RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC (Oct. 17, 2007) – Virtual Heroes Inc.(VHI), a leader in advanced learning technologies, today announced that founder and CEO Jerry Heneghan has been invited to speak at the Baltimore Modeling, Simulation and Serious Games Day, Oct. 19 at Martins West in Baltimore, Maryland.
The one-day expo features industry experts in games and simulation for education, corporate training, defense, homeland security, medical and virtual applications. Heneghan will speak on military and medical training.
VHI has gained industry recognition for the development of its HumanSim™ dual-use medical training product platform for military personnel and civilian first responders. HumanSim™ is a software simulation platform that provides enhanced initial, refresher and sustainment medical education and training.
“The Baltimore Modeling, Simulation and Serious Games Day serves as a great opportunity to come together with others in the industry to demonstrate our capabilities and add to our knowledge base in the healthcare/medical market. Serious games can be used for the mission-critical individual and team skills necessary for today’s healthcare worker,” stated Heneghan.
Prior to starting Virtual Heroes, Heneghan was responsible for creating and fielding new medical training technologies for first responders at Research Triangle Institute (RTI). He also served as a Game Producer at Tom Clancy's Red Storm Entertainment and as a U.S. Army Aviator (AH-64 pilot).
Virtual Heroes is perhaps best known for its work with the America’s Army Training Platform architecture and the 3DiTeams application developed for the Human Patient Simulation Center at Duke Medical Center. Today, the company provides advanced learning technology solutions and services for a number of organizations in federal systems, healthcare and commercial industries.
About Virtual Heroes Inc.
Founded in January 2004, and located in Research Triangle Park, NC, Virtual Heroes Inc. (VHI), the “Advanced Learning Technology Company,” creates collaborative interactive learning solutions for the federal systems, healthcare and commercial markets. Advanced Learning Technologies leverage simulation learning and digital games-based learning paradigms to accelerate learning, increase proficiency and reduce training costs for next generation workforce development. As a global market leader in this field, VHI applications facilitate highly interactive, self-paced learning and instructor-led, distributed team training on the Virtual Heroes Advanced Learning Technology (A.L.T.) platform using the Unreal® Engine 3 by Epic Games. In 2007, VHI was honored by Military Training and Technology magazine as one of the industry’s Top 100 companies for a third consecutive year. Virtual Heroes is expanding its experience and success in the defense sector into the healthcare market with the development of HumanSim™, and into the commercial market with custom solutions.
For more information about Virtual Heroes, its products and services, please visit www.virtualheroes.com.
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