A CAVE/Desktop Collaborative Virtual Environment for Offshore Oil Platform Training

Collaborative Virtual Environments (CVEs) enable engaging training simulations in several areas, such as medicine, military, engineering as well as in the oil and gas industry. CVEs allow multiple users to interact with one another through the simulation. A CAVE system is composed of a number of walls, floor (and eventually ceiling as well) which receive 3D projections, surrounding its user. Such setup provides an increased imersiveness experience to the user, which makes a given simulation to become more realistic, which is desirable if a training application is to provide useful experience to a given user. This work introduces a CVE which enables the communication between an immersive user environment (in a CAVE setup) with a trainer interface which runs in a desktop setup. The application focuses on training in an offshore oil platform.