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student using virtual reality welding simulator — HBJ PHOTOS | GREGORY SEAY E.C. Goodwin Technical High School senior Raymond Schilling of Bristol uses a virtual welding simulator as part of the New Britain school’s HVAC training.

GREGORY SEAY 10.7.2013

Any experienced welder will tell you that to precisely join pieces of metal with a bulky,

red-hot handheld torch is a difficult skill that takes years to master.

But videogame-like instructional aids, including one from VRSim in East Harford, are providing a time- and money-saving training supplement for metalcraft and other industries hungry for skilled labor.

Five of Connecticut’s technical high schools and a Hartford nonprofit have used VRSim’s decade-old virtual welding simulator software and hardware to teach welding basics to more than 1,000 teens and adults, authorities say.

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