At VHI Labs we develop breakthrough technologies and find solutions to unique engineering problems pertaining to simulation learning and serious games. Our exceptional team has expertise in a wide range of technical fields: from instructional and game design to 3D rendering and networking, interactive storytelling and digital prototyping. We’ve created a highly dynamic and creative work environment which helps to inspire our product development and contract research efforts.

VHI Labs is characterized by our multidisciplinary skill set and our ability to combine those diverse skills to create novel solutions. Our R&D team explores new and emerging technologies that are one to five years out, and uses them to create prototypes and cutting-edge solutions that will help organizations maximize training and education performance in the future.

Technologies currently being explored include:

• Dynamic Virtual Human Technology™
• After Action Review Technologies for experiential learning
• Instructor authoring tools
• Virtual collaboration environments
• Interactive SCORM conformant content and courseware

Through a strategic partnership with EmSense Corporation, Virtual Heroes applications are EmSense Enabled™, delivering immersive, engaging experiences through emotion, body language and physiological feedback. By fusing data from many different types of physical sensors and creating customizable, easy to understand “virtual sensors”, EmSense technologies give clients the capability to specify what they want to monitor in a user, from stress to engagement to learning to the actual emotions of the user. Signals measured include: brainwaves, heart activity, breathing, temperature, motion and blinking motion.

EmSense represents a new class of technologies known as “augmented cognition”. Today's military, healthcare and corporate personnel are bombarded by volumes of information in highly stressful situations. Embedding EmSense technology in Virtual Heroes 3D experiential training applications enables users to learn how to retain their focus on what is critically important while filtering out noise.