Virtual Realistic Augmented Training
VRAT is an immersive training environment for first responders (FRs) working with hazardous materials (HazMat). VRAT enhances scenario recognition and response-based cognitive agility, providing FRs with the skills, knowledge, and decision-making ability necessary to navigate hazardous situations effectively.
Improve
Improve personnel skills, training options, timelines, and qualifications. Quickly respond to acquisition of new instrumentation, changes in curriculum, or standard operating procedures.
Increase
Increase frequency of training events and number of participants without drastically increasing the budget. Reduce time, support personnel, and travel expenses while supporting numerous training events simultaneously.
Innovate
Innovate creating novel training environments and situations. Recreate real-world events. Incorporate weather, fate and transport, and indications of deadly conditions of hazardous agents to assess student response.
Key Features
- The instructor panel gives an instructor complete control over the training scenario, allowing for the customization of radioactive sources and the tools available to the students. Simulate hazardous situations without putting students or your team at risk.
- Multiplayer support for multiple students training together alongside multiple instructors. The players may interact and communicate with one another in order to work together to complete the training scenario.
- Non-player characters can be added to the scenario to perform specific roles to make the scenario more life-like.
- Multiple customizable selectable locations to train in, depending on the situational needs. Whether in-doors or outdoors, in the Western or Eastern hemisphere, in an arid environment or an urban city, you can do it.
- Realistic physics simulations ensure that the environment responds correctly to factors such as wind or rain, dispersing contaminants and possibly spreading a radioactive leak. Accurately representing the real world presents a new level of training for responders.
- Local hosting options to keep your data securely contained within your intranet, or hosted over the internet to allow for global cooperation.
What is VRAT
Instructor Panel
The panel allows the instructor to customize the training session, select the hazardous material, add randomness, and select avatars for students. VRAT allows an instructor to assess performance related training tasks from simplistic use of tools or equipment as need to complete initial general employee training, to advanced concepts of command and control for incident command. The instructor selects the environment, conditions, equipment, and students for the training. The instructor can create the environment for the training and assign one student to several students to participate. Additional non-students (Non Character Players, NPCs) can be added to perform assigned duties. Train as a team in our multiplayer scenarios or under the guidance of a virtual instructor.
Location, Location, Location
Select the location of the training from a list of predeveloped sites or create one to meet the current situational needs. The Instructor Panel provides the tools needed to develop a scenario site whether it is indoors or outdoors, in the Western or Eastern hemisphere, in an arid or damp and humid environment, or an urban, city, rural, or deserted local. Outdoor locations can add weather conditions as well as time of day. The rain will fall. The wind will blow, and the sun move across the sky. Indoors or outdoors, physics matter. If water is present, it will seek the low point, puddling or draining away. Air movement will move contaminants dispersing them and creating fallout in other locations. Students must apply their training and knowledge to properly combat or work within the hazard conditions. Their actions can lead to further problems. Representing the real world provides a new level of training for responders.
Robust Intranet or Secure Internet Hosting
VRAT can be hosted on an individual PC or through a cloud based server. VRAT fortifies your internal network with a secure, fast, and integrated intranet solution. Operate the program within your company’s secured internet or Bluemont’s VRAT internet hosting. Tap into the power of global connectivity without sacrificing security, ideal for growing businesses:
Benefits of Using VRAT
Benefits of Using VRAT
| Reduce or Eliminate | Increase |
|---|---|
| Travel, meals, and housing costs for trainees | Number of participants per class |
| Development of unique locations | Number of trainees completing courses in a year |
| Need for additional instructors for observation | Number of unique locations |
| Purchase of hazardous material surrogates | Number of hazards to practice/test against |
| Safety concerns and site safety preparation | Ability to quickly incorporate new instrumentation and procedures |
| Weather impacts | Ability to recreate recent events |
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