XR / VR Training.

Recognising and responding

Participants explore a process-plant setting, recognise potential hazards and choose a response appropriate to their role. The focus includes recognising warning signs, assessing a situation and deciding when to report a concern or seek help.

Feedback and decisions

Guided feedback and scoring connect the choices made in the environment to the learning activity. The environment supplies the visual context; the decisions and communication give the interaction its purpose. This complements the process-operation focus of the Virtual Plants with a broader process-safety perspective.

Working inside a turbine

The environment covers the nacelle, rotor hub, roof, access ladders and surrounding terrain. A virtual instructor guides activities such as turbine shutdown, inspection and maintenance, with safety-related choices incorporated into the session.

Guided tasks and assessment

Equipment location, access and task sequence are presented together. Interactive tasks and assessment checkpoints provide feedback on the session, including accuracy and procedural compliance. It is a different application of industrial 3D from process control: the emphasis is on understanding a work environment and carrying out a guided sequence within it.

Inside the equipment

Valves, pumps, vessels, heat exchangers and other process equipment can be inspected as 3D objects. Exploded assemblies and cutaways reveal parts that would otherwise be hidden. Labels, component selection and movement help explain construction and the relationship between parts.

From component to context

The application supports equipment understanding alongside classroom teaching, Virtual Plants or control-room simulators. It shifts the focus from running a whole process to investigating an individual item: what it contains, how it is assembled and how its internals operate.

Preparing a process for maintenance

Three guided scenarios and an unguided mode explore preparing a process for maintenance. The experience covers single- and double-valve isolation, draining, purging and lockout/tagout, with visible changes in process flow as the equipment state changes.

Decisions with a live response

Communication, monitoring and safety checks are part of the activity alongside equipment interaction. Questions and a session recap connect actions to the reasons behind them. It brings the process model and procedural training together: the environment responds while the participant works through the scenario.

My simulation contribution

I implemented rudimentary flow and pressure calculations inside Unity to support the isolation behaviour. This product used local simulation rather than connecting to a separate simulation application as the IVPs did.