To develop innovative training environments using interactive Virtual and Augmented Reality to guide the learning process. These custom installations will be supported by a cloud-based delivery platform to enable new experiences to be delivered on-demand to customers in a cost-effective manner.
49,810
2020-07-01 to 2020-12-31
Collaborative R&D
Immersive Odysseys allows emergency and medical service trainees to experience a variety of challenging environments from their home in order to further and enhance their education while access to training centres is restricted. Using their own smartphones and simple cardboard headsets they can access relevant pre and in-hospital environments, explore, interact and learn from the leading experts in their field.
We have been supplying immersive environments and content to universities and simulation centres for over 5 years and we have a proven track record of using our expertise to help medical professionals create bespoke, localised, topical immersive lessons for their students.
We believe that the experts know best how to create the right content for their students, so we are creating an easy to use web-based editor to allow them to make professional standard VR and web content to bring home-learning to life.
These immersive experiences can help to build the students knowledge and skills in a more interesting and fun way than traditional methods. By immersing them in the right setting, they can also help instil the identity and values that help round out their education.
Students will get to see first hand the sights and hear the sounds of real-world medical locations in crystal clear 360 videos with ambisonic audio and experience some of the pressure these settings can bring.
Exploring these environments will help cement knowledge as they interact with the scene and view relevant images and videos embedded by their lectures. They will also be challenged with questions and games to ensure they're on their toes.
Our templates and editor bring far more features than has ever been seen before in a tool of this kind. Multiple layers of scenery, overlays and effects can be combined and scenes linked together to form complex challenges. Quizzes, reveals, wipes and many other activities can also be created using the drag and drop interface.
A huge toolbox of assets is included; 360 videos, icons, images, sounds; created by immersive as well as third parties. Our tools will also enable lecturers to film their own hospitals and other environments because immersion works best when it's familiar and believable.
The whole system is hosted securely on the cloud and a familiar interface allows students to find, save and experience relevant content. Content creators can share their scenarios with the community, helping to build up an amazing ever-expanding resource of relevant materials.
142,800
2020-06-01 to 2021-03-31
Feasibility Studies
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200,067
2020-01-01 to 2021-03-31
Collaborative R&D
Learning through immersive experiences is exciting; from saving someone's life at a road traffic collision to learning about ancient Egypt inside a pharaoh's tomb; it has the potential to transport us to new environments and interact in new ways. We all learn best from people who understand us. Which is why Immersive studio lets people with years of experience in their area teach us, through immersive environments directly, with multi-sensory lessons they have created themselves.
We are the UK's leading provider of immersive learning spaces in education, health, and the emergency service sectors, with a global network of clients, from teachers to surgeons who use our spaces on a daily basis to bring lessons and training to life. Although the UK is a world leader in these areas, there is a lack of high-quality content for these sectors, that harnesses the talent of our region. We have identified a clear market demand for localised content that transforms how groups learn and train together. From Special Educational Needs (SEN) children, trainee paramedics or aspiring firefighters, each audience's needs are unique, and we believe their content should be too.
Immersive Studio will be a UK based content production platform, that allows teachers to play with scenes, characters and game elements to create fun, exciting and inspiring lessons and connect with each other all around the world. Our software will allow immersive content to be created faster, more efficiently by its audience and as a result, adopted and distributed more widely. This will create considerable future value and IP which is currently not being captured. From New York to Abu Dhabi, we want to allow the expertise from the UK to shine through an intuitive platform that makes creating content easy and learning even easier.
Not only will Immersive Studio allow us to fulfil existing market demand that is not currently served, but it will also open up new markets, moving our business from a focus on hardware supply to a more productive software-as-a-service model that has the ability to scale significantly.
2019-02-01 to 2021-05-31
Knowledge Transfer Partnership
To develop mixed-reality technology for interactive learning experience in primary and secondary education. To develop cutting-edge immersive environments for solo and team learning where augmented reality content is integrated with an immersive classroom.