In the upstream segment of the oil & gas industry , the determination of optimal well locations is a challenging problem for reservoir engineers [Klie et al.,2004].
Gruchalla et al.[2004] investigated the benefits of immersive VR for well-path editing . They reported higher speed and accuracy in immersive systems than in a desktop system,based on a study with 16 participants who planned the paths of four oil wells. Each participant planned two well paths on a desktop workstation with a stereoscopic display, and two well paths in a CAVE-like immersive virtual completed the well-path editing tasks faster in the CAVE environment than in the desktop environment The higher speed was accompanied by a statistically significant increase in correct solutions.