Skip to main content
The Institution of Engineering and Technology iet.tv
Site name
  • Videos
  • Channels
  • Events
  • Series
  • Sign in

Access and Account

Access your personal account

Log in to see your favourites, lists and progress.

This video isn’t available to you right now

Login to check your access and watch the full session

Login
  1. Videos
  2. Video

Drivers for the application of Virtual Reality in industry today

  • WhatsApp
  • Facebook
  • Email
  • LinkedIn
  • Bluesky
CPD This content can contribute towards your Continuing Professional Development (CPD) as part of the IET's CPD Monitoring scheme.
Presentation
  • Session
  • Wednesday, 27 April 2016
  • 10:27 - 10:27
  • Duration: 25 mins
  • Publication date: 04 May 2016
  • Location: Watson Watt, The IET - Savoy Place, London, United Kingdom
  • Part of event Going Beyond Games

About the session

Innovation through visualisation

The film and gaming industries have long been at the forefront of visual effects and immersive technologies, which now, more than ever, are being utilised across the science and engineering community.

The first annual IET Going beyond Games seminar aims to provide delegates with insights into virtual and immersive technologies and how this technology is being applied outside the gaming industry.

The seminar will examine and assess the current technology, explore (through a series of case-studies) ways in which it is currently being successfully applied across science and engineering and look at future opportunities for both gamers and engineers as the technology develops.

Virtual Reality isn’t just about gaming

Virtual Reality offers a wide range of uses beyond gaming with the potential to increase efficiency, save time and reduce costs across a variety of industries and applications.

Whether it’s training surgeons on a virtual patient, planning and prototyping large-scale construction projects, exploring the viability of a virtual design, visualising complex information or experiencing a scenario in a virtual cyber-space; many specialised fields are already investing heavily in Virtual Reality and it is fast becoming an increasingly valuable tool for developers and engineers.

Keywords:
  • 3D Modelling
  • AMRC
  • Assembly
  • BIM Mandate
  • Big Data
  • Boeing
  • Composites
  • Data Linkages
  • Design and Structural Testing
  • HVMC
  • Interconnected Manufacturing Environment
  • Internet of Things
  • IoT
  • Machining
  • Virtual Reality

Channels

Communications

Communications

Speaker

  • Robin W Scott

    Robin W Scott

    Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) , Head of Virtual Reality and Simulation

    Rab Scott is Head of Virtual Reality and Simulation at the University of Sheffield’s Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC). Rab has been a member of the AMRC staff since its beginning and heads a team which delivers Advanced Visualisation solutions across a number of groups within the AMRC with Boeing, the Nuclear AMRC and Factory 2050.He is passionate about the use of advanced techniques to visualise data to improve communication and increase understanding and value.Rab sits on the advisory board for the Industry of Things Summit and on the organising committee for the annual SAE AR/VR Technologies Symposium. Dr Scott also sits on the High Value Manufacturing Catapult VR and Visualisation Forum.
The Institution of Engineering and Technology iet.tv

Address: Futures Place, Kings Way, Stevenage, SG1 2UA

Telephone: +44 (0)33 049 9123

Email:  iet.tv@theiet.org

© 2026 The Institution of Engineering and Technology.

The Institution of Engineering and Technology is registered as a Charity in England & Wales (no 211014) and Scotland (no SC038698). Futures Place, Kings Way, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 2UA, United Kingdom

  • LinkedIn
  • Instagram
  • YouTube
Privacy statement Cookie Preferences Accessibility About us theiet.org Help

Powered by Cadmore Media

Embed Code

<script type="text/javascript" src="https://play.cadmore.media/js/EMBED.js"></script> <div class="cmpl_iframe_div"> <iframe src="https://play.cadmore.media/Player/62a1e354-71dd-47c1-87da-0fbe6981cbe9" scrolling="no" allowtransparency="true" allowautoplay="true" frameborder="0" allow="encrypted-media;autoplay;fullscreen" class="cmpl_iframe" allowfullscreen="" style="overflow: hidden;border: 0px; margin: 0px; height: 100%; width:100%;"></iframe> </div>

Are you sure you want to reset your password?

If so, you will be redirected to the Authentication Service

Title

Prompt