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Interview | NGN International<br />
Can you explain for our readers how<br />
VR technologies can improve business<br />
education and training?<br />
VR is mainly and most commonly<br />
used for manufacturing staff training.<br />
Modern manufacturing enterprises are<br />
interested in solutions that can prevent<br />
any emergency causing personal injuries<br />
and costly equipment damage. VR<br />
trainings emulate real-life operations<br />
and processes faced by specialists in<br />
their everyday work. VR simulators allow<br />
them to practice equipment maintenance<br />
procedures, emergency drills, and<br />
master new skills. Specialists train<br />
in virtual reality using photorealistic<br />
copies of real sites, such as sections of<br />
an oil refining plant or gas distribution<br />
stations, and employ either 3D and VR<br />
apps customized for mobile devices, or<br />
VR simulators designed for widescreen<br />
visualization systems with high<br />
granularity. Having such VR simulator<br />
connected via Learning Management<br />
System (LMS), you can arrange distance<br />
learning and regularly check personnel<br />
knowledge anywhere, even in hard-toreach<br />
locations.<br />
As AR/VR personnel training<br />
experience has shown, VR tools not<br />
only immerse users into a virtual<br />
environment to master a variety of skills,<br />
but also accelerate the study of materials<br />
by 2.5 times.<br />
How can VR / AR be used actually help to<br />
sell more?<br />
Today, real estate items are very<br />
often introduced to the market as early<br />
as at the construction stage. Selling an<br />
apartment, which a buyer cannot see, is<br />
a challenge unless you use innovative<br />
tools that can fully immerse a potential<br />
buyer into virtual simulation of their<br />
future apartment or house. With a<br />
holographic table, customers can get<br />
a bird’s-eye view, watch floor layouts<br />
and the interior, and even look out the<br />
window of a particular apartment.<br />
Virtual reality gives an opportunity<br />
to feel like being on site and view the<br />
landscape and surroundings, thus<br />
improving sales efficiency even at the<br />
pre-construction stage.<br />
What solutions are there for different<br />
sectors like oil and gas, petrochemical,<br />
construction industries?<br />
In manufacturing, energy, and<br />
hazardous production sectors, VR<br />
technologies address two key challenges:<br />
training and design. They allow for the<br />
natural size design and demonstration<br />
of machines, units, and components, and<br />
maximum immersion into the training<br />
process.<br />
Indeed, the manufacturing sector<br />
is most prepared to adopt AR and VR<br />
technologies, which reduce the risk of<br />
equipment misuse and human errors at<br />
hazardous facilities.<br />
Furthermore, AR and VR can greatly<br />
optimize product and building design<br />
and lifecycle support. Many leading<br />
vendors of AR head mounted displays<br />
(HMD) and glasses are actively looking<br />
into their application at construction<br />
sites and integrating their solutions<br />
with Autodesk document management<br />
tools and modeling products. In addition,<br />
virtual testing is in great demand<br />
when it comes to the construction of<br />
sophisticated engineering sites, for<br />
example, to ensure seismic protection of<br />
a future building.<br />
The manufacturing<br />
sector is most prepared<br />
to adopt AR and VR<br />
technologies, which<br />
reduce the risk of<br />
equipment misuse<br />
and human errors at<br />
hazardous facilities.<br />
What about military activities and<br />
programs? How is it useful for that?<br />
In our experience, military sector also<br />
uses VR for training and design. Indeed,<br />
22 January-February <strong>2018</strong>
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