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Talespin Co-Founder and CEO, Kyle Jackson, is receiving the Innovate@UCLA Executive Leadership Award which recognizes individuals and organizations who exemplify digital leadership and innovation.

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Talespin has raised $20 million of series C funding to scale its platform and realise its vision for learning in the Metaverse

Talespin has raised $20 million in funding for its task of using virtual reality and augmented reality to train people to do work.

Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has made a strategic investment, through Accenture Ventures, in Talespin, a spatial computing company focused on workforce talent development and skills mobility.

Global leaders in enterprise learning, workforce transformation, extended reality and human-capital investment all back Talespin’s no-code immersive learning platform.

The Ken Blanchard Companies®, a global leader in management training, consulting, and coaching, announced its partnership with Talespin, a spatial computing company focused on workforce knowledge transfer and skills insights, to create a series of learning modules on building and restoring trust.

The cofounder of Talespin looks at an existing immersive learning program that delivers results and says our next priority should be getting it into the hands of as many learners as possible through the metaverse.

Enterprises struggling to deliver critical employee training across platforms and geographies have been turning to extended reality. Here are some of the companies advancing the use of virtual reality in HR training

Virtual reality technology is gaining steam as a corporate learning tool, with the barriers to entry getting lower every day. Here's how companies can jump in

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AI uses historical data to spot trends in hiring and employee retention. Experts at IBM and Talespin said it can make hiring more inclusive and faster.

HTC Executive Pearly Chen sat down with Kyle Jackson, founder and CEO of Talespin, a skills mobility company that VIVE has been lucky enough to invest in. Tune in to our conversation to hear about Kyle's prolific entrepreneurial journey driven by infinite curiosity and defined by tackling difficult paradigm-shifting problems. You’ll hear the story of how Talespin came into being, using VR simulation as an educational tool, and why the skills mobility problem affects everyone in the workforce -- leaving listeners with some memorable pearls of wisdom.

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This scaling startup banded together across time zones to build a new product to redefine soft-skills training.

For the latest instalment of Salt's Diversity and Inclusion interview series, we speak to Harmen Veling, Director of People and Operations, Netherlands at Talespin, a leader in immersive learning development, on what it takes to establish and foster an inclusive culture in a start-up and the changes the business has seen during the pandemic. Since joining the business 18 months ago, Harmen has witnessed significant growth in their product roadmap as well as in the wider team. He shares advice on how start-ups can ensure that their culture is inclusive of everyone.

Talespin announces new content creation tool, distribution technology, and platform update to power immersive learning ecosystem

Training solution specialist Talespin has been building up its library of content aimed specifically at helping companies who are keen on improving their employees skills. Further improving its services, today Talespin has announced an expansion of its off-the-shelf learning content library whilst making its services easier to access.

In this update, Talespin adds new ‘Recognizing Bias’ and ‘Practicing Self-Awareness’ content titles to its library of immersive soft skills learning content. Previously available only on extended reality (XR) devices, the learning modules can now be streamed via web browsers on desktop devices, lowering the barrier to entry for immersive learning. 

"Support your peers. In one of my previous roles, I started and led a women-supporting group. It was a time for women to meet for casual discussions about any topic and feel safe to speak their minds. During our meetings, we discovered there was a recurring theme surrounding a point of confusion we all shared regarding how promotions happened and the right tools to navigate to the next level. I would encourage other women to start a similar women’s group to ideate, support each other and share new ideas." - Jieun Kim, Vice President of Product at Talespin

"I would encourage women to start a women's group to support each other, build confidence, and provide a safe space to speak their minds." - Jieun Kim, Vice President of Product at Talespin

"Finding the balance between productivity and cultural inclusion is critical in leading teams efficiently and effectively in the U.S. and the Netherlands." - Antoinette Jones, Director of People Operations

The global market for VR technology in enterprises is expected to grow five-fold between 2018 and 2023.

Kim brings 20 years of experience in product leadership, design and XR technology.

Ever since the pandemic began, and workforces went home to begin a long period of remote work (which has yet to fully end), we’ve been inundated with think-pieces discussing the “New Ways of Working”. Supposedly, the Old World is never coming back, and we all have to adapt to the reality forced upon use by COVID, or be left behind. I tend to agree.

Los Angeles’s Best Places to Work in Los Angeles lists the startups and tech companies with the best employee benefits in the city.

In 2020, companies have been forced to try new technologies because of the pandemic. One company sees this tech staying for the long haul.

Learn about the companies driving the rising VR/AR industry growth in Los Angeles.

Bunselmeyer brings more than 20 Years of experience in enterprise sales across XR, learning & development.

Qualcomm has been heavily invested in the XR industry since the early days, creating platforms like Snapdragon XR2 as well as its XR Enterprise Program (XEP) initiative last year. Today, the company has revealed that membership for the programme has doubled in the last twelve months, with over 30 new members joining.

With offices in the U.S. and the Netherlands, Talespin is experienced at making the most of collaborative remote workflows, Director of People Operations Antoinette Jones said. However, leaders can still benefit from formal training related to improving their EQ and fostering personal connections with employees while remote.

“There can be a lot of noise around marketing metrics considering the volume of measurable data at a marketer’s disposal. The key is determining what matters most for a strategy. For a B2B company like Talespin, brand awareness is a critical element. But supporting sales — and driving conversions — is where the rubber meets the road for B2B marketing.” - Justin McLaughlin, VP Marketing and Communications Talespin.

PwC and tech startup Talespin have teamed up to train employees on implicit bias using virtual reality.

Vive X reaches investment milestone aided aided by their continued momentum with seven new investments in the VR and AR space.

Technology, media, and entertainment industry veteran will help Talespin continue to scale, build new partnerships and drive the future of work.

Virtual reality developer Talespin has launches a "Leading Through Uncertainty" series of content modules it said will help leaders and managers navigate disruptions, including those posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to an April 29 statement.

Talespin LLC, an enterprise training firm that uses virtual reality for teaching

To help executives and other business leaders manage their teams through some difficult scenarios, Talespin, a spatial computing company that aims to help rapidly transforming workforces learn new knowledge and gain new skills, has released five new virtual reality (VR) learning modules in a package called "Leading Through Uncertainty."

New VR and desktop learning modules help organizations adopt a people-first approach to accelerating workplace transformation.

Vice President of Engineering Bryan Dickson’s team is coordinating across the company’s entire stack to build an end-to-end platform that enables content development, delivery and analysis in a more efficient and intelligent manner. Talespin engineering efforts touch the art department, business development and data science teams.

It turns out the virtual and augmented reality companies aren’t dead — as long as they focus on the enterprise. That’s what the Los Angeles-based extended reality technology developer Talespin did, and it just raised $15 million to grow its business.

Cornerstone OnDemand® leads funding round and partners with Talespin to bring XR training content to more enterprises.

Talespin, a developer of enterprise XR learning technology today announced a $15 M Series B investment from its strategic partner, Cornerstone OnDemand (NSDQ: CSOD), a publicly-traded provider of web-based corporate training software valued at $3 BN.

Talespin became famous for a virtual reality demo designed to teach managers how to fire a hapless worker named Barry. Now the company has raised $15 million to further develop extended reality (XR) — using technologies such as virtual reality and augmented reality — for enterprise training.

Talespin and JFF are working together to drive impact in immersive learning and education. With JFF, the Talespin team will be able to catalyze economic mobility for workers at scale.

JFF profiles 11 companies pioneering VR and other immersive technologies in corporate talent development for frontline and middle-skill workers.

Talespin CEO Kyle Jackson joined Yahoo Finance's Jen Rogers, Brian Cheung, and Andy Serwer on The Final Round to discuss the future of work.

Talespin’s ‘Runway’ Platform to Offer Insurance Industry’s First XR Training Content Library.

If you want to avoid being replaced at work by a machine, the first step might be strapping one firmly to your face.

That emotional realism is what separates virtual reality from all the other tools for teaching interpersonal skills in the workplace, from pamphlets and role-playing workshops to interactive tutorials.

Farmers’ program was created by a startup called Talespin, which is now working on training to improve soft skills — those involving emotional intelligence — by developing artificially intelligent virtual humans to interact with.

Employers can now practice laying off an ultra-realistic, AI-powered virtual employee in order to develop their soft skills before they have to fire someone in real life.

Barry the virtual man looks so realistic you'll really feel for him as you lower the ax. And that's the point.

Meet Barry: his sole purpose in life is to listen patiently, and then protest or sob a little as you fire him from an imaginary job in virtual reality.

The future of work has become somewhat of a buzz term, but fundamentally, it’s about how technology will impact the experiences offered by organizations, both internally to their employees and externally to their customers.

We are proud to be partnering with Google again to discuss the Future of Work and how artificial intelligence and robotics will disrupt the workplace, but also create new opportunities. It's not a dystopian future as depicted in entertainment or the press.

The insurer is expanding an existing relationship by working with the XR solutions vendor to simulate critical workplace conversations to help employees practice key interpersonal skills.

Farmers Insurance has announced a partnership with Talespin, a company that provides virtual reality and augmented reality products for businesses, to develop a VR training curriculum that focuses on simulating workplace conversations to help employees practice key interpersonal skills.

Farmers Insurance has announced the development of a virtual human training program in collaboration with Talespin, the leading developer of enterprise XR solutions.

With 67 percent of recruiters withholding offers due to a lack of soft skills, organizations must rethink their approach to soft-skills training.

Talespin is one of a small but growing number of startups exploring how semi-realistic human avatars, sometimes powered by basic forms of artificial intelligence, might be put to work in simple business contexts that otherwise take a certain touch of human personality.

The future of EQ development and improved interpersonal interaction ironically might lie with machines.

Soft skills are increasingly being viewed as a potential indicator of job fitness and have therefore become a key area of learning efforts for businesses in recent years.

AR and VR can help improve employee training simulations on soft skills by delivering realistic human speech, body language, and mannerisms, according to Talespin

First platform demo simulates HR use case, tasks trainees with firing virtual character "Barry."

Training employees how to perform specific tasks isn't difficult, but building their soft skills - their interactions with management, fellow employees, and customers - can be more challenging, particularly if there aren't people around to practice with. Virtual reality training company Talespin announced today that it is leveraging AI to tackle that challenge, using a new "virtual human platform" to create realistic simulations for employee training purposes.

New advances in virtual humans are making corporate training incredibly lifelike, a little bit awkward-and hopefully a lot more human.