Professional Excellence Using Immersive Technologies

What is professional excellence in VR? Let's break down how it works and what benefits it provides.

It involves using an immersive (creating a full immersion effect) environment for:

• training new skills without risk;
• practicing and perfecting complex procedures to automaticity;
• simulating emergency or rare situations;
• improving qualifications and mastering new technologies.

🏆 At the annual festival of professions of JSC Gazstroyprom – "Stroy-Geroy", VR simulators are used to assess the skills of specialists in the field of industrial environmental control. In 2025, such a simulator was a key element of the competition for environmentalists.

The essence of the task: Specialists wearing VR headsets enter a virtual construction site, where they must find and correctly record environmental safety violations.

Operating modes: The simulator has several modes – "Training" (with hints), "Exam" (timed), and "Report Generation" for analyzing actions.

Evaluation criteria: Participants' results are evaluated based on three parameters – completion time, number of violations found, and the correctness of decisions made.

Purpose of application: The technology allows for an objective and fair assessment of competencies in conditions as close to reality as possible, but without risks to production.

Strength is in professionalism: winners of the "Stroy-Geroy 2025" festival determined in Sakhalin

💡 Why do we use VR for environmental control?

• Safety and realism: Employees can practice actions in emergency or abnormal situations without endangering themselves or the facility.
• Increased training efficiency: An immersive environment promotes better material retention and practical skill development. VR headsets block external stimuli, allowing a person to concentrate 100% on the task – this increases the efficiency of learning the material.
• Cost reduction: There is no need to spend resources on materials, fuel, expensive equipment, stop the production process for training, or rent special sites.
• Objective assessment: The system automatically records all user actions, which eliminates subjectivity when testing knowledge.
• Analytics and feedback: The system can track every eye movement, action, and decision of the trainee. This allows for detailed feedback, identifying weak points, and measuring progress.
• Accessibility and scalability: A single developed VR course can be replicated for thousands of employees across the country.
• Reducing the "human factor": According to research, the "human factor" accounts for 35% to 70% of the causes of industrial incidents. Practicing procedures on a simulator helps reduce this risk.

The experience of the "Stroy-Geroy" festival shows that VR simulators are not just a technological novelty, but a fully-fledged tool for training and evaluating specialists, which is already changing approaches to industrial training today.

🔬Promising company development and trends

• Augmented Reality (AR): Instructions and diagrams will be overlaid directly onto real equipment via AR glasses (e.g., Microsoft HoloLens).
• Tactile feedback (Haptics): Special gloves and suits will allow users not only to see but also to feel virtual objects.

• Artificial Intelligence (AI): The implementation of AI will allow the creation of "smart" virtual mentors and adaptive scenarios that adjust to the trainee's level.

Professional excellence using immersive technologies is no longer science fiction, but a real tool that makes specialist training faster, cheaper, and, most importantly, of higher quality. It is an investment in human capital that pays off by reducing the number of accidents, increasing productivity, and creating highly qualified personnel who are confident in their actions. 💎