Supporting Multi-User Co-located Training for Industrial Procedures through Immersive Virtual Reality (VR) and a Large-scale Display
Bernardo Marques, Andreia Portela, Tome Carvalho, Raquel Vasconcelos Ferreira, Diana Siso, Miguel Marques, Duarte Almeida, Paulo Dias, Beatriz Sousa Santos · 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality Adjunct (ISMAR-Adjunct) · 2022
Virtual Reality (VR) has enormous potential to support training scenarios in the most diverse areas of application. In industry scenarios, it can allow operators to acquire new skills and higher levels of confidence before moving to real-world activities. Trainees must immerse themselves within the task space, which means using a Head-Mounted Display (HMD) to experience a virtual representation of the environment. Nevertheless, such activities are mostly isolated, removing the ability to perform training sessions in a collaborative manner with a trainer and other trainees that are learning how to perform identical tasks. This work presents a multi-user colocated training prototype based on VR, wireless controllers/pointer and a large-scale display. By using a shared immersive display, while a trainee is immersed in the VR environment, the trainer can visualize the same content and explain what to do, as well as interact, highlight areas of interest or correct possible mistakes. This enables other's trainees to watch and learn from each other training sessions, better preparing themselves. As use-case, we took inspiration from a real-life collaborative scenario thanks to an on-going research project with partners from the industry sector.