VR Crane 2.4 Release notes - February 2025

New Cranes, Launcher updates, Customization Features, and more!

Brand NEW Crane Type!

  • Turbine Crane and environment for working on turbine maintenance in Nuclear Power Generation Plants. It includes:
  • 23 Brand new scenarios
  • 19 Brand new loads
  • Completely new environment

New Polar Scenarios & Water updates!
    • 12 new lifting scenarios to challenge or specify operator training plans
    • Water has been added to the pool which will raise/lower for the Reactor Vessel Head scenarios


Excessive swing penalty for teaching best practice but more importantly, Safety!
    • This feature scales to the speed of the crane to better match real-world operations

Overhead Crane rotated cab on the bridge to give users the option to adapt the simulator to service crane features
    • The cab can be rotated which helps give novice operators better sight on the load and matches overhead crane models with rotating cabs

Upper Limit Switch Pre-Use Evaluation for Primary & Auxiliary Hooks

introduces the limit switch as an operational setting in the launcher allowing users to switch between an anti-2-block and a limit switch.

  • Added in both a slow-down check and an Upper Limit check within our pre-use evaluation system that requires operators to now check those functions on top of the normal functions that previously needed to be checked.

    Admins now can swap between a Limit Switch or an Anti-2-Block Device for overhead cranes for even further customization.

Added Japanese Hand Signals for international coverage
    • Substituted the respective hand signals with Japanese standards where applicable. This is useful at ports located in Japan.

Launcher

    • A “My Progress” view was newly added in the Launcher application for checks on completion and scores.



Export Report data to Excel for rolling up learner statistics and supporting reporting needs



Implemented slower crane speeds (bridge, trolley, hoist) to accommodate older operating cranes and functionality to replicate user experience to production cranes

Customer data backup for online customers
Allows for backing up training data without storing exported files.

Real-time weather user interface for Administrators
      • Reports will show any changes in variations compared to the original scenario to better assess the environmental impact on the trainee.



Newly added support for VIVE Focus Vision headset for increased compatibility for different hardware