Can you imagine placing a worker in front of a fire or other emergency in their workplace to train them? Thanks to technologies such as mixed reality, it is possible to create these types of situations to provide effective training without any real danger.
Mixed reality combines the physical and virtual worlds, superimposing interactive digital elements onto the real environment surrounding the user.
Unlike virtual reality, which completely immerses the user in a digital environment, mixed reality allows them to interact simultaneously with real and virtual objects, creating immersive experiences without isolating them from their physical surroundings.
This technology opens up a new era in health and safety training. With mixed reality, any real workplace can be turned into a hyper-realistic risk scenario. Workers are confronted with a risk or emergency in the place where they carry out their daily work. This offers multiple advantages.
With mixed reality, training takes place in real physical environments (offices, factories, plants, logistics warehouses, etc.) with virtual risk elements. Facing a risk in your everyday workplace reinforces the realism and impact of the training.
Learners learn how to prevent a risk or avoid an accident in their actual workplace. Learning is reinforced with a realistic first-person experience thanks to mixed reality.
By training with the same objects and spaces that are used on a daily basis, retention and practical application of learning are multiplied.
Trainers and colleagues can observe and communicate with the user. The trainer gives instructions to the learner, who can see and hear them as they are not fully immersed in a virtual scenario. This encourages feedback and direct assessment.
Mixed reality training takes place in the real world, without the need to enter a 100% simulated environment. This provides an easy entry point for people with no previous experience in using this type of technology.
Training with virtual elements in real facilities (mixed reality) preserves the company's branding and equipment in the training. It also generates greater impact and connection with employees.
Mixed reality opens up new horizons in occupational risk prevention training. It allows critical situations to be trained in a safe, realistic and directly applicable way to the workplace, promoting a more solid and effective preventive culture within organisations.
Ludus will soon be offering its customers this way of training to prevent occupational risks. The firefighting simulation will feature a mixed reality scenario, allowing a virtual fire to be placed in any real location.
Training to extinguish a fire in the actual workplace, learning to choose between different types of extinguishers, the possibility of errors or virtual accidents... Stay tuned for what's coming!
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