[Update] Sentry Kfc's Weird Vr Preparation Game Virtually Frying Chicken

KFC says it'll operate the Oculus Rift game to "supplement its robust, multi-step employee preparation program."

Remember when VR was cool, dorsum when it was fiction most cyberspace? Well, at i time it's here, too the corporate the world is doing everything it tin to learn inwards suck. Case inwards point: Earlier today, Eater published a written report stating that KFC is making employees play an Oculus Rift initiation game which teaches them how to brand fried chicken.
That sounded unlikely to me, hence I called a few KFCs around America. Two employees at different KFCs picked up, too both sounded confused when I started talking most virtual reality—which is completely fair, every bit "do you lot receive got a virtual reality preparation game" is a foreign reply to "This is KFC, how may I assistance you?"
Neither mortal had e'er heard of whatsoever KFC virtual reality preparation game. I idea perhaps it was all simply a viral marketing gimmick, but too hence a spokesperson from Yum! Brands, the firm which owns KFC too Taco Bell, responded to my query amongst a press release. It turns out the plan simply hasn't started yet.
"KFC volition operate the VR simulation to supplement its robust, multi-step employee preparation program, called Chicken Mastery Certification, which provides detailed eLearning too hands-on preparation for cooks inwards each of KFC’s kitchens," reads the release, which is laid to exit tomorrow morning. "KFC volition render yet some other platform for preparation yesteryear bringing the VR simulation technology scientific discipline to its regional full general managing director preparation classes, quarterly franchise meetings, too employee onboarding."

It even hence seems an awful lot similar a viral marketing campaign, but the press liberate says what it says. As for the game itself, you lot tin lookout a video of the whole matter above—basically, a disembodied Colonel Sanders barks at the employee amongst Cave Johnson-esque quips piece they inspect, bread, too kid chicken. According to Yum!, it takes 25 minutes to brand KFC's Original Recipe chicken, but alone 10 minutes to instruct the procedure inwards VR. How efficient?
KFC isn't the alone society that thinks it tin brand preparation fun amongst VR. "Will virtual reality learn the ultimate retail preparation tool?" asks RetailWire, which notes that Walmart is already using VR to develop employees. Meanwhile, Forbes muses, "If you're similar me, you lot may endure exhilarated yesteryear the possibilities inherent inwards augmented reality (AR) workplace training."
I am non similar them. I receive got never wanted employee preparation to endure 'fun,' because whenever an employer says something is going to endure fun, all it agency is that you lot receive got to pretend to receive got fun for $8.28 an hour. My betoken is: Give your employees raises, KFC.

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