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intel. Using virtual reality for training
The task: Enable professionals to experience high-risk situations without endangering themselves.
Electricians, nurses, doctors, and other professionals often encounter high-pressure situations where their lives or the lives of their patients are at risk. Virtual reality allows them to safely simulate such scenarios, providing a realistic experience and replicating the pressure of real-life situations.
There are multiple challenges in creating a user experience for virtual worlds
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Designing an environment and interaction that truly simulates the real world.
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Integrating instructions into a virtual environment that is supposed to mimic reality. Unlike a 2D environment, in the real world there are no menus, buttons, or icons. There is nothing telling us to "go forward to the next level". How can we guide the user to walk in the desired path?
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Enabling someone, who has never experienced virtual reality before, to navigate freely in this new reality, while depending on a controller.
The results speak for themselves.
The company's electricians undergo high-risk training once a year.
After starting to undergo the training in virtual reality, they were able to recall the procedures and execution methods effortlessly, even without reviewing the accompanying materials.
They handled pressure and voltage with utmost proficiency when faced with real-life hazardous situations, leading to significant improvement in their success in managing life-threatening events.
