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Virtually the best industrial training
vReact (former name: VTE – Virtual Training Environment) is a powerful 3D virtual training application, based on digital twin, dedicated to field operators of industrial plants, machinery, and equipment.
vReact is designed to increase safety and help personnel become more productive and proactive while delivering greater value to operations and help maximize return on investment.
With vReact, we will help you to transform your traditional training into virtual reality to be even more effective. vReact allows you to train everyday procedures as well as emergency situations in a risk-free, realistic and immersive 3D environment.
vReact training can be used with and without VR goggles. From our experience, we know that not all people like or can use VR headsets. For those, we give an option to experience vReact training on a standard computer using only a traditional mouse, keyboard, and a monitor.
vReact in-app sample screenshots
For whom?
AppsBow’s vReact – 3D | VR training is strictly focused on the industrial market. It’s designed for field operators, process operators, engineers, and trainees for daily procedures and tasks as well as emergency events training.
Besides training vReact has functionality for:
- Logistics.
- Development and services planning.
- Audits: safety, OHS, and others.
- Dimensions measurements.
- New employee touring.
- Fire department emergency operation planning.
Field-proven solution
Our 3D VR training system is already used by gas/oil, chemical, and manufacturing companies around the world.
Our portfolio contains over a dozen of entire industrial plants and pieces of machinery with operating and emergency procedures for field operators as well as operator training simulators.
We will be happy to share contacts with our current clients who use our solutions. Among them, you will find one of the biggest and most modern refineries in Europe, chemical factory and industrial machines manufacturers.
We can also share a demo of our vReact training with you. Just use the request form below.
Added value
Implementation of vReact is a real game-changer. Here you have the lists of benefits.
Problem
Risk of serious or fatal accidents, environmental pollution and jeopardizing process safety.
Solution
Since we developed vReact specifically for the industrial sector we are quite aware that the most important thing on industrial plants and facilities is safety. It’s value cannot be really expressed in any currency.
According to various studies 70 to 90% of accidents are caused by human error. In such a hazardous environment those errors can lead to the plant shut-down, environmental pollution or even fatalities. Historical examples of that kind of events are widely known.
With vReact, virtual training can finally be a part of the safety policy in each company, helping to reduce the risk to a minimum by developing the professional competence of the field personnel.
Problem
Whether planned or unplanned, downtime is always too long. Additionally, as it is generally avoided, in real life there is no practicable way to provide sufficient, hands-on training to the crews for such situations.
Solution
vReact training, replicating the real life environment with high fidelity, allows access to effective training at any time, for how long it is necessary and individually needed, without even being on site.
With vReact it is now possible to train daily procedures/tasks to drive unplanned downtime to zero.
It is also easy to master shut-down and start-up routines in advance and at any time in order to considerably reduce the planned downtime.
Easy and unlimited by plant operation access to training for rare situations is a key benefit here. Each industrial field operator can receive training as many times as it’s necessary to get familiar with a given procedure as if it was every day job.
Problem
How to be prepared for a situation everybody is trying to avoid? How to get hands-on experience in coping with situations, which happen not even once in a lifetime?
Solution
vReact is capable of simulating any imaginable situation, including emergency or even catastrophic events, without any risk to personnel or equipment.
From a minor failure to fully-fledged rescue action – anything can be repeatedly trained in order to master the coping skills. Gain the confidence of a veteran without even going to a real battle!
vReact can replicate in high-fidelity and to a greatest possible extent the specific environment of a site during an emergency event: high noise, limited visibility due to smoke or fumes, wind, rain, fog, fire, handicapped vision due to wearing a chemical resistant suit, and many others.
vReact allows gaining unlimited access to training: any time, for any duration, repeatable as needed, from anywhere.
Everything above will give assurance that we have well-trained staff.
Problem
Employee turnover, retirement of senior staff, insufficient personnel to train new candidates, general relative low qualifications of new candidates.
Solution
Finding ready skilled personnel on the market so in most cases, especially in the case of less popular plants, the need to educate freshly hired staff is a real challenge. To make things even worse, the technical knowledge of the newbies, even in general terms, is quite often insufficient as is the available staff to conduct and oversee the training.
vReact addresses all those issues and more by enabling efficient, unlimited by time or place, type of process or application, compelling training, which does not require overseeing by more experienced personnel,
3D VR training is a computer game-like application, it perfectly suits the new generation of employees, who are very familiar with computers. Using this approach we engage the new staff by sheer fun, sense of competition and achievement, at the same perfecting their professional skills.
It’s worth mentioning that even the senior operator requires periodic training and from time to time needs to retake the training of a procedure that is not performed on a regular basis. vReact can also help the experienced employees to acquire new competence, e.g. when moving to another plant and/or process.
Confident staff with proven competence is priceless.
Problem
Industrial companies are usually large organizations with many internal protocols and policies. Due to formal procedures, lots of paperwork and tight schedules, employees and managers are reluctant to acquire new competence or simply do not have the time to try.
Solution
In contrast to paper manuals, boring e-learning systems, most of the new and current employees are anxious to train using 3D | VR training. It’s fast, effective, and easy to assimilate. Our own experience proves beyod doubt that the vast majority of the employees prefer the interactive solution over a standard learning tools.
3D VR Training is a tool that employees like more and find more effective.
Problem
Costs of employee training, production problems, downtime of the machinery or whole facility, in worst case scenarios fatal accidents and environmental pollution. Resulting financial risks are huge in almost all cases.
Solution
3D VR training thanks to reducing the possibility of human error which causes 70 to 90% emergency events brings savings due to considerable lower numbers of accidents and shortening planned downtimes.
It is not an easy task to come up with a figure, illustrating the profitability of a VR training solution, but if we imagine a chemical plant bringing a humble USD 1 000 000 per year, each day of downtime costs approximately USD 3,000 of lost profit, not to mention the cost of repairs and start-up of the plant.
This is also widely supported by various studies related to e.g. OTS (operator training simulator) implementation for DCS operators since it has been rolled out in the gas/oil industry after an environmental incident in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 (BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill). Data presented in Honeywell’s Special Report (link) supports this approach showing huge savings due to the lower rate of accidents and downtimes.
Less accidents, downtime, incident and near misses can also positively affect risk calculation for a insurance premiums, which adds to the other benefits.
vReact in-app footage
The footage below was recorded in the vReact application.
Training for emergency events
Due to technological advancements, emergency events take place a lot less often. At the same time, they become more dangerous and less expected. vReact is a perfect solution to prepare your crew for unexpected, dangerous, and stressful situations.
Learning system
Our learning system is divided into three or four stages – depends on the client’s request, with or without Ai support.
Performing training with a list of tasks and markers of objects. Marker pointing out the position of each element of the procedure.
Performing training with only a list of actions.
Virtual assistant fully supported by AI and big data acquired during all past training helps trainees when problems or indecision is detected. This stage does not contain a list of tasks nor marked objects. The assistant also gathers the data about each user to understand learning skills.
The system does not provide any hints or tips, training participants must perform the tasks completely by themselves.
Multi-user cooperation
vReact – 3D | VR training allows training in single-user mode and multi-user mode.
Multi-user cooperation is especially dedicated to procedures which require interaction of two or more persons to execute. It allows users to cooperate via the company’s local network and via the internet – between people from different places in the world.
Cooperation mode also gives access to communication tools like text and voice chat, allowing users to speak to each other during the training. It is also possible to use virtual walkie-talkie for even more reality.
Multi-user training enables also the remote but active participation of a supervisor with overseeing and assistance functions.
Meet AL - virtual assistant with Ai support
At the client’s request, we provide a virtual training assistant AL (as a third step in the learning system). Independently from the learning stage during the training virtual assistant gathering knowledge from training sessions started by each user.
Our AI collect the data about the behavior of each person to determine the following:
- The learning curve.
- Possibility of making mistakes in the future.
- Uncertainty factor for decision making.
- Memorization coefficient.
And many others.
Thanks to AI support our clients are able to make better business decisions and give more attention to personnel that requires more time for training.
In the third stage of learning, AL responds directly to the actions of the user. If it spots hesitation in the decision process, mistakes, or slow reactions it will provide relevant and individualized assistance.
AI helps users with appropriate digital facial expressions and sounds.

OTS - DCS operator training
With field operator training AppsBow’s 3D VR system provides an OTS (operator training simulator). It also allows users to train DCS control systems for a process of industrial facilities.
OTS solutions improve asset safety by training operators and engineers on how to respond during quickly changing process conditions to reduce the risk of potential incidents. Well-trained employees react more quickly and counteract before incidents occur.
OTS is focusing on user interfaces and process models to provide hands-on experience to deliver high fidelity training content.
The main aim is to enhance the performance of any kind of plant assets like operators, procedures, and controls.
Streamed vReact training
The popularity of 3D virtual world training applications is growing and so is the demand to use it on any PC without the need for a specialised and expensive computers. Using the latest technology we are providing streaming service of our 3D VR training directly to your browser or even virtual reality headset.
The big advantage of this solution is that the streaming service does not require from our clients anything more than a mid-level PC with broadband and stable internet access and a web browser. Any kind of computer, including laptop, even tablet or smartphone will be able to run the training. wherever and whenever the need be, worldwide.
With our streaming service, we can beam the VR training directly to the VR headsets like Oculus Quest even without a PC and any other device. This gives another opportunity for lowering costs.
Everything in a fully controlled and secure cloud environment provided by our partners:
- Google Cloud Platform.
- Microsoft Azure Cloud.
- Amazon Web Services.
- On a special request, we can provide cloud streaming on any other platform.
For clients with restrictions for using the online cloud, we also provide an internal GPU-based server for streaming 3D VR training in the company’s local network.
Administration and statistics
Along with our 3D VR training, we provide a fully-fledged back-end system to manage the training and users/trainees.
The administration and statistic system is a web-based application with access via a web browser. Thanks to this you a supervisor can easily control access to virtual training via PC, tablet, or phone and see the full statistics of each trainee including:
- Total time of training.
- The number of training taken.
- Positively completed training sessions.
- Negatively finished or incomplete training.
- The learning curve (time/progress).
- And much more. If you wish to know more about our training management system please click the button below.
vReact training without VR goggles
3D VR training is basically a game-like system that can be run like any other software with a fully interactive environment on a computer. We give our users an option to choose in what way they want to access the training software: with or without a VR headset, without detriment to usability and basic functionality of the system, which further increases the accessibility and comfort.
Our 3D VR training system can be experienced with the use of a mouse and a keyboard, a standard monitor, or with a VR headset like Oculus, HTC Vice, and others.
Optimized to reduce costs
Our training system is based on fully optimized digital twins. For this purpose we apply state-of-the-art technology similar to or even better than the one used in game development. In this way we reduce the cost of the necessary hardware required to run the application.
Thanks to our technology, we managed to greatly reduce the hardware requirements so even a mid-level PCs with following specification is still usable:
Hardware specification
Minimal requirements without VR headset.
- OS: Windows 10.
- RAM: 8 GB or more.
- HDD: 15 GB of free memory.
- CPU: Intel i3 or similar AMD.
- Intel HD Graphics 1536 MB / Nvidia GTX 960 / similar AMD.
Minimal requirements with VR headset.
- OS: Windows 10.
- RAM: 8 GB or more.
- HDD: 15 GB of free memory.
- CPU: Intel i3 or similar AMD.
- Nvidia GTX 1080 / similar AMD.
Effectiveness based on reaserch
From the research of Professor Kazimierz T. Kosmowski (Gdansk University of Technology, Gdansk, Poland) we know that 70 to 90% of accidents on plants are caused by the human factor.
These results give us the basis to establish how important it is to properly train our employees in order to minimize the likelihood of them making both smaller as well as critical mistakes.
Analyzing this topic in more detail, we can look at the data from HP Special Report – Clean Fuels, by T. Ayran and P. DE Jonge. It is noted that in the U.S. process plants lose over $ 20 billion a year because of abnormal situations. 8 billion $ (40%) of losses are caused directly by insufficient knowledge and employee errors.
Digitization of training is already a tested solution. We can give here as an example a digitized training for operators called Operator Training Simulators (OTS), which gives the following benefits:
Half of the incidents that were either caused by humans or made more severe by error will be eliminated. A quarter of the incidents that may have been made more severe by human error will be eliminated. The benefit for a refinery should, therefore, be calculated to be a reduction in plant downtime by 15%. But how does this apply to introduce virtual reality?
"People recall information better through virtual reality”
In the article from ScienceDaily titled “People recall information better through virtual reality” prepared on the basis of research carried out at the University of Maryland we can read:
“The researchers found that people remember information better if it is presented to them in a virtual environment. The results of the study were recently published in the journal Virtual Reality.”
and also:
“(…) immersive environments could offer new pathways for improved outcomes in education and high-proficiency training”
Amitabh Varshney, professor of computer science and dean of the College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences at UMD.
Similar theses are also confirmed by Charles E. Baukal, Jr. and Lynna J. Ausburn in the article “Verbal- visual preferences of working engineers” wherein the summary we can read:
“(…) instructional designs for continuing engineering education should be highly visual.”
The effectiveness of training and shortening their time depend on many factors. However, based on many studies, we know that the introduction of virtual training in each case results in increasing the training effectiveness and reduction of costs connected with the training process itself, as well as with the consequences, as the risk factor is reduced.
Thanks to the virtual reality training system, we want to improve security in the workplace thanks to better and more adequately trained employees.
Due to the above, in 2014 we decided to constantly develop our training systems, which resulted in creating vReact.
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