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<\/a>Using the resources available at the Hub for Immersive Visualisation and eResearch (The HIVE), Dr Torsten Reiners and his team have started to explore virtual realities for education and training, allowing students to experience potentially dangerous environments and workplaces firsthand. For supply chain management students, it\u2019s important to understand the inherent risks of hazardous environments such as warehouses and shipping container yards.<\/p>\n
Dr Reiners is not one to shy away from the uncomfortable. He notes the importance of students failing. In the case of virtual reality scenario training like those provided using the Oculus Rift, Dr Reiners notes that it\u2019s important that their character can die in the virtual environment. This teaches the student the real-life risks inherent in certain work environments without the actual experience of becoming injured on the job.<\/p>\n Dr Reiners believes that the next step for education is to add supplementary gamification to the coursework \u2013 in other words, to incorporate virtual games where the student must apply the principles they have learnt in traditional classroom environments in order to complete the game or move on to the next level.<\/p>\n The technology will increase the \u2018authenticity\u2019 of the learning experience. Students will be able to walk around a shipping container yard and to pick up and operate machinery and solve problems with on-site hazards. This makes them doubly-ready to encounter the same scenario in the real-world because they have, to a certain extent, seen and solved these problems before.<\/p>\n \u201cThe experience is personal,\u201d says Dr Reiners \u201cIt\u2019s you in there.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Remember the scene in The Matrix when Keanu Reeve\u2019s character learns martial arts in a virtual world?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4275,"featured_media":4946,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","wds_primary_category":3,"wds_primary_research-areas":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"research-areas":[],"class_list":["post-4945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-and-global-community"],"acf":{"post_options":{"":null,"additional_content":{"title":"See The HIVE in action","content":" Want to check out The HIVE?<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a>