Gameplay Scenarios Are Nonetheless Underneath Development

Social distancing tips brought about in response to the pandemic made the traditional operation of a simulation centre with limited ground space unimaginable. To continue offering coaching to a better number of candidates, methods for recreating the simulation experience with distant candidates have been devised and explored:

A: Conversational avatar over Zoom.

Utilizing streaming software, our pre-current conversational avatar is offered on a Zoom call for conversational simulation with distant candidates.

B: Gameplay type situations on CenarioVR.

Candidates navigate a clinical room setting with buttons and menus to undertake a scenario.  Minecraft servers  inputs to progress the situation.

C: Distant In-Ear (RIE) coaching.

Utilizing a wireless earbud, candidates communicate remotely with centre workers (‘operatives’) who observe the instructions given by candidates watching a live Zoom feed. Three variations have been explored:

C1: Candidates remotely watch the feed while linked to an operative by an audio name.

C2: Candidates message their goal operative on Zoom and textual content-to-speech software program reads these messages to the operatives.

C3: Zoom breakout rooms/separate WhatsApp video calls connect candidates to target operatives, the place candidates see from the operative’s perspective via a head-mounted camera.

D: Digital environments

D1: Non-public Worlds inside VRChat host scenarios.

D2: GOSH’s Minecraft server hosts eventualities.

Proposals have been scored 0-10 in: Group Interactivity, Fidelity, Range of Scenarios and Ease of Implementation. Summed total scores had been:

C3=32, C1=29, C2=27, A=26, B=20, D1=19, D2=10

To this point, probably the most viable choices have been trialled.

Avatar use over Zoom proved simple to set up and programs utilizing it are deliberate.

RIE coaching’s trial periods had operatives reporting communication inefficiencies. In response, the model was revised: the wider group now coaches the whole room over Zoom.

Gameplay scenarios are still under building. Externally produced eventualities are being scrutinised.