Transform Your Business with Augmented and Virtual Reality
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Transform Your Business with Augmented and Virtual Reality
This course is part of Modern Business Strategy and Innovation Specialization
Instructor: Madecraft
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What you'll learn
Distinguish AR, VR, and XR technologies and identify the platforms and infrastructure that make each viable for business deployment.
Apply VR and AR to real business contexts, evaluating how immersive technology drives ROI across training, marketing, and collaboration.
Design AR and VR strategies grounded in experience economy principles and build a data-backed commercial case for XR investment.
Skills you'll gain
- Branding
- Blockchain
- Customer experience strategy (CX)
- Promotional Strategies
- Consumer Behaviour
- Technology Strategies
- Business Technologies
- Driving engagement
- Brand Loyalty
- Digital Assets
- Return On Investment
- Digital Marketing
- Game Design
- Augmented Reality
- Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR)
- Virtual Environment
- Emerging Technologies
- Customer experience improvement
- Virtual Reality
- MarTech
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June 2026
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There are 6 modules in this course
Augmented and Virtual Reality are already generating measurable commercial results across every major industry, from retail and healthcare to entertainment, logistics, and financial services. Most business professionals can name the technology, but far fewer know how to evaluate it strategically, make the case for it internally, or design the specific applications that actually drive revenue and loyalty. That gap is where this course begins.
This course takes you from the foundational technology landscape through to practical, applied strategy. You'll distinguish between AR, VR, mixed reality, and extended reality and match each to the right business context. You'll evaluate how VR is being used to drive sales conversion, accelerate workforce training, and enable remote collaboration at scale and assess how AR is creating commercial advantage across consumer marketing, enterprise operations, and digital asset creation. You'll apply NFT monetization frameworks, immersive entertainment revenue models, and experience economy principles to real scenarios, and build the ROI arguments that justify XR investment at the leadership level. By the end of this course, you will be equipped to evaluate immersive technology options against real business criteria, design AR and VR strategies that generate measurable outcomes, and make a confident commercial case for XR investment in your organization.
The tools reshaping modern business are already here, and knowing how to tell them apart is the first step to using them well. In this module, you'll distinguish between Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and Extended Reality, trace how 5G unlocks their real-world potential, and map the ecosystem of devices and platforms your business can act on today.
What's included
4 videos1 reading2 assignments
4 videosβ’Total 12 minutes
- Transforming Your Business Todayβ’2 minutes
- Types of Realitiesβ’4 minutes
- 5G: Speed, Power and Touchβ’3 minutes
- Understanding the Ecosystemβ’3 minutes
1 readingβ’Total 10 minutes
- The Enterprise XR Ecosystem Today β What's Changed and What It Means for Your Businessβ’10 minutes
2 assignmentsβ’Total 19 minutes
- AR, VR, and the Infrastructure Behind Themβ’15 minutes
- The 5G Advantageβ’4 minutes
Virtual Reality has moved well past the headset demo stage: businesses are using it right now to train employees, close sales, and run meetings that outperform video calls on engagement and morale. In this module, you'll apply VR use cases to real business contexts, evaluate how organizations are measuring the return on their VR investments, and identify opportunities to deploy VR for training, collaboration, and customer engagement in your own work.
What's included
3 videos1 reading2 assignments
3 videosβ’Total 9 minutes
- Virtual Reality for Real Resultsβ’3 minutes
- VR Work and Meetingsβ’3 minutes
- Learn, Study and Playβ’3 minutes
1 readingβ’Total 10 minutes
- VR Doesn't Just Show People Things β It Changes How They Decideβ’10 minutes
2 assignmentsβ’Total 19 minutes
- VR at Work β Sales, Training, and Collaborationβ’15 minutes
- VR at Work β Sales, Training, and Collaborationβ’4 minutes
Augmented Reality is already embedded in how hundreds of millions of people shop, socialize, and interact with brands, and most of them don't realize it. In this module, you'll trace AR's current reach across consumer and enterprise contexts, evaluate the wearables ecosystem reshaping how industries operate, and apply the three main AR routes to market to design an effective AR experience for a real business scenario.
What's included
3 videos1 reading2 assignments
3 videosβ’Total 9 minutes
- From Snap to Storesβ’3 minutes
- Welcome to Immersive Wearablesβ’3 minutes
- AR Marketingβ’3 minutes
1 readingβ’Total 10 minutes
- The AR Audience Is Already There β Your Business Probably Isn'tβ’10 minutes
2 assignmentsβ’Total 19 minutes
- AR in Action β From Consumer Adoption to Enterprise Deploymentβ’15 minutes
- AR in Action β From Consumer Adoption to Enterprise Deploymentβ’4 minutes
The most forward-thinking brands are no longer treating AR and VR as marketing experiments; they are building digital asset strategies, unlocking new revenue streams through NFTs, and creating immersive entertainment experiences that open entirely new commercial models. In this module, you'll evaluate how AR and VR are being used to drive consumer product sales, assess the business case for NFTs and digital branding, and apply these frameworks to the converging worlds of shopping, sports, and entertainment.
What's included
3 videos1 reading2 assignments
3 videosβ’Total 9 minutes
- Consumer Goodsβ’3 minutes
- NFTs and Digital Brandingβ’3 minutes
- Shopping, Sports, and Entertainmentβ’3 minutes
1 readingβ’Total 10 minutes
- The Illusion That Closes the Sale β How AR Turns Product Experiences Into Revenueβ’10 minutes
2 assignmentsβ’Total 19 minutes
- From Try-On to Fortnite β How AR and VR Generate Commercial Valueβ’15 minutes
- Blockchain and NFTsβ’4 minutes
The audience for immersive brand experiences is already there; the question is how to build them in a way that converts attention into loyalty and loyalty into revenue. In this module, you'll evaluate the psychological and commercial principles behind immersive brand experiences, apply emotional design frameworks to AR and VR campaigns, and measure how in-store activations and VR experiences translate into ROI.
What's included
3 videos1 reading2 assignments
3 videosβ’Total 10 minutes
- The New Experience Economyβ’3 minutes
- Driving Customer Experienceβ’3 minutes
- ROI in the Metaverseβ’3 minutes
1 readingβ’Total 10 minutes
- The Experience Economy Just Got Bigger β How Immersive Sports Is Expanding the Lesson's Central Argumentβ’10 minutes
2 assignmentsβ’Total 19 minutes
- From Story Worlds to Sales β Measuring the Return on Experienceβ’15 minutes
- Return on Experienceβ’4 minutes
The AR and VR ecosystem is evolving rapidly, and the businesses that move early will capture the most durable advantages. In this module, you'll assess where immersive technology is heading, evaluate what a fully interconnected 3D digital world means for commercial strategy, and identify the highest-potential opportunities for professionals and organizations positioned to act now.
What's included
1 video1 assignment
1 videoβ’Total 3 minutes
- VR, AR, and the Dawn of the Metaverseβ’3 minutes
1 assignmentβ’Total 30 minutes
- Transform Your Business with Augmented and Virtual Realityβ’30 minutes
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