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Antycip deliver immersive room to University of Corsica

Antycip Simulation have designed and installed 'VIRTUAL CORSICA', a new immersive room that will allow the University of Corsica to study society’s relationship with nature. The two-sided L-shaped CAVE (Cave Automatic Virtual Environment) type room has two Christie Mirage WU14K-M projectors connected to an angled lens with high-tech direct projection. This device will also allow students to view complex concepts and immerse themselves in various visual and audio environments. The room will be the launch pad for new projects between the university’s different teams and departments. This will be extended to local community, schools and even organisations. "This work allows the University of Corsica to benefit from the unique and high-performing 3D and virtual-reality modelling and simulation equipment," said Marie Antoinette Maupertuis, university professor and VIRTUAL CORSICA science project lead. "On top of the new research and innovative educational activities, this equipment represents an attractive feature for the recruitment of new researchers and students." Antycip worked with Dushow Group and Euphonia on the project. Dushow was responsible for the conference and room management (mainly speakers and lighting). Euphonia supplied its CATT-acoustic software for the spatial-sound. As the environment did not cater for back-projection technology resources, the teams had to avoid [...]

By | 2020-02-14T09:48:10+00:00 February 14th, 2020|
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SonoSim Releases Nurse Ultrasound Curriculum

    SonoSim, Inc., has launched a comprehensive nurse ultrasound training curriculum designed to support artificial intelligence (AI)-guided ultrasound training needs. The curriculum is designed to assist nurse training programs, integrate recent, remarkable advances in AI-guided ultrasound applications into nurse education and, subsequently, patient care. Ultrasound-Guided Peripheral Venous Cannulation. Image Credit: SonoSim, Inc. This announcement comes in the wake of multiple advances in AI-guided ultrasound applications focused on commonly performed procedures by nurses. Recent AI advances have made nurse-performed ultrasound – specifically bladder ultrasound, ultrasound-guided peripheral venous cannulation, and, most recently, cardiac ultrasound – a progressively widespread practice across hospitals. SonoSim’s nurse ultrasound training curriculum will help hospitals and nursing programs provide the foundational ultrasound knowledge and skills necessary to successfully integrate AI-guided ultrasound applications into clinical practice. SonoSim’s nurse ultrasound training curriculum will deliver 12 modules with 95 simulation-based training cases across a variety of essential topics. Each SonoSim Module consists of online peer-reviewed courses, knowledge assessments, and real-patient scanning cases in the SonoSimulator. Topics will include: Fundamentals of Ultrasound, Upper Extremity Venous Ultrasound, Upper Extremity Arterial Ultrasound, Soft Tissue Ultrasound, Bladder Ultrasound, Heart Ultrasound, Lung Ultrasound, Introduction to Ultrasound-Guided Procedures, and Ultrasound-Guided Peripheral Venous Cannulation.  

By | 2020-02-13T16:23:56+00:00 February 13th, 2020|
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Kongsberg to deliver Firefighting Simulator to NSRS

Kongsberg Digital (KDI) has won its first K-Sim Safety simulator contract with the Norwegian Sea Rescue Society (NSRS). KDI will deliver a K-Sim Safety Advanced Fire Fighting Simulator (AFFS) to the NSRS training centre in Horten, Norway. The full-mission K-Sim Safety AFFS is a new simulator which addresses regulation VI/3, section A-VI/3, table A-VI/3-1. This covers methods of organizing and training fire teams, inspecting and servicing fire detection and extinguishing systems and equipment. It also comprises controlling onboard firefighting operations. As a realistic representation of the layout on a real crude oil carrier, the simulator’s interactive 3D ‘WalkThrough’ software engine combines precise object and equipment models with immersive visuals. This exposes trainees to all conceivable scenarios and situations related to preventing and dealing with onboard fires. The AFFS accommodates an instructor station, debrief area, bridge/safety command center, two fire team muster stations and smoke diver areas. Up to three separate teams – usually, a management team and two firefighting teams – can train at the same time. In exercises designed to replicate onboard emergencies, the management team can assemble at the bridge/safety command centre. They are able to manage firefighting operations by communicating with the other internal teams and conducting [...]

By | 2020-02-13T13:19:18+00:00 February 13th, 2020|
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US Air Force Partners for Infectious Disease Proficiency

The U.S. Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine is developing a training program with the University of Nebraska Medical Center through the Center for Sustainment of Trauma and Readiness Skills Omaha program to best prepare medical airmen to respond to infectious disease threats that could impact military personnel and operations. The program launched in 2018 and airmen are set to begin taking classes in October. “This partnership is vital to the readiness of our medical airmen,” said Lt. Col. Elizabeth Schnaubelt, C-STARS Omaha medical director. “As military personnel deploy to diverse geographic areas, they may encounter infectious disease threats. These hazardous and communicable threats can be naturally occurring or deliberate and have a significant impact to our operations. Military personnel that work with such patients must know the proper procedures to protect patients, themselves and the mission.” The need for specialized infectious disease treatment and management training became clear after the 2014-2016 Ebola outbreak in West Africa. U.S. service members deployed to the region to support the crisis. Although U.S. forces did not directly treat Ebola patients, the risks to U.S. service members was evident. “The DoD identified a knowledge and training gap in our capability to safely care for [...]

By | 2020-02-11T22:10:18+00:00 February 11th, 2020|
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Imperial radiology trainees using AR and holograms

  Radiology trainees at Imperial College, London, are learning news skills with interactive holograms and augmented reality headsets. A team of experts from Imperial’s Faculty of Medicine and Digital Learning Hub developed the simulation. It is an example of using the Microsoft HoloLens2 for medical training and addresses the challenges in medical teaching and learning developed the simulation. Across the world, we teach using computed tomography (CT) guided interventions mostly using a traditional mentored approach on real patients. However, as the number of procedures grows and complexity increases, there is a need for new training approaches. "The field of interventional radiology is expanding in terms of the number of procedures and complexity, yet at the same time there is a significant shortage of skilled practitioners," said Professor Mohamad Hamady, who is part of the team that developed the simulation. "This technology will provide trainees with the required highly technical skills in a safe and realistic environment. This digital learning technology can also shorten the training time and this will help trainees to perform medical procedures later on in life with much higher technical ability and safety." The pioneering radiology training session involved junior trainees from multiple centres in London. During [...]

By | 2020-02-11T16:27:19+00:00 February 11th, 2020|
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Siemens Virtualizes Maintenance Training with DiSTI

Siemens Power & Gas utilizes DiSTI's VE Studio for Unity to develop virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) training for its global gas turbine field service solutions business. From virtual maintenance training on Gas Turbines to OSHA-focused safety training, Siemens has embraced virtual training to resounding results. This includes a reduction in overall training time by 66%. Image credit: DiSTI "We can provide capabilities and experiences virtually that we could not provide in the classroom or even during hands-on training due to cost and safety considerations,” says Kevin Carpenter, Global Training Network Director. Virtualization of training is a high priority as technologies provide new opportunities to improve skills, safety, and provide opportunities for significant cost savings for Siemens and its customers. Virtual training has been used within Siemens for many years, however, the pace at which virtual and augmented reality technologies are developing provides new opportunities to accelerate digitalization initiatives across all of Siemens businesses. One of the critical success factors for virtual training is being cost-effective and highly scalable across multiple technologies with quality performance of real-time graphics. To achieve this, Siemens selected VE Studio Virtual Training Development Platform, which utilizes Unity’s real-time 3D development platform. [...]

By | 2020-02-06T23:21:03+00:00 February 6th, 2020|
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Inovus Medical Appoints New Distributor for Canada

Inovus Medical has recently appointed Keir Surgical as the new representative in Canada for its complete product portfolio. Keir Surgical will offer expert guidance to all potential customers in Canada providing them with the right solution for their individual general and gynaecology surgery training needs. Image credit: Inovus Medical Inovus Medical chose to partner with Keir Surgical due to their strong technical background in surgery and gynaecology. As a distributor of surgical devices with a well-established commercial team they have the knowledge, experience and resources to ensure the Inovus products can be delivered to the Canadian market on a country-wide scale. Keir Surgical will be exhibiting the Inovus portfolio at a number of regional and national conferences throughout the year, most notably at the Canadian Surgery Forum in Vancouver from 24-26 September where the LapAR will be on show. Matt Stanimir, Director Business Development Keir Surgical, stated: “Keir Surgical is excited to partner with Inovus Medical, bringing new and innovative surgical simulation products to the Canadian Market.  Improved training and simulation will better prepare surgeons and trainees, thereby improving outcomes for Canadian patients. Keir Surgical is proud to support this initiative”.

By | 2020-02-06T17:36:26+00:00 February 5th, 2020|
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King Crow Studios Wins US Air Force Contract

King Crow Studios was selected as one of six recipients of a $1-million contract from the United States Air Force for their training and simulation application. The contracts were awarded at the inaugural Simulators Pitch Day in December, part of the Interservice/Industry, Training, Simulation and Education Conference (I/ITSEC), which was the third and final pitch event orchestrated by the U.S. Air Force as part of their efforts to find and contract with companies that don’t typically do government work. King Crow Studios’ software will give Air Force pilots a virtual reality (VR)-based training program to learn advanced combat tactics, proper safety procedures and more. In August 2019, the company was awarded a $50,000 phase one grant from the U.S. Small Business Innovation Research program to design VR prototypes for Air Force training. The company had developed a similar software training tool for ExxonMobil last year to better prepare operators for crane lifts as part of the expansion project at the ExxonMobil Baton Rouge polyolefins plant. “We’re absolutely thrilled to be working with the Air Force on this project. The fact that they’ve reached outside their typical pool of contract companies to find innovative approaches to their training procedures is really [...]

By | 2020-02-04T19:57:31+00:00 February 4th, 2020|
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UCL get approval for new London laboratory

  University College London (UCL) has gained planning permission to build a laboratory that explores how people interact with their environments. To be completed in 2021, PEARL (Person-Environment-Activity Research Laboratory), part of UCL Civil, Environmental & Geomatic Engineering’s (CEGE) Centre for Transport Studies (CTS), will be the only space in the world where researchers can precisely simulate large-scale environments such as train stations or town centres and test people’s reactions to them in detail. The space, UCL’s first net zero carbon building, aims to improve quality of life through better infrastructure design. It will also facilitate research in different areas, from medical to smart data, public health and the performing arts. The facility, near Dagenham East tube station, will form one of the core laboratories in the UK government’s EPSRC-funded UK Collaboratorium for Research on Infrastructure and Cities (UKCRIC). PEARL will build on the work of PAMELA (UCL Pedestrian Accessibility Movement Environment Laboratory). PAMELA has informed the design of proposed London Underground trains and identified ways of improving infrastructure for people with dementia. UCL Laboratory At 14m tall and with 600sq metres of reconfigurable floor space, PEARL will have capacity to simulate different scenarios. These include recreating smells such as [...]

By | 2020-02-04T11:58:21+00:00 February 4th, 2020|
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GP Strategies Wins Supplier of the Year Award for Health and Safety

Global performance improvement solutions provider GP Strategies Corporation has won the 2019 Supplier of the Year Award for Health and Safety from AVANGRID, a diversified energy company. The award was presented to GP Strategies during a ceremony near AVAGRID's headquarters in Orange, Connecticut. GP Strategies has a 50-year history of providing technical training, consulting, and engineering services to the energy sector, one of the most highly regulated and technically complex markets in the world. GP Strategies' expertise supports health, safety, and compliance practices in the industry. AVANGRID is a sustainable energy company operating eight electric and natural gas companies serving 3.3 million customers in New York and New England, as well as a renewable energy business with facilities in 22 states. With 6,500 employees, health and safety is a major concern. "Safety is a core value. We say this often at AVANGRID because we believe it, and we work to reinforce it every day," stated Dave LaBelle, AVANGRID's Vice President of Environmental Health and Safety. "GP Strategies shares our philosophy that well-equipped, adaptable employees are our most valuable asset. Providing them with the tools and training to be successful in new and innovative ways is critical to our success as [...]

By | 2020-02-03T18:46:36+00:00 February 3rd, 2020|
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