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.

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

HumanSim

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, and Blinking Motion.