Virtual reality offers significant potential for training applications.
Although VR technologies have been used for training applications in the past, they have required very powerful and expensive computing systems. The purpose of this project is to develop a low-cost training system and to evaluate the use of VR in such a system. The training application chosen, in cooperation with the Advanced Research Projects Agency, is a maintenance training for National Guard personnel. Financial constraints and a lack of equipment make it difficult to train in the limited amount of time available. The system uses accurate three-dimensional graphical models of the interior of the vehicles to provide the realism needed for good training.