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JackVR: A Virtual Reality Training System for Landing Oil Rigs

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We propose JackVR, an interactive immersive simulation prototype aiming to train domain experts to land jackup oil rigs. Jackup rigs are among the most common offshore drilling units for extracting oil, but the process of landing the rigs is mostly challenging because of the unpredictable sea and weather conditions, lack of clear vision, and the possible risk of damaging the ocean floor. We designed JackVR to support oil engineers and technicians by allowing them to practice landing the oil rig within a safe and semi-realistic training environment. Furthermore, the design explores various superimposed spatial indicators that provide visual warnings on unexpected task conditions. The implemented prototype supports two modes for training, and utilizes the ray-casting interaction technique to enable seamless and direct control of the rig. ...

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  1. University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada

    Ahmed E. Mostafa, Mario Costa Sousa & Ehud Sharlin

  2. Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

    Kazuki Takashima

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  1. University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada, USA

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  2. NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, USA

    Richard Boyle

  3. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA

    Bahram Parvin

  4. Desert Research Institute, Reno, Nevada, USA

    Darko Koracin

  5. University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA

    Ioannis Pavlidis

  6. IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York, USA

    Rogerio Feris

  7. Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA

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  8. Side Effects Software, Santa Monica, California, USA

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  9. The DiVE, Durham, North Carolina, USA

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  10. Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA

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  11. Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, USA

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  12. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA

    Gunther Weber

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Mostafa, A.E., Takashima, K., Sousa, M.C., Sharlin, E. (2015). JackVR: A Virtual Reality Training System for Landing Oil Rigs. In: Bebis, G., et al. Advances in Visual Computing. ISVC 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9475. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27863-6_42

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