zSpace, a mixed-reality (MR) education provider based out of Sunnyvale, California, has partnered with Mimbus, a provider of vocational training tools, to offer a new welding application and hand-held simulator for welders and boilermakers. Mixed-reality is the merging of real and virtual worlds to produce new environments and visualizations where physical and digital objects co-exist and interact in real time.
This new simulator, called the Wave NG, uses zSpaceÂ’s mixed-reality environment to give students hands-on welding training through a series of exercises, which can be performed with the hand-held welding simulator. Using the zSpace platform, students receive a multisensory training experience, welding from multiple angles while using their eyes, ears, and hands to master core skills of the welder’s trade such as concentration, precision, and dexterity. It is a completely new way to offer young welders training.