omVR - A Safety Training System for a Virtual Refinery

In this paper we present the prototype omVR, which is a Virtual Reality based safety training system for a petrol refinery. It provides an improved technique for personnel safety training and it allows users to navigate through the refinery scenes and to interact with the environment. omVR is the implementation of a training environment that immerses the user into a computer-generated reality, which is too dangerous, difficult, or expensive to play in real life. Furthermore, this approach simplifies simulations of accidents and ’what-if’ experiments cheaply and without risk. In our application a trainer has the possibility to control the virtual scene of the trainee from a PC application. This trainer module communicates with the trainee visualization program, which uses Head Mounted Display technology and results a high degree of immersion.