An experimental study on distributed virtual environment for integrated training system on machine maintenance

A distributed virtual environment (DVE) has been applied to the development of an integrated training system for machine maintenance work by multiple users. The training system gives two types of training: simultaneous training of an instructor and trainees with multi-modal communication through a computer network (synchronous system); and a monitoring and recording system both for the purpose of pre-training rehearsal and post-training analysis (asynchronous system). It has been experimentally confirmed that the training in the DVE system with multi-modal communication would provide a new type of effective training environment