Using VRML for Teaching and Training in Industry

Lifelong learning and training has become an important issue in industry, because keeping track of innovations and adopting new developments is necessary for maintaining competitiveness in the market. In this paper we want to show how VRML can be generally used for teaching and training in an industrial context. We will discuss some aspects and outline several application scenarios for VRML based training. Moreover, we give an overview of tools that are suitable for designing teaching applications, and present authoring tools we have developed in this context.