VR training

VR training (virtual reality training) is a format in which participants experience a three-dimensional, interactive simulation through a VR headset. Unlike video or e-learning, a VR environment lets participants perform actions, take decisions and make mistakes, in a safe setting that mirrors reality.

People learn most effectively by doing. VR makes doing possible for situations that are too dangerous, too rare or too expensive to rehearse live: a fire in a machine room, an explosion risk at a gas line, an emergency shutdown of a chemical reactor. The combination of bodily presence and emotional involvement makes VR training stick more deeply than classroom alternatives.

In the energy, chemical and offshore industries, the situations that most need rehearsal are precisely the situations you cannot rehearse live. A fire at a compressor station, thermal runaway in battery storage, an ATEX incident on a platform: for every one of those, the first time your team encounters it must not be the first time they think about what to do. Modern standalone headsets (Meta Quest 3) need no IT infrastructure, no PC and no fixed training location.