US Air Force sees the power of VR
The USAF has opened a new VR maintenance training facility at Little Rock AFB. The 10-station Virtual Reality Maintenance Center, developed by Mass Virtual, is used to train C-130J maintenance technicians.
The USAF has officially opened its C-130J Virtual Reality Maintenance Center (VRMC) at Little Rock AFB in Arkansas.
The VRMC comprises 10 VR training stations and sees the air force working in partnership with Orlando-based Mass Virtual. According to 19th Airlift Wing, the new training facility ‘will afford maintenance airmen the ability to become more proficient on mission-essential tasks; all within a controlled environment’.
‘It’s pretty unlimited to what tasks we can complete in VR,’ explained MSgt Nick Massingill, 19th Maintenance Group development and instruction section chief.
‘Currently we have fully immersive interactive maintenance tasks as well as some
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