Development of virtual training platform of injection molding machine based on VR technology

Virtual reality has wide applications in many domains in recent years. It supports a real-time, immersive and interactive simulation technology to approve training effect. Injection molding machine is one of the most important but dangerous machines. To ensure safe operation, the development of a complete safe program of training is really essential. This article proposed a visual simulator based on virtual reality for the training of an injection molding machine. It can assist students in learning to operate this machine but without actually handling a real machine.

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