A tech company that provides human resources training to some of the world’s largest corporations has been using white actors to portray people of color in virtual reality simulations about diversity, ...

SAN FRANCISCO, March 25, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Mursion, a startup that provides immersive VR training for essential skills in the workplace, today announced an $8M Series A, led by impact investor New ...

Tech company Mursion is employing white actors to play people of color in diversity training programs using virtual reality — and the practice is raising some controversy in the acting and media world ...

What if virtual-reality avatars could teach humans empathy–in the real world, not in the realms of gaming or science fiction? In some workplaces, that’s already happening. Mursion, a San Francisco ...

The Mursion classroom simulator allows a teacher education student, called a pre-service teacher, to offer 10 minutes of a lesson to a classroom of students. The pre-service teachers enter a small ...

As Jeremiah Price started the simulation, one of the five virtual students complimented him on his sneakers. The teacher candidate thanked the student for the compliment, but then redirected her back ...

There are usually a few nervous giggles when teachers join their first classroom simulation from Mursion, a virtual reality training provider. But CEO Mark Atkinson says the snickers swiftly dissolve ...

I’ll admit that when I first heard about Mursion, a company that was using VR and AI to help train humans how to have challenging conversations at work in less than 15 minutes, I was skeptical. Soft ...

SAN FRANCISCO and NEW YORK, Oct. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Mursion, a leading learning and development technology company, and Perception Strategies, a consultancy focused on advancing fairness and ...

Tech company Mursion is employing white actors to play people of color in diversity training programs using virtual reality — and the practice is raising some controversy in the acting and media world ...