3M VR Safety Training for Machinery Operators

The project’s objective was to create an immersive VR simulation to raise awareness about the danger the lamination machinery can carry for its operators and to train workers to obey the safety requirements.

The main challenge that the VR training helped overcome is the mindset of the workers who did not consider the machinery a potential threat to themselves and the doubt they had about any potentially harmful situation arising for them personally.

The developed VR simulation solution combines hand tracking and inverse kinematics. It enables a first-person view inside the experience and submerges users to feel as if they were physically present.

The team has developed several machinery interaction scenarios where one of the scenarios imposed a threat of capturing the workers’ hands if they did not follow the machinery operation procedures and necessary safety guidelines.