RealityV
What is RealityV™:
RealityV™ is an InVisM Platform Technology designed to deliver the most fully immersive and interactive training and simulation experience available. Using live action presented through a custom developed Adobe Flash video delivery system, trainees can view and interact with media presented via 360-degree video with spatially correct binaural audio.
Why was RealityV™ developed:
The platform was developed out of a growing need to deliver an experience that is as close to live as one can achieve. When avatar-based training fails to support the vital realities of real-world situations and scenarios, RealityV™ delivers an immersive environment that exposes trainees to situations so real, it’s the next best thing to being there.
How was RealityV™ developed:
Using best industry practices, InVisM’s development team, leveraged the industry's leading technologies, to deliver a capability that puts a trainee inside an action scene. One of the first commercially available Flash Player 10 solutions on the market, RealityV™, mixes together and produces 360-degrees of video and eight channels of binaural audio into streaming, real-time scenarios. InVisM's decision to design RealityV™ around the Adobe line of products was predicated on ensuring that the software was platform independent and widely available to the market. Content developed for the platform can be operated as a local application or can function through a standard Web Browser. The software ensures hardware-accelerated, full-screen scaling and proper real-time perspective that allows the users the ability to fully view the action that surrounds them.
RealityV™ was designed to capture and analyze valuable psychometric data. By monitoring decisions made during the course of game play and through the use of psychometric analysis, the software evaluates a player's preparedness or acuity in cultural immersion situations. This correlation of data to known standards gives instructors a more comprehensive way to identify behavioral traits and trainees' readiness to perform their job, and allows evaluators to better understand how a trainee will respond when faced with actual situations. Incorporating state-of-the-art Halt-In-Scene proprietary technology, users have to continually monitor their surroundings and take appropriate actions when items or situations are observed that present a problem. Failure to do so in the time allotted can have severe consequences in the game. The feature provides valuable situational awareness metrics as well as assessment of appropriate responses.
RealityV™ Process Model
The RealityV™ Experience:
As a user navigates the environment, they are able to fully observe the live action content, which uses trained character actors and is recorded in high definition, digital media. Throughout the experience, trainees are able to provide input that impacts the scenario's outcome while maintaining vital metrics based on their performance. Favorable choices result in positive outcomes, while bad ones oftentimes take the story in an unfavorable direction with severe consequences.
The RealityV™ construct places trainees safely inside the live action scenarios so they can experience what it is like to be in stressful situations and, based on their decisions, maintain control over the outcomes.
When used with a motion-tracking headset, RealityV™ delivers an immersive, compelling simulation experience. As the user moves their head and looks around the virtual environment, the application tracks their movements and correctly extracts and renders perspective-correct binaural audio and video to the head mounted display.
RealityV™ in Action:
RealityV™ is currently powering InVisM's Cultural Simulation project.