College created a 4 Person VR play space for simulating nuclear disasters for training.

[displaynamehere]

First post on this forum but thought you might all find this very interesting. 

 

I am studying at a college that specialises in nuclear. They have dedicated a room to VR and inside have 4 HTC Vive Pro's with the wireless kits, as well as 4 PC's with an i9 7940X, GTX 1080, and 32GB ram each. 

 

The idea is that for us who are training to work in the nuclear power industry, the VR can simulate scenarios that would be very dangerous for us to train in or impossible. One such scenario could be where a radioactive source must be contained and dealt with, or one I have done is putting out a electrical fire (selecting the correct type of extinguisher) and then dealing with a casualty. All in a smoke filled room. 

 

This is one application I think VR is very good for because especially with nuclear, there is lots of training we undergo in the case of an emergency. However simulating an emergency can be quite hard, and in VR it is safe to make mistakes

[Sakkura]

That's pretty damn cool. Nice (and a bit surprising) to hear the multiple wireless kits don't cause interference problems.

[Aimi]

So you have a room just for Fallout 4 VR? :^)

[displaynamehere]

8 minutes ago, Sakkura said:

That's pretty damn cool. Nice (and a bit surprising) to hear the multiple wireless kits don't cause interference problems.

Well, the person who is in charge of all the VR left the college as the wireless kits came. So I don't think all have been tested at once.

 

They also haven't figured out how to stop the 4 people in the same room walking into each other yet. To move, you can physically move or use your right hand press the thumb button which moves you in the direction you are looking. So where each person is in VR isn't necessarily where they are in the play space. 

 

5 minutes ago, Aimi said:

So you have a room just for Fallout 4 VR? :^)

I wish, so far not persuaded them to let me play games. 

 

Still working on it though! 

[Hiya!]

Any simulation in case of a nuclear attack?

That could come in handy..because no one would try to hide inside a fridge..

[wasab]

Why do I see steam on there? 

[Totally Average Gameplay]

Let me in! Let me iiiiiin!

[aezakmi]

On 3/23/2019 at 12:35 PM, displaynamehere said:

I wish, so far not persuaded them to let me play games. 

however steam is there

[displaynamehere]

On 3/24/2019 at 7:40 PM, aezakmi said:

however steam is there

They use Steam VR to launch the simulator, won't claim to fully understand it but when launching it steam is needed for calibrating the controllers and setting the play space I think. There's nothing else on the steam account.