Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality Are the Training Tools of the Future | Robotics

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Virtual reality and augmented reality are not just for games. At the offices of Epsilon Systems Solutions Inc., in an ordinary office park in Norfolk, Va., a human being can put on virtual reality goggles with a microphone and talk to a trainer in a different time zone and be trained on maintenance procedures inside the torpedo room of a U.S. attack submarine.

To the user at Epsilon Systems in Virginia, the look, feel and experience is identical to being on the actual submarine, with identica…