---
id: "action-scale-xr-carefully"
type: "action-item"
source_timestamps: ["§ Getting Started"]
tags: ["scaling", "it-infrastructure"]
related: ["framework-xr-implementation", "question-content-creation-costs"]
action: "Address bandwidth, privacy, device standardization, and content creation bottlenecks at the 500-participant mark."
outcome: "Smooth enterprise-wide rollout without infrastructure failures."
speakers: ["Paola Cecchi-Dimeglio"]
sources: ["reskilling"]
sourceVaultSlug: "hbr-seg-reskilling"
originDay: 10
articleStem: "hbr-edu-33-new-tools-workforce-training"
sourceUrl: "https://hbr.org/2025/12/the-new-tools-that-can-improve-workforce-training"
sourceTitle: "The New Tools That Can Improve Workforce Training"
---
# Anticipate Scale-Specific XR Bottlenecks (at ~500 participants)

## Anticipate Scale-Specific XR Bottlenecks

**Action:** When expanding a successful pilot roughly tenfold (e.g., to **500 participants**), proactively address the **modality-specific infrastructure needs**:
- **[[concept-virtual-reality-training|VR]]** — private physical spaces and high bandwidth.
- **[[concept-augmented-reality-training|AR]]** — device standardization.
- **[[concept-mixed-reality-training|MR]]** — advanced content-creation pipelines (the heaviest lift — see [[question-content-creation-costs]]).

**Expected outcome:** a smooth enterprise-wide rollout without infrastructure failures. Step 4 of the [[framework-xr-implementation|XR Implementation Strategy]].