VR Technologies in Personnel Training and Development
Immersive technologies - virtual and augmented reality technologies - have been put to good use in higher and special education due to their faculty of acquiring and accumulating experience that is similar to the real one. Under conditions that imitate natural processes, employees drill operating procedures in dangerous situations without any real risk of loss of life or bodily harm, in situations of stress or discomfort. The number of runs is unlimited and they could go on ad lib until the positive result has been achieved. The training effect of such a course is higher than in the case of the traditional approach - lectures, seminars, workshops. Immersive technologies are used to train professional skills inpilots, retail staff, drivers, medical staff, machine operators. Virtual reality technologies find active proliferation in advanced research - in pharmacology, organic chemistry, medicine. Moscow Metropolitan Governance Yury Luzhkov University develops VR simulators to form and consolidate universal professional competences in public sector workers. Plans have been made for the future to build equipment, which will upgrade procedures of testing and assessment for Moscow Government structures’ personnel.