virtual reality

VR provides an immersive and cost-effective approach to essential oilfield training.

This paper aims to demonstrate how virtual reality, a technology that gives the user an immersive 3D experience, is being used as part of major-accident-hazard awareness training and how this has been sustained to provide an innovative, powerful method of ongoing workforce engagement.

This paper presents a review of virtual reality (VR) in the oil and gas industry through the development of prototypes. The objective was to establish a learning experience and knowledge about VR’s main features, hardware, software, and applications; evaluate the capabilities of various VR solutions in the context of field operator and maintenance training; and develo…

When the world reopens, it will be flooded with the opportunities and tools that extended-reality platforms have to offer.

More energy and engineering companies participate in second Industrial VR/AR Forum.

Digital solutions that have made their mark in other industries may foster stronger collaborative environments in various sectors within energy, including equipment maintenance and data management.

​How can corporate trainers prepare employees for dangerous or extraordinary workplace scenarios? Virtual-reality technology offers immersive learning opportunities for an increasingly broad range of experiences.

The Environmental Defense Fund revealed a new “find and fix” virtual-reality experience, the Methane CH4llenge simulation, which takes users into a digitally simulated wellsite to show the ease and efficiency of controlling key sources of methane emissions.

The results of a virtual reality (VR) safety simulator and gaming experience presented by Lloyd’s Register at SPE Offshore Europe suggest that more needs to be done in training and understanding the daily risks of oil rig maintenance and operation.

Virtual reality technology has become a powerful training tool for companies looking to recreate real-life, on-the-job oil industry scenarios.