Industrial Training International and the Tennessee Valley Authority have received this year’s Top Innovative Practice Award from the Nuclear Energy Institute.

The XR Association, the trade association representing the growing ecosystem of companies powering virtual, augmented, and mixed reality, is expressing support for the reintroduction of H.R. 3211, the Immersive Technology for the American Workforce Act of 2023, led by Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE) and Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI).

To help train and defend against rapidly evolving cybersecurity threats, SimSpace has expanded its ecosystem to support Cymulate customers to more adequately test real-world tools in their Cyber Force Platform. 

Winston-Salem State University School of Health Sciences will be the first HBCU (Historically Black College and University) in North Carolina to incorporate virtual reality (VR) into the clinical training curriculum for nursing students.

The Sinclair Community College Workforce Development and Health Sciences Divisions are teaming up to provide hands-on training in critical situations to employees from the region’s hospitals and health care facilities.

PPDS, a provider of Philips digital signage, interactive displays, direct view LED and professional TVs, has been selected to install 1,900 of its UHD Philips D-Line digital signage displays to the Tenstar Simulation training facility in Sweden, which will bring advanced and highly immersive simulation experiences to the facility.

Valencia de Alcántara (Cáceres) hosted a seminar on the Indra-led European Valkyries project, which included a fire simulation to standardize and test the harmonized protocols for the nomenclature, processes, equipment and operations developed in the project on a next-generation technology basis.

Tulmar Safety Systems Inc., a provider of safety and survival products and services, has appointed Major-General (retired) David Fraser to its Advisory Board.

Cruden, an integrator of open architecture HIL/DIL driving simulators, simulator components and software, has installed an automotive simulator at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) simulation facility in Germany.  

Echo Healthcare is offering the first-of-its-kind, a Lifecast Body Simulation training manikin specifically focused on inclusive training and managing a child patient with Down Syndrome.