America's Army
Our first major client was the U.S. Army. Virtual Heroes continues to contribute to the award winning America’s Army game (www.americasarmy.com) and the underlying technology platform. From this platform we have created several derivative training simulations for the U.S. Army Special Forces and U.S. Secret Service. Details on our work can be found at (info.americasarmy.com)
The America’s Army game consistently ranks in the top five played online action games in the world (source: www.gamespy.com). There are currently over 5.6 million registered global users of the game. Each day over 1.2 million game missions are played around the world over the internet for a total of 1.34 billion missions played to date. There are over 800 organized game clans and registered fan sites for the game.
Serious Games for Health
HumanSim™ by Virtual Heroes enables health care professionals to sharpen their assessment and decision-making skills without risk to patients in realistic, challenging, immersive environments. Virtual Heroes is creating HumanSim by taking the most advanced game technology on the planet, and integrating it with a high-fidelity physiologic- pharmacologic model for an unprecedented immersive learning experience. HumanSim provides training-to-proficiency in rare, complicated or otherwise error-prone tasks. Target users include: Physicians, Nurses, Emergency medical personnel, Clinical students/residents, Emergency services organizations, and Healthcare education institutions.
HumanSim addresses the following Key Learning Needs in healthcare:
- Cognitive and clinical performance under stress
- Practice of new or complicated skills or technologies without endangering patient health or safety
- Measurement of clinical competence
- Repeat performance immediate to feedback
- Response to rare conditions or events
- Cross train staff
(ex. Pediatric and adult care staff)
- Initial patient assessment (quality)
- Management of emergency situation
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