Industrial VR safety training

VR training · environment and asset work

A crane lift in a headset has no fixed camera. The scene has to read from wherever the trainee stands, and the hazard they are there to spot can never fall into shadow.

Role: Art Lead
Engine: Unity
Modelled in: Blender
Platform: Meta Quest 3 / 3S

VR training scene: a mobile crane lifting a steel vat tank inside a coned exclusion zone, with three workers in hi-vis looking on — Vat tank lift. Real-time in Unity, captured in engine.

Overview

The training covers hazardous-energy safety and the framework used to identify and control energy sources on a site. Trainees work through hazard scenarios in a headset rather than off a slide deck or filling in forms.

I built the entire environment, from layout to modelling and lighting.

Environment

Building for a headset rather than a frame

The scene is a controlled lift: a tank on the hook, an exclusion zone in cones and tape, and spotters positioned where the trainee has to notice them. The scenario has to be readable according to the placement of the trainee, accounting for any possible movement or change of spatial location.

The lighting is flat and even on purpose. A stronger key would throw the exclusion zone into shadow and cost the trainee the thing they are being asked to spot.

Wide view of the same lift scene showing the full site, shed and boundary — The wider scene: full exclusion zone, site boundary and approach.

The same scene with wireframe drawn over the shaded geometry — Wireframe over the shaded scene. The density goes where the trainee looks.

Untextured clay render of the scene showing form and silhouette — Clay pass. Silhouette and proportion before material work.

Asset

Mobile crane

The hero prop for the scene, modelled from reference of a Liebherr LTM class all-terrain crane.