Virtual reality oil Humans have a hard time with numbers. The truth is that our brains are much better at processing images and colors than they are at processing numbers. Give a human a relatively simple math problem like dividing two large numbers by one another and it can take them several minutes to work out the answer. By contrast, humans are great at understanding images and making inferences as compared to computers. Trivial tasks like identifying what a chair is are extraordinarily difficult for computers. These truths are behind the recent effort by utility companies to start using virtual reality to help run their businesses more effectively. Utility companies rely on reams of data to manage their complex far flung network of substations, transmission lines, and power plants. Humans are not particularly good at managing this data, but computers are. In contrast, human judgement is required to figure […]