Originated in Taiwan, HTC is a pride of Taiwan that it proves the Taiwanese company can be excellent not only in cellphone OEM/ODM industry but also it is possible to be an OBM which is known to the world. In April 2011, HTC (2498.TW) stock price reached as high as NT$1,300, while stockholders were rejoicing over the seeming success, soon when it came to Q4 2011, however, it announced an income drop of 41.1% compared to the previous quarter. From August till October 2012, the stock price had been lingering around NT$250 to NT$280. Close to Taiwan, Samsung from South Korea has become the number one in the mobile phone sales market in Q2 2012. Reported by Gartner, in Q2 2011, Samsung had taken the market share by 16.3% and it climbed to 21.6% in Q2 2012, which was its first time to defeat Nokia, whose market share was 19.9%. Today, Samsung has been the new leader in the mobile phone industry. Samsung arose from a humble beginning but it is now on the top of the world; however, once always compared side by side, is HTC still able to compete against Samsung today? Samsung has developed its unique competitive advantages to dominate the market. HTC, however, traditionally strong in design, is striving to “coming back,” which was the promise of HTC’s CEO, Peter Chou, in a letter addressing to the employees. Now it’s the high time to review HTC’s strategies in the market. The study collects the resources related to how Samsung, as a successful multinational firm, utilizes competitive strategies, and then analyzes the possibilities to apply those to HTC. It is expected to provide practical suggestions to HTC, with anticipation of its coming back.

SuperCritical Water-cooled Reactors (SCWRs) are one of the six nuclear-reactor concepts currently being developed under the Generation-IV International Forum (GIF). A main advantage of SCW Nuclear Power Plants (NPPs) is that they offer higher thermal efficiencies compared to those of current conventional NPPs. Unlike today’s conventional NPPs, which have thermal efficiencies between 30 ‒ 35%, SCW NPPs will have thermal efficiencies within a range of 45 ‒ 50%, owing to high operating temperatures and pressures (i.e., coolant temperatures as high as 625°C at 25 MPa pressure). The use of current fuel bundles with UO2 fuel at the high operating parameters of SCWRs may cause high fuel centerline temperatures, which could lead to fuel failure and fission gas release. Studies have shown that when the Variant-20 (43-element) fuel bundle was examined at SCW conditions, the fuel centerline temperature industry limit of 1850°C for UO2 and the sheath temperature design limit of 850°C might be exceeded. Therefore, new fuel-bundle designs, which comply with the design requirements, are required for future use in SCWRs. The main objective of this study to conduct a sensitivity analysis in order to identify the main factors that leads to fuel centerline temperature reduction. Therefore, a 54-element fuel bundle with smaller diameter of fuel elements compared to that of the 43-element bundle was designed and various nuclear fuels are examined for future use in a generic Pressure Tube (PT) SCWR. The 54-element bundle consists of 53 heated fuel elements with an outer diameter of 9.5 mm and one central unheated element of 20-mm outer diameter which contains burnable poison. The 54-element fuel bundle has an outer diameter of 103.45 mm, which is the same as the outer diameter of the 43-element fuel bundle. After developing the 54-element fuel bundle, one-dimensional heat-transfer analysis was conducted using MATLAB and NIST REFPROP programs. As a ii result, the Heat Transfer Coefficient (HTC), bulk-fluid, sheath and fuel centerline temperature profiles were generated along the heated length of 5.772 m for a generic fuel channel. The fuel centerline and sheath temperature profiles have been determined at four Axial Heat Flux Profiles (AHFPs) using an average thermal power per channel of 8.5 MWth. The four examined AHFPs are the uniform, cosine, upstream-skewed and downstream-skewed profiles. Additionally, this study focuses on investigating a possibility of using low, enhanced and high thermal-conductivity fuels. The low thermal-conductivity fuels, which have been examined in this study, are uranium dioxide (UO2), Mixed Oxide (MOX) and Thoria (ThO2) fuels. The examined enhanced thermal-conductivity fuels are uranium dioxide – silicon carbide (UO2 - SiC) and uranium dioxide - beryllium oxide (UO2 - BeO). Lastly, uranium carbide (UC), uranium dicarbide (UC2) and uranium nitride (UN) are the selected high thermal-conductivity fuels, which have been proposed for use in SCWRs. A comparison has been made between the low, enhanced and high thermal-conductivity fuels in order to identify the fuel centerline temperature behaviour when different nuclear fuels are used. Also, in the process of conducting the sensitivity analysis, the HTC was calculated using the Mokry et al. correlation, which is the most accurate supercritical water heat-transfer correlation so far. The sheath and the fuel centerline temperature profiles were determined for two cases. In Case 1, the HTC was calculated based on the Mokry et al. correlation, while in Case 2, the HTC values calculated for Case 1 were multiplied by a factor of 2. This factor was used in order to identify the amount of decrease in temperatures if the heat transfer is enhanced with appendages. Results of this analysis indicate that the use of the newly developed 54-element fuel bundle along with the proposed fuels is promising when compared with the iii Variant-20 (43-element) fuel bundle. Overall, the fuel centerline and sheath temperatures were below the industry and design limits when most of the proposed fuels were examined in the 54-element fuel bundle, however, the fuel centerline temperature limit was exceeded while MOX fuel was examined. / UOIT

Virtual Reality har existerat i olika former runt 80 år tillbaka, men i dess nuvarande form har den en mer signifikant plats på marknaden. Med detta behövs mer forskning på hur VR fungerar och hur människor påverkas av VR för att kunna utveckla produkter till detta växande medium. Forskningen är idag bristande, så för att bredda förståelsen om VR och framförallt VR som konsol för spel har den här kvalitativa studien undersökt hur skräckelement upplevs i en VR-miljö. Studien undersökte även vad som kan påverka “immersion”, fördjupning i miljön, samt om tidigare erfarenheter kan påverka upplevelser i en VR-miljö. Dessa frågor analyserades utifrån två speltest som gjordes på VR-konsolen HTC Vive. Första speltestet fokuserade på kontroller och “immersion” för att se hur pass lättförstådd och intuitiv konsolen är. Det andra testet undersökte skräckelement i VR och vad för slags element kunde bidra till en mer effektiv och intensiv skräckupplevelse. Totalt deltog 16 personer mellan 19-26 år i speltesterna. Deltagarna var studenter vid Karlstad Universitet eller hade tidigare varit det. Deltagarna blev indelade i olika grupper baserade på tidigare erfarenhet inom spel (första testet) och skräck (andra testet). Med hjälp av observation av videoinspelningar och intervjuer kunde den insamlade datan delas in i teman. De teman som användes för att analysera datan var kontroller, obehag/desorientering, “immersion” och skräckelement. Resultaten visade att HTC Vive har goda förutsättningar för “immersion”. Dock med några problematiska faktorer, utrustning exempelvis, som störde upplevelsen. Trots detta skapade konsolen en stark känsla av “immersion” då deltagarna upplevde sig närvarande i VR-miljön på grund av sådant som bakgrundsljud och naturligt perspektiv på VR-miljön i headsetet. Det som spelade störst roll för “immersion” var att miljön behövde agera verklighetstroget, alltså som spelaren förväntar sig. Den sortens närvaro bidrog positivt till skräckupplevelsen då spelarna tycktes uppleva sig hotade av skräckelementen som att det var riktat mot dem personligen och inte bara en karaktär i ett spel. Gällande skillnader mellan grupperna i erfarenhet fanns det inte många substantiella skillnader. Det kunde märkas lite skillnad i hur kontrollerna hanterades mellan de spelerfarna och icke erfarna. De med tidigare erfarenhet tycktes ha med sig förväntningar om hur kontrollerna skulle fungera. Studien hade, på grund av dess kvalitativa natur, inte möjlighet att få fram generaliserbara resultat. Dock så öppnade den upp för frågor till framtida forskning gällande både VR-spel och dess användare samt om VR-konsoler. / Virtual Reality has existed in different forms since around 80 years ago, but in its current form it has a more significant place on the current market. With this change, more research on how VR works and how humans are affected by it is needed to be able to develop products for this growing medium. The research today is lacking, so to expand the understanding of VR and specifically VR as a console for games, this qualitative study has researched how elements of fear are experienced in a VR-environment. The study also studied what can affect “immersion”, depth in the environment, as well as if previous experience can affect experiences in a VR-environment. These questions were analyzed based on two game tests that were made on the VR-console HTC Vive. The first test focused on controls and “immersion” to see how intuitive and easily understood the console is. The second test examined horror elements in VR and what kinds of elements could contribute to a more effective and intense horror experience. A total of 16 people between the ages of 19-26 participated in the game tests. The participants were students at Karlstad University, or had previously been so. The participants were divided in different kinds of groups depending on previous experiences in digital games (the first test) and horror (the second test). With the help of observation of the video recordings and the interviews the collected data could be divided into themes. The themes used to analyze the data were controls, disorientation/discomfort, “immersion” and horror elements. The results showed that HTC Vive have good qualifications for “immersion”. Though with a few problematic factors, the equipment for example, which disturbed the experience. Despite this, the console created a strong feeling of “immersion” as the participants experienced themselves to be present in the VR-environment because of factors such as background noise and a natural point-of-view of the VR-environment through the headset. The biggest contributor for “immersion” was that the environment needed to have a natural and believable behavior, acting the way the user expects it to. This kind of presence contributed positively to the horror experience as the participants seemed to believe themselves to be threatened by the horror elements as if it was directed at them personally and not just a character in a game.   In the subject of differences between the groups in experience there not a lot of substantial differences. A small difference could be found regarding how the controls were handled between the different groups of game experience. The participants with previous experience seemed to bring expectations about how the controls should work. The study had, because of its qualitative nature, no possibility to receive generalizable results. But the study did open up for questions for future research related to VR-games and their users, as well as VR-consoles.

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Ce travail porte sur la modélisation des supraconducteurs à haute temperature critique (SHTC) et il est realisé dans le cadre du projet européen BIG–POWA. Ce projet réunit partenaires industriels et universitaires et a comme objectif la conception et l'exploitation de nouveaux câbles SHTC à base de fil OPIT Bi-2223, en particulier pour usage alternatif. Le but de ce travail est l'amélioration du modèle numérique supraconducteur récemment introduit dans le logiciel de calcul par éléments finis Flux3D®. Le modèle numérique utilise des modèles macroscopiques et permet accéder aux différentes grandeurs électromagnétiques. Pour faire évoluer le modèle on a integré le caractère anisotrope des phénomènes et on a pris en compte le caractère axisymetrique de certains dispositifs. Une approche expérimentale (mesures de pertes AC, études en régime de surintensité) permet de valider et de compléter la partie modélisation.

Heat transfer experiments were done on a flat plate to study the effect of internal counter-flow backside cooling on adiabatic film cooling effectiveness and heat transfer coefficient. In addition, the effects of density ratio (DR), blowing ratio (BR), diagonal length over diameter (L/D) ratio, and Reynolds number were studied using this new configuration. The results are compared to a conventional plenum fed case. Data were collected up to X/D =23 where X=0 at the holes, an S/D = 1.65 and L/D=1,2. Testing was done at low L/D ratios since short holes are normally found in double wall cooling applications in turbine components. A DR of 2 was used in order to simulate engine-like conditions and this was compared to a DR of 0.92 since relevant research is done at similar low DR. The BR range of 0.5 to 1.5 was chosen to simulate turbine conditions as well. In addition, previous research shows that peak effectiveness is found within this range. Infrared (IR) thermography was used to capture temperature contours on the surface of interest and the images were calibrated using a thermocouple and data analyzed through MATLAB software. A heated secondary fluid was used as 'coolant' in the present study. A steady state heat transfer model was used to perform the data reduction procedure. Results show that backside cooling configuration has a higher adiabatic film cooling effectiveness when compared to plenum fed configurations at the same conditions. In addition, the trend for effectiveness with varying BR is reversed when compared with traditional plenum fed cases. Yarn flow visualization tests show that flow exiting the holes in the backside cooling configuration is significantly different when compared to flow exiting the plenum fed holes. We hypothesize that backside cooling configuration has flow exiting the holes in various directions, including laterally, and behaving similar to slot film cooling, explaining the differences in trends. Increasing DR at constant BR shows an increase in adiabatic effectiveness and HTC in both backside cooling and plenum fed configurations due to the decreased momentum of the coolant, making film attachment to the surface more probable. The effects of L/D ratio in this study were negligible since both ratios used were small. This shows that the coolant flow is still underdeveloped at both L/D ratios. The study also showed that increasing turbulence through increasing Reynolds number decreased adiabatic effectiveness. / MS / Gas turbine engines are used for multiple applications for power (power plants) or thrust (aircraft propulsion). Engine efficiency is correlated with higher working temperatures, which exceed the melting points of the materials being used. Therefore, more efficient cooling techniques are needed in order to protect the engine turbine components, such as blades and vanes. Relatively cooler air is bypassed from the compressor to the turbine section to cool the turbine components from the high temperatures. The air flows through the turbine components and out through machined holes referred to as film cooling holes. A protective layer, or film, protects the external region of the blade or vane. Previous research has found that the geometry of the airfoils used and the flow conditions play a major role in heat transfer. Most of the relevant research use a model that contains one-sided heat transfer. The present study focuses on combined backside and film cooling heat transfer, with different geometries and flow conditions, using a steady-state model for the data reduction procedure.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:22:59Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2008-03-05Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:10:13Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 bianchi_j_me_rcla.pdf: 700606 bytes, checksum: e0d730f76b54734539c18e1d9a52fbe4 (MD5) / Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) / Os agrotóxicos, substâncias químicas muito utilizadas para combater pragas na agricultura e nas residências, além de contribuírem para o aumento da produtividade e, conseqüentemente, o crescimento economia, também são responsáveis pela contaminação ambiental, quando utilizados indiscriminadamente, e por muitos casos de intoxicações e doenças genéticas nos seres humanos. Dependendo de sua composição química, degradabilidade e persistência no ambiente, os agrotóxicos podem comprometer a cadeia alimentar e afetar o ecossistema como um todo. Dentre os agrotóxicos bastante utilizados em todo o mundo, está o organofosforado malation. Pelo seu amplo uso, torna-se preocupante os possíveis danos que este inseticida possa promover no meio ambiente e nos organismos a ele expostos, pois alguns trabalhos já mostram esta sua ação detrimental. Desta forma, este trabalho investigou o potencial de indução de danos no DNA, para diferentes concentrações de malation, por meio das técnicas de aberrações cromossômicas e teste do micronúcleo em A. cepa e micronúcleo e ensaio do cometa em células HTC (hepatoma tissue culture). Nos testes com células meristemáticas e F1 de A. cepa, expostas por 24 e 48 horas ao malation, foram verificadas freqüências significativamente elevadas de AC e MN. Após 24 horas de exposição, não houve aumento na quantidade de AC, mas sim de MN. A análise das células F1 de A. cepa, juntamente com o teste de AC, forneceu dados importantes sobre a fixação dos danos genéticos induzidos pelo malation. Nenhum resultado relevante de citotoxicidade foi verificado em A. cepa. Após passarem pelo teste de recuperação, somente as células expostas às menores concentrações testadas apresentaram diminuição nos índices de AC e MN. / Pesticides, chemicals widely used to combat pest in agriculture and in homes, besides contribute to the increase productivity and the economy, are also responsible for environmental pollution and for many intoxications cases and genetic diseases in human beings. Depending on their chemical composition, degradability and degree of persistence in the environment, the pesticides can endanger the food chain and affect the entire ecosystem. Among the pesticides most used in the world is the organophosphate malathion. Due to its widespread use it has been worrying the possible damages that can promote this insecticide in the environment and in organisms exposed to it. This study investigated the induction potential of DNA damage with several malathion concentrations using chromosomic aberration (CA) techniques, micronucleus test (MN) in A. cepa and micronucleus and comet assay in hepatoma tissue culture (HTC). In A. cepa tests, meristematic and F1 cells exposed for 24 and 48 hours to malathion showed significative frequencies of CA and MN. After 24 hours of exposure, there was no increase in the CA amounts, but was observed an increase to frequency of MN. The F1 cells analysis, together with the CA tests, provided important data on the genetic damages fixation induced by malathion. No relevant results of citotoxicity were verified in A. cepa. After the recovery test, the cells exposed to the smaller tested concentrations of malathion showed reduction of AC and MN indices. In the HTC cells test, was verified by the comet assay, genotoxic effects for all the tested concentrations, after exposure for 24 hours to the insecticide, but by the micronucleus tests, no significative results were found. These data suggest that the DNA lesions were repaired and not elapsed in mutation. With the concomitant realization of different tests, the clastogenic action of malathion could be verified.

L'obésité constitue l'un des principaux problèmes de santé publique en ce début du 21ème siècle. Sa prévalence augmente régulièrement, en particulier chez les enfants. Ce constat n'est pas anodin car l'obésité est généralement associée à diverses pathologies graves (diabète de type 2, hypertension et cancer,…). Ainsi, des investigations sur les mécanismes impliqués dans la perception gustative des lipides alimentaires pourraient éclairer leurs rôles dans l’incidence de l’obésité.Plusieurs études ont démontré le rôle des endocannabinoïdes et des aliments amers dans l’obésité. Ainsi, nous avons étudié l’interaction (cross-talk) des récepteurs cannabinoïdes et du goût amer avec le goût lipidique. Cette thèse comporte ainsi deux volets : les récepteurs cannabinoïdes (CB1R), le goût amer et leurs interactions avec les récepteurs lipidiques.Dans la première partie, nous avons étudié le rôle régulateur de CB1R. Dans la présente étude, des tests comportementaux sur des souris CB1R-/- et des souris de type sauvage (WT) ont montré que l'invalidation du gène Cb1r était associée à une faible préférence pour les solutions contenant de l'huile de colza ou un acide gras à longue chaîne (AGLC) tel que l’acide linoléique (LA). L'administration de rimonabant, un agoniste-inverse de CB1R, chez la souris a également entraîné une faible préférence pour les acides gras alimentaires. Aucune différence dans l'expression des protéines CD36 et GPR120 n'a été observée dans les cellules des papilles gustatives des souris WT et CB1R-/-. La signalisation calcique via CD36 dans les cellules des papilles gustatives des souris CB1R-/- diminue de façon significative par rapport à celle observée dans les cellules gustatives des souris WT. Les cellules des papilles gustatives des souris CB1R-/- présentent également une diminution significative de l'ARNm de Pro-glucagon et de Glp-1r et un faible niveau basal de GLP-1. Nous rapportons que CB1R est impliqué dans la perception du goût du gras via la signalisation calcique et la sécrétion de GLP-1.Dans la seconde partie, nous avons d’abord caractérisé le phénotype de cellules fongiformes humaines (HTC-8). En effet, le projet de ma thèse comprend la caractérisation à l’échelle moléculaire des récepteurs amers et lipidiques et leur cross-talk dans ces cellules (collaboration BRAIN, Allemagne). Nous avons démontré que les cellules HTC-8 expriment PLCβ2 et l’α-gustducin à l’échelle des ARNm et des protéines. Elles expriment également TAS2R16 et TAS2R38 et ces mêmes cellules co-expriment CD36 et GPR120. Puis, nous avons étudié la signalisation via ces récepteurs en utilisant l’acide linoléique, un agoniste de CD36 et GPR120, la sinigrin, agoniste de TAS2R16 et TAS2R38, la salicin, agoniste du récepteur TAS2R16 et le phénylthiocarbamide, agoniste du récepteur TAS2R38. De plus, les études du signal calcique ont démontré que la signalisation en aval du goût gras partage une voie commune avec la signalisation en aval du goût amer, mettant en évidence un cross-talk entre ces deux modalités gustatives.Bien que nous ayons montré le cross-talk entre les modalités gustatives amère et lipidique, il nous reste à étudier ces phénomènes à l’échelle de l’organisme. Ces résultats, d’ores et déjà, montrent que le goût amer et le récepteur cannabinoïde-1 sont liés à la sensibilité au goût du gras et doivent être pris en compte pour la gestion de l'obésité. / Obesity is one of the major public health problems at the beginning of the 21st century. Its prevalence is increasing steadily, especially among children. This observation is not insignificant because obesity is generally associated with various serious pathologies (type 2 diabetes, hypertension and cancer, etc.). Thus, investigations into the mechanisms involved in the taste perception of dietary lipids could shed light on their roles in the incidence of obesity.Several studies have demonstrated the role of endocannabinoids and bitter foods in obesity. Thus, we studied the cross-talk of cannabinoid receptors and bitter taste with lipid taste. This thesis has two components: cannabinoid receptors (CB1R), bitter taste and their interactions with lipid receptors.In the first part, we studied the regulatory role of CB1R. In the present study, behavioral tests on CB1R-/- mice and wild-type (WT) mice showed that the invalidation of the Cb1r gene was associated with a low preference for solutions containing rapeseed oil or a long chain fatty acid (LCFA) such as linoleic acid (LA). Administration of rimonabant, a CB1R inverse agonist, in mice also resulted in a low preference for dietary fatty acids. No differences in the expression of CD36 and GPR120 proteins were observed in the taste buds cells of the WT and CB1R-/- mice. Calcium signaling via CD36 in the taste bud cells of CB1R-/- mice decreased significantly compared with those observed in the taste cells of WT mice. The taste bud cells of CB1R-/- mice also show a significant decrease in Pro-glucagon and Glp-1r mRNA and a low basal level of GLP-1. We report that CB1R is involved in the perception of fat taste via calcium signaling and secretion of GLP-1.In the second part, we first characterized the phenotype of human fungiform cells (HTC-8). Indeed, the project of my thesis includes the characterization on the molecular scale of bitter and lipid receptors and their cross-talk in these cells (collaboration BRAIN, Germany). We have demonstrated that HTC-8 cells express PLCβ2 and α-gustducin at the mRNA and protein level. They also express TAS2R16 and TAS2R38 and these same cells co-express CD36 and GPR120. Then, we studied signaling via these receptors using linoleic acid, a CD36 and GPR120 agonist, sinigrin, TAS2R16 agonist and TAS2R38, salicin, TAS2R16 receptor agonist, and phenylthiocarbamide, TAS2R38 receptor agonist. In addition, calcium signal studies have shown that downstream fatty signaling shares a common path with downstream bitter taste signaling, highlighting a cross-talk between these two taste modalities.Although we have shown the cross-talk between bitter and lipid taste modalities, we still have to study these phenomena at the level of the organism. These results, already, show that the bitter taste and the cannabinoid-1 receptor are related to the taste sensitivity of fat and must be taken into account for the management of obesity

Virtuell träning är ett viktigt sätt att utbilda tekniker för att förbereda dem för underhållsarbete i verkligheten. Tekniker som utbildas för att utföra underhållsarbete på JAS 39 Gripen, genomför delar av utbildningen genom programmet Virtual Maintenance Trainer (VMT), som kan återge en detaljerad simulering av flygplanet under drift. Teknikerna kan delta i lektioner med specifika uppgifter som inkluderar att felsöka interna datorer och delar av flygplanet samt utföra underhållsarbete för att åtgärda fel. Programmet är dock skrivbordsbaserat och för att göra utbildningen mer effektiv, finns det en önskan om att utforska möjligheterna i virtual och augmented reality. Denna rapport undersöker alternativen för utbildningsverktyg i virtual reality och augmentedreality genom en teoretisk undersökning. I undersökningen vägs fördelar och nackdelar för nuvarande implementeringar för att tillhandahålla ett optimalt system som kan fungera för att ge tekniker praktisk erfarenhet i en realitisk träningssimulering. Baserat på resultaten från undersökningen och genom att använda spelmotorn Unity, har enprototypsapplikation skapats som kan simulera teknikerutbildning på en modell av JAS 39 Gripen. HTC Vive och Leap Motion användes för att låta användaren kliva in i simuleringsvärlden och för att möjliggöra realistisk interaktion. En tekniker kan lära sig att utföra underhållsåtgärder genom att genomföra olika träningsförfaranden i simuleringen genom att gå runt och interagera med ett fullskaligt Gripen-flygplan. / Virtual training is a vital way of educating technicians to make them prepared for real maintenance work. Technicians that are educated to perform maintenance work on JAS 39 Gripen, complete parts of their training through the application Virtual Maintenance Trainer (VMT), which can provide a detailed simulation of the aircraft during operation. The technicians are able to complete courses and lessons with specific procedures such as debugging internal computers and parts of the aircraft and performing maintenance work to fix errors. However, the application is desktop-based and to make the education even more effective, there is a desire to explore the possibilities in virtual and augmented reality. This report explores the alternatives of education tools in virtual reality and augmented reality through a survey. In the survey, the advantages and disadvantages of current implementations are examined to provide an optimal system which could work to give technicians a realistic practical training simulation experience. Based on the results of the survey and by using the game engine Unity, a prototype application is built which can simulate technician training procedures on a model of JAS 39 Gripen. HTC Vive and Leap Motion were used to immerse the user into the simulation world and to enable realistic interaction. A technician may be able to learn through completing different training procedures in the simulation by walking around and interacting with a full-scaled Gripen aircraft.