%0 Conference Paper %D 2008 %T A Survey of the Virtual Environments-based Assembly Training Applications %A Gupta,S.K. %A Anand,D. K. %A Brough,J. E. %A Kavetsky,R. A. %A Schwartz,M. %A Thakur,A. %X The advent of virtual environments is presenting new ways of trainingtomorrow’s workforce. Virtual environments offer numerous benefits in training applications. First, virtual environments allow extensive user interactions in a very convenient and natural manner. This interaction is greatly beneficial for increasing the user’s retention of spatial information compared to text-based or video-based instructions that are non-interactive in nature. Second, virtual environments provide users with a 3D immersive experience. This feature helps users gain a better understanding of spatial relationships compared to 2D displays. Third, virtual environments support multi-media instructions. One can watch standard videos, view 3D animations, view text instructions, listen to audio instructions, and interact with 3D objects in the scene. This paper describes representative research and associated systems that use of virtual environments in assembly training applications. %8 2008/// %G eng %U http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.151.2892&rep=rep1&type=pdf