VR Shop Score – Bronze Award
System: Valve Index, HTC Vive, Oculus Rift & Windows MR
Price at Time Of Review: £154.99
Comfort Rating: Green
Genre: Virtual Training
Input: Tracked Motion Controllers, Keyboard & Mouse
Best Playing Position: Sitting, Standing, Room-Scale
Multi-Player: No
Age Rating: PG
Description: Get the public speaking experience you need to overcome fear, hone your skills, and perfect presentations. Realistic practice is the key to improved public speaking and Virtual Orator is professional-grade VR software that provides you with the flexibility and behavioural realism required. This version of Virtual Orator for personal use leverages our enterprise solution to provide you with the best professional tools. Adjust each unique scenario to match your current needs.
Review: ‘Virtual Orator’ is a “professional grade” virtual training tool that allows you to practise public speaking. While it is all quite basic it does offer a range of features that should help most people overcome their fear of doing so in real life. Apparently “every session is unique” which doesn’t mean you will get feedback from AI avatars, but they will move and jitter in calm or more aggressive ways which you can choose in the settings. Sure, this program does have some cool features, but the biggest issue I have with ‘Virtual Orator’ is the quite frankly stupid £154.99 price tag. There are PLENTY of ‘Virtual Training’ apps that allow you to practice speaking to people with most of the features this program offers and some of them are free, but almost all of them are less than a tenner. Why on earth would someone pay £154.99 for this? I don’t know, but what I do know is this is not something I will be recommending to someone anytime soon.
