Wired’s got a great interview up with Dr. David Stone of MIT, who designs and build Web-based training systems for companies and entities as diverse as power plants, Orkin pest control technicians and defense contractors. By combining virtual worlds like Second Life, off-the-shelf hardware like the Wiimote and standard PCs, Dr. Stone is developing immersive and realistic training programs that let clients “do” in virtual life what they’ll be doing “on the job” in a safe and risk-free environment.

We’ll be following up on this — particularly given Dr. Stone’s quote about the motion sensing Wiimote: “[the Wiimote is] one of the most significant technology breakthroughs in the history of computer science.”

Read the full interview/article on Wired here.