How VR Heavy Equipment Training Works
30 October 2024Is virtual reality the answer to heavy equipment operator training and reducing fatal accidents at work? Discover more in this blog.
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Practice high risk, dangerous situations without any risk
The Military, Defence and Security sectors has the highest fatality rate of any industry. Practice procedures across medical training, explosive ordnance disposal and equipment and vehicle simulations.
Perfect daily tasks and build confidence in virtual reality
Get hands on training in a safe and controlled environment. Interact with weapons, equipment and vehicles virtually, without putting individuals at risk of injury.
Prepare for the real-world experience with realistic simulations
Experience highly realistic and immersive environments with VR training. Soldiers can experience real-world scenarios that closely resemble real-world situations.
VR Military Training Use Cases
VR Safety Training
Experience situations like Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Training to simulate each step in the identification, handling, and disposal of explosive devices.
Technical Equipment Training
Master step by step procedures and build muscle memory. Virtual Reality is utitlized to simulate the operation of equipment and other military vehicles.
Employee Onboarding
Speed up onboarding and reduce training costs by enabling employees to familiarise themselves with the plant, site and equipment so they feel confident, right from from the start.
Troubleshooting
Practice resolving complex issues that are vital for operational efficiency – so when your teams are in real-world settings they can confidently use weapons, handle equipment and operate vehicles confidently.
Workplace Collaboration
As well as individual training, you can bring individuals together in your virtual environments to train, plan and collaborate from anywhere in the world.
Benefits of Virtual Reality Military Training?
90% Increase in employee engagement
75% Improvement in knowledge retention compared to traditional learning
60% Reduction in workplace accidents
How does Luminous XR transform your training?
Defining your Goals and VR Training Modules
The first step in creating high quality, effective training content will involve defining your your training goals and what modules you need. Do you want personnel to be experts in battlefield medical procedures? Or do you require training for more dangerous tasks like explosive ordnance disposal?
Requirements Gathering
Once your training module has been confirmed our team will work side by side with your subject matter experts to document your processes step by step, we call this requirements gathering.
This can be done through capturing videos, reviewing documents and laser scanning your environment to ensure the content we develop replicates your exact environment and procedures virtually.
Art & Environment 3D Modelling
The more life like the virtual experience, the more effective the training.
Our talented team of 3D artists and designers work on recreating your assets, machinery and work environments so it feels like really training on the job.
VR Scenario Development
Once your environment has been created our team of developers begin developing, testing and building your training modules.
Our content is built to the highest design standards and rigorously tested to ensure effective learning and development.
Ready, set, go…
Once your training content is complete and you’re 100% happy with your scenario, you’ll get access to a branded PORTAL aka your dedicated learning management system for your VR content.
Here, trainers and trainees can access class schedules, training content and individual performance analytics. Everything you need for effective learning, accessed via a VR headset.
Dedicated learning space for managing VR training in the Military, Defence and Security industries
What is employee training without data insights that help and encourage progression? At Luminous, we not only create training modules in virtual reality. We provide your business with a dedicated learning PORTAL, complete with personalised training dashboards for each trainer and trainee.
Manage training modules, schedule sessions and gives users everything they need to engage and complete course content. Learning data is seamlessly synced and recorded from VR headsets to your preferred LMS, to encourage continuous L&D.
New to VR? Experience our 2 day Envisioning Workshop
Discover the potential of XR (Extended Reality) training for the Military industry with our XR workshop.
- Gain insights into the latest XR trends and how they can be leveraged in the Military industry.
- Discover the unique opportunities XR presents for your business and how it can solve your specific training challenges.
- Work with our experts to conceptualize and prototype XR solutions that align with your strategic goals.
- Develop a clear roadmap for integrating XR training into your operations, ensuring a seamless and impactful deployment.
FAQs
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VR training can be hugely beneficial when compared to traditional training. VR training can reduce training times by 40% and improve employee performance by 70%. But why? With VR, experiences being so immersive means the experiences feel like real-life and creates a higher emotional connection compared to traditional training. This makes learning more memorable, meaning it has more impact on users memory.
You can discover more about implementing vr training on our ultimate guide to vr training page.
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Military personnel face high-pressure and dangerous situations that can’t be predicted and therefore thorough preparation is key, and the use of VR defence training offers a learning experience like no other. VR defence training prepares teams for a range of scenarios, enhancing situational awareness and teamwork.
Trainees can train together as a unit and understand the impact that actions will have on one another as a team, practice weapon handling and familiarise themselves with military-specific environments like submarines and tanks to ensure readiness for any mission.
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When done at scale, VR can be extremely cost effective – at 1,950 learners VR training achieves cost parity with e-learn. At 3,000 learners, VR costs become 52% less than classroom based learning. VR is also cost effective because of the savings made on training and travel costs.
You can discover more about the benefits of vr training in our latest blog.
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If you’re completely new to virtual reality training our XR Envisioning Workshops are a great introduction to learning about the technology, hardware and how it fits into your business. You can book a workshop slot for one of our workshops, where the Luminous team will come to you and run a two day workshop with your team. If you know what training content you require and are ready to chat to one of our team, then you can skip the workshop and book a demo directly with us right here.
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