Does your organization have a training requirement that is challenging, complex, intense, expensive, and/or potentially dangerous in the real-world situations they involve? Are you spending too much time and money on physical training that does not accurately reflect the training tasks required?
HigherEchelon builds Serious Games & Virtual Trainers to meet the needs of any industry in which realistic training is paramount to prepare for adverse environments and complex skillsets, including scenarios for:
First Responders – Construction – Medical/Emergency Treatment – Armed Forces/Defense – Law Enforcement – Others
Our training solutions reduce the overall cost of your training and provide an engaging and effective experience for your users. We use modern commercial gaming technology including the Unity and Unreal engines to create game-based, virtual training products that delight users and solve common training challenges. Our serious games and virtual training apps are leveraged by clients ranging from NFL Teams to the U.S. Army to solve their live training challenges such as:
Danger & Injury Risk – Prohibitive Logistical Intensity – Difficulty Replicating Real-World Scenarios – Training Expense
Sometimes in-person training isn’t possible or ideal. With life-like, immersive technology, you can create training experiences that augment existing training and provide multiple advantages over traditional methods including:
– A lower overall cost for training that requires specialized equipment, difficult-to-replicate / unique environments, or for training that gets expensive because it is frequently repeated.
– The ability to safely train skills in an otherwise dangerous environment.
– A visual and hands-on method of training familiar to the generations who have grown up playing video games that is highly effective for visual learners.
– Improved engagement and motivation for your trainees.
Serious Games are games with a primary objective of learning or practicing a skill, rather than a game designed for entertainment. They utilize many of the same techniques found in entertainment games – Serious Games can be story-driven, have objectives with win and loss criteria, and will use entertaining gameplay features to facilitate learning.
Virtual Trainers are realistic simulations of real-life training environments. While there may be some gamification (scoring, leaderboards), Virtual Trainers are less heavy on “gameplay” and feel less like a game than Serious Games.
HigherEchelon’s gaming and simulation work can be seen in high stakes training environments for groups ranging from professional athletes to soldiers. For example, HigherEchelon supports the Army Game Studio in the development of Serious Games & Virtual Trainers for U.S. Army soldiers. Our developers have supported Army Game Studio in the development of many of these serious games and trainers: