The virtues of virtual reality; Virtual reality is lowering the cost and increasing the efficiency of an ever-expanding variety of power plant tasks. By immersing themselves in computer-generated 3-D environments, technicians can safely practice maintenance procedures at one virtual plant while planners design the next one

With the help of high-tech 2-D goggles and advances in computer visualization, researchers now can simulate life inside a power plant. Termed virtual reality (VR), the technology enables someone to walk through a computer-generated - virtual - power plant and interact with it, performing maintenance...

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