BNSF is including immersive technology in its mechanical training programs to help keep workers safe and improve role readiness, the Class I reported March 29. With the help of Virtual Reality (VR) ...

NORWOOD - Avoiding injuries at construction sites is a critical challenge and a company in Massachusetts hopes virtual reality might be the answer. At BOND Civil & Utility Construction in Norwood, ...

J. J. Keller & Associates has announced the release of its virtual reality training platform. The new program is available as part of the J. J. Keller Training online solution. Accessible with a ...

The nearly $800,000 project is funded by the North Carolina Collaboratory, which was created by the General Assembly to conduct research across the UNC System to inform policymaking on the state and ...

Virtual reality revolutionizes training and operations in the oil and gas industry. That’s what GlobalData said in a release sent to Rigzone recently, which highlighted a recently published strategic ...

In December, the Society for Simulation in Healthcare accredited George Mason University’s Lab for Immersive Technologies and Simulation, an innovative new program designed to bring a new dimension to ...

Virtual reality (VR) has arrived in the fire service as a transformative tool for enhancing training effectiveness and realism. Immersing students in a virtual environment that’s a familiar setting, ...

Wearing virtual reality headsets, firefighters and fire department leaders were placed in dangerous, stress-inducing situations they would face on the job. As part of the training, firefighters ...

A team at Red Deer Polytechnic in central Alberta has developed a fully immersive virtual reality program that allows ...

To build a virtual microchip factory, University of Cincinnati doctoral students turned to the real one where they work. Shailesh Padalkar, Manish Aryal and Anuj Gautam took exacting measurements of ...

Firefighting is an inherently challenging profession, requiring constant adaptation to new threats and environments. As technology advances, so must our methods for preparing incident commanders (ICs) ...

Jessup, Maryland (CNN) — In her first week of job training, Tiffany Joseph Busch learned how to do an oil change. “If I had known it was this easy then I wouldn’t have been paying for oil changes,” ...