Street Smarts VR

Category: Business

Company: Street Smarts VR

Description: Street Smarts VR is a decision-making game utilizing VR to simulate challenging situations faced by first responders while in the line of duty.

Skills and Ideas Taught: The primary skills supported in our game are verbal communication skills and critical problem solving. The game provides a safe and realistic training area where one can get exposure to (and successfully solve) these challenges several times before actually dealing with it for the first time on the street.

Goal: The goal is for the player to de-escalate each challenge in an efficient and effective manner, preserving the safety of everyone involved, including their own. Every scenario has the ability for the instructor to control avatars to respond in various ways, so the player is engaging with a thinking, reactive adversary. The player has the ability to choose between verbal, less-than-lethal, or lethal outcomes, depending on the severity of the situation.

Primary Audience: Police Officers, First Responders, and Military Service Members, 18+.

Assessment Approach: Learning occurs through the combination of user statistics that are captured, along with the feedback of a peer or seasoned instructor evaluating how the player engages in the game. Certain data is helpful in determining effectiveness of our goal, such as number of training scenarios completed, overall time in training, number of shots fired, number of peaceful de-escalations, etc. Learning occurs through the combination of user statistics that are captured, along with the feedback of a peer or seasoned instructor evaluating how the player engages in the game. Data is collected to measure the effectiveness of game goals, such as number of training scenarios completed, overall time in training, number of shots fired, number of peaceful de-escalations, etc. Learning occurs through the combination of user statistics that are captured, along with the feedback of a peer or seasoned instructor evaluating how the player engages in the game.

Game Engine: Unity

Operating System: Windows 10 / HTC Vive Pro Eye