Case Study: 3D Industry Training. Published on August 4, 2010 InGame partner Urban Voyage worked with Tranzqual (the transport Industry Training Organisation) to develop Heavy Vehicle Dynamics 3D: a “trucking simulator” for the Xbox Generation.
When it comes to understanding complex and subtle concepts, such as how vehicle loading affects handling and cornering, 3D gaming technology makes complex ideas simple to understand and experience. The sim shows what happens if the truck speeds by 10kph, changes the load configuration or takes a corner too fast. From the driver’s seat students can look down the side mirror to see the effects of ‘roll amplification’ or smoke coming off tires under heavy breaking. Can Training in Second Life Teach Doctors to Save Real Lives? A nursing student walks into a hospital room where a woman who has just given birth is lying in bed.
When the student asks how the new mother is feeling, she admits that she is dizzy, and might need to be sick. Preparing to examine her, the student pulls back the sheet and finds the mattress soaked with blood. The patient is experiencing a post-partum hemorrhage, and could bleed to death in minutes. Instantly, the nurse scrambles into action—taking the woman’s blood pressure, affixing an oxygen mask, starting an IV. Raptivity.