2016-10 - Laval Virtual Days - Training

@SebKuntz @MiddleVRMiddleVR.com

VR - The future of training ?

Sébastien ‘Cb’ Kuntz MiddleVR

Founder & CEO

• Virtual reality for professionals

• Office in Paris

• Founded in 2012

• VR content creation professional services

• MiddleVR for Unity: Unity plugin to create VR apps

• Improov3: Virtual meeting room

• http://www.middlevr.com/improov

• Collaborative product review• Import native CAD data

• Catia V5 / V6• Solid works

• Siemens NX (JT)• STL, Step, Collada, FBX

IFC• Easy to setup / use

for CAD

http://www.middlevr.com/improov

Improov3 introduction

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJB0mPVxIgU

VR not to escape realitybut to improve reality

New office in Shanghai !

VR Market

• New market ?

• No !

• Peugeot : 7M€ since 1999

• Renault : New VR systeme 3M€

• Saves 2M€ / year & 20% reduction in conception time

• Jaguar Land Rover : 4M€ saved in 5 weeks

Presence in a virtual world

= Be somewhere else

Virtual realityBe somewhere else

*WITH* somebody else

• Engineering

• Marketing

• Training

• Architecture

• Health

• Education

• Social / Multi-user

Software revolution

Training / Education before VR

Training with VR2001 - French railways

2003 - French railways

Saint Gobain / Clarte

Training

• Military, surgeons, cops, firefighters, mine safety, oil & gas platforms, nurses, building industry …

• Motivation• Easy to use• Practice actual gestures

• Repeat until master• Record, analyse, replay• Safe environment

• Controlled scenarios

Training• Particularly useful

• If object/environment doesn’t exist yet

• Maintenance on future assembly line, car…

• If object/environment can’t be monopolised

• Practice maintenance on combat aircraft

• Practice rare/dangerous / expensive situations

• High risk / high cost

(c) Lockheed Martin CHIL

Examples - Client : RTE (Electricity)

Exemple - GRTgaz

Exemple - GRTgaz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPLwg98bF4Y

Training - Beyond Reality

• Change world scale

• Change time scale

• Watch action in slow or fast motion

• Visit the past or the future

• Simplify reality

• Show invisible effects

• Display tension, stresses, temperature, audio, magnetic field, electric field, gas, IR, heat ….

Training - Beyond Reality

• Remote training

• No need for the teacher to travel

• Best teacher for the whole world !

• Share training among multiple sites

• Trainees can work together

Training in the cyberspace

Value of VR for training / Education

• What you have learned in VR transfers in real life

• More efficient

• More accessible

• Costs reduced

• Risks reduced

• Waste reduced

Thank you ! Questions ?

[email protected] @SebKuntz @MiddleVR