VR is already widely used in industrial training. Send a forklift driver through VR training and the safety lessons might stick a little bit better, so your insurance company will cut you a discount and it can pay for itself.
Indeed. That being said, I think it has even more potential in making more adaptable simulators of things that we couldn't simulate well or dynamically enough before.
Whats more, it's one of those games that could conceivably run on a very cheap VR headset in the next few years.