An Immersive Service Guide for Home Appliances Virtual reality is increasingly used in a wide range of applications due to the capabilities of immersive presentation and interaction with realistic 3D content. A broad and potentially prominent area of application of VR are multimedia service and operation guides for home appliances, addressed to both technicians and endusers. In comparison to traditional textual, audio and video guides, VRbased interactive guides can be more adaptable, precise, userfriendly and attractive, which are advantages to both producers and consumers. However, due to the difficulty associated with the creation of such guides, they still gain little attention of manufacturers and distributors of products. In this paper, we present an immersive service guide that illustrates scenarios of repairing and testing induction hobs. The service guide has been developed in the Unity game engine, and runs on smartphones with inexpensive headsets and gesture tracking devices. The guide has been elaborated in cooperation with Amica S.A., which is a major household appliance producer in Poland. The guide can be an important innovation in training of technical staff as well as end users, at the same time serving as a marketing tool, which can attract customers as well as technicians.

Online Training and Monitoring of Robot Tasks through Virtual Reality Currently, the implementation of virtual, augmented and mixed realitiesbased solutions is one of the megatrends in the Industrial Automation domain. In this context, Virtual Reality (VR) permits the development of virtual environments that can be used for different purposes, such as designing, monitoring andor training industrial machinery. Moreover, the access to such environments can be remote, facilitating the interaction of humans with cyber models of realworld systems without the need of being at the system facilities. This article presents a virtual environment that has been developed within VR technologies not only for training and monitoring robot tasks but also to be done at robot operation runtime within an online mode. In this manner, the user of the presented environment is able to train and monitor de tasks at the same time that the robot is operating. The research work is validated within the online training and monitoring tasks of an ABB IRB 14000 industrial robot.