Abstract: Systems and methods for generating a virtual reality training session for a procedure to be performed by at least one trainee on a virtual reality (VR) model of a physical object of interest in a technical environment. The method includes the steps of: loading the virtual reality (VR) model of the object of interest from a database into a virtual reality (VR) authoring system; specifying atomic procedural steps of the respective procedure by a technical expert and performing the specified atomic procedural steps in a virtual environment provided by the virtual reality (VR) authoring system by the technical expert on the loaded virtual reality (VR) model of the object of interest; and recording the atomic procedural steps performed by the technical expert in the virtual environment and linking the recorded atomic procedural steps to generate automatically the virtual reality training session stored in the database and available for the trainees.