content is purpose-built and needs to remain accurate and relevant throughout a training program’s lifecycle. 

Updating VR Content is important for the following reasons:

  • Keeps Content Accurate — Updates keep VR content precise, which helps maximize the value of a training program. 
  • Maintains Relevance —  Updates help ensure content is fresh and relevant to the organization.
  • Ensures Content Is Purpose-Built — Updates improve a training program’s effectiveness with content built around key organizational and performance goals. 

As business processes and best practices change, VR content needs to change with it. For example, if a warehouse updates the steps required for packing and shipping orders, it’s essential that the training program reflects these changes. A training program becomes less valuable when it’s bogged down with dated content.

The 3 Types Of VR Updates

Updates with VR are common, even expected. The frequency of VR updates varies depending on the specific need and training scenario. Updates could include policy changes, compliance updates, branding revisions, or changes in personnel. Specifically in VR programs, updates typically come as performance and reliability updates, compatibility updates, or content improvements. 

  • Performance and reliability updates — These updates tend to be infrequent once development and pilot programs complete. These updates focus on technical difficulties, including load times, outages, and server issues. 
  • Compatibility updates — As vendors continue to update the software on their headsets, compatibility updates may be necessary to ensure that content continues working properly. 
  • Content updates — Improvements to content depend on the specific scenario. Content updates focus on the learning material itself, including the wording of questions and answers, as well as the environments learners are placed in. 

VR content may need occasional updates depending on the scenario. For example, a training program on the best safety practices may need to be updated as new equipment is added to a shop floor, while retail associates may require more frequent changes to scenario training in response to evolving customer expectations and policy. 

How Are VR Content Updates Made?

When a content update is needed, organizations can either work with their internal development teams or content vendors to produce a revision. Once the updates have been prepared, deployment typically means packaging the content, moving it to a content delivery network (CDN), and confirming the change in an XRS. 

An XRS helps organizations get the most out of their XR training investment by giving L&D professionals the power to manage their content and users. Capabilities vary from platform to platform, but an XRS generally enables L&D professionals to deploy and assign XR content to headsets, collect training metrics, track the completion of an XR training, and more. 

After the content is packaged, moved to a CDN, and confirmed in an XRS, it’s typically deployed as one or more individual apps that are pushed from a mobile device management (MDM) platform to the individual headsets courtesy of the Operations or IT Teams. 

Expertly Update Content With Mercury XRS

While a typical XRS may allow developers to update content with ease, Mercury XRS makes updating XR content even more convenient by deploying changes as part of a single-app delivery platform. Mercury XRS is a cloud-based XRS that can make XR training more attainable and scalable. 

Compatible with the Oculus Go, Oculus Quest, and Pico Neo 2, Mercury XRS can be integrated into an existing LMS to ensure that organizational goals are met and individual career development plans are on track. By adding a Mercury software development kit (SDK) to VR content and deploying through Mercury XRS, organizations have a comprehensive source for making content updates.

Mercury makes updating VR content easier in the following ways:

  • Eliminates the need to deploy multiple apps
  • Avoids requiring special device permissions
  • Doesn’t require side-loading software

Mercury can also force an update to content or leave it to the learner’s discretion as to when to update. This is an unmatched flexibility made available in a single, multi-device platform bundle. 

Does The XRS Fit?

As we’ve discussed, keeping VR content up to date is critical to an XR training program’s success. Updates can be seamlessly rolled out with an XRS, such as Mercury.

Ready to get started with an XRS? Check out more resources here.

SUBSCRIBE TO OUR

NEWSLETTER