SimX and U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command Wing Partner on New Exploratory Projects for Advanced VR Medical Simulation Training - PR Newswire

, /PRNewswire/ -- SimX is announcing a caller $225K effort with the U.S. Air Force to research emerging areas for the usage of precocious VR aesculapian simulation grooming (MST). This effort seeks to innovate astir the usage of VR MST successful 3 captious grooming needs for Air Force Special Operations Command Wing (AFSOC): municipality and method hunt and rescue, casualty evacuation (CASEVAC), and aesculapian attraction during progressive combat (Care Under Fire).

This effort, housed wrong SimX's Virtual Advancement of Learning for Operational Readiness (VALOR) program, aims to heighten the accessibility of grooming for these captious Special Warfare missions.  During an archetypal three-month exploration phase, SimX volition enactment with AFSOC taxable substance experts from the 24th Special Operations Wing to behaviour a elaborate feasibility survey of the usage of VR for these areas and nutrient curricular guidelines aimed astatine existing grooming capableness gaps. "These efforts volition let america to people the grooming of analyzable tactical decision-making and precocious consequence, debased occurrence skills that volition beryllium captious successful the aboriginal operating environment," said Col John R. Dorsch DO, USAF (ret.), elder subject advisor astatine SimX and erstwhile Medical Director for USAF Pararescue.  "VALOR's enlargement volition guarantee accelerated learning and expertise improvement crossed the afloat spectrum of operations."

Potential grooming requirements see precocious space recovery, confined abstraction rescue, breaching and extrication, diligent packaging and transload, and casualty question nether fire. The wide nonsubjective of the collaboration is to place cardinal areas of request for aboriginal improvement successful VR MST. The task aims to analyse feasibility for some civilian and subject requirements, arsenic the 3 absorption areas are applicable to civilian exigency agencies arsenic well. "VR advancement successful these grooming areas volition alteration much businesslike and cost-effective simulation for uncommon but captious events. This grooming could beryllium peculiarly impactful for assets constricted civilian agencies, which could payment tremendously from entree to low-cost VR simulation," said Karthik V Sarma PhD, main researcher of the VALOR programme and Chief Technology Officer of SimX. Funding for the collaboration was provided by the Department of the Air Force (DAF) nether the AFWERX Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program.

About SimX

SimX created an industry-leading virtual world aesculapian simulation level that is utilized astir the satellite and by apical institutions including Mayo Clinic, Stanford, Northwestern, University of Pennsylvania, the US Air Force, and galore others.  It allows trainees to enactment unneurotic successful multiplayer virtual world cases either unneurotic successful the aforesaid abstraction oregon from the information of their ain homes. SimX developed a unsocial strategy that allows for a "holodeck-like" acquisition without dropdown menus oregon virtual selections.  You speech and interact with virtual patients the aforesaid mode that you would successful existent life.  The scalable SimX Scenario System allows for accelerated improvement of caller grooming materials and cases, and instant deployment to each learners. Learn much astir the SimX System astatine simxvr.com.

About AFVentures

AFVentures invests successful emerging technologies to standard Department of the Air Force capabilities, strengthening the US concern basal that empowers Airmen and Guardians by incentivizing private, for-profit concern successful nationalist information interests. Our occurrence is achieved by connecting caller commercialized solutions with defence occupation sets, de-risking Airmen and Guardian initiatives to capable capableness gaps and modulation technologies. Learn much astatine https://afwerx.com/afventures-overview/.

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