Booth 121 demos target the first-exposure problem in four of industry’s highest-hazard workplaces: offshore rigs, work at height, the airport apron, and the railyard

Adaptive Immersion will demonstrate four families of industrial-safety virtual-reality training scenarios at the Augmented Enterprise Summit 2026, the 13th edition of the enterprise XR conference, October 13–15 at the Marriott Marquis Atlanta. At booth 121, attendees can step into offshore oil rig safety, working at extreme heights, airport ground operations and aircraft maintenance, and railroad environment familiarization.

The four demos share a single thesis: across high-hazard industries, the most dangerous day is the first one, because the environment’s hazards are learned by exposure — and first exposure usually happens on the job. Falls to a lower level killed 389 construction workers in 2024, 37.6 percent of all construction fatalities, according to OSHA. On Gulf offshore platforms, slips, trips, and falls became the largest reported injury category in the most recent measured year, at 22 percent of incidents reported to BSEE. IATA projects aircraft ground damage will approach $10 billion annually by 2035 on current trends. Each number describes a different industry; all three describe workplaces that teach through cues most new workers have never seen.

“Every one of these workplaces speaks to its people — a beacon light, a red zone, wet grating, stored energy behind a panel,” said Dr. Phillip M. Mangos, CEO and Chief Scientist of Adaptive Immersion. “Experienced workers hear it. New workers don’t yet. What we’re bringing to Atlanta is the rehearsal room: a place where a rig hand can walk the platform, a ramp agent can learn the apron’s warnings, and a rail maintainer can take a locomotive apart with their hands — all before the first shift where it counts.”

The booth demo set was shaped by Adaptive Immersion’s audience. Across three public LinkedIn Live sneak previews, viewers submitted requests for the zones, tasks, and failure modes they most wanted to see in the headset, and the Atlanta demos reflect those requests.

The Augmented Enterprise Summit is the largest and longest-running event dedicated to enterprise and industrial applications of XR, AI, digital twins, and related technologies. Adaptive Immersion’s participation extends the company’s industrial-safety line — RigSim VR, FactorySim VR, and XReach among them — into a venue focused squarely on measurable enterprise outcomes.

For safety, operations, and training leaders attending the summit, the invitation is simple: bring the job you find hardest to train safely, and see whether the headset can hold it.