Game Review:RealityV
From unthinkMedia
Immersive Cultural Simulation Project (ICS) is a fully immersive simulation environment that was built for the US Military.
Contents |
Video
Objective
To train solders to increase their situational awareness and knowledge of foreign cultures.
Goal
- Safely exposing soldiers to real-world cultural situations that involve stress, emotion, and require life or death decision-making.
- Preparing personnel who may potentially face real world situations, to become situationally aware of their surroundings.
- Enabling military leadership with the ability to assess a soldiers' readiness prior to their tour of duty in a foreign culture.
Technology Reasoning
- Effectively reveals the micro expressions and subtle body language of the 'game's' characters.
- User immersion delivers an experience second only to "being there."
Features
- 360-degree video
- 8-channel binaural audio
Game Play
- A trainee navigates the environment by moving there head and paying close attention to their environment.
- The environment is comprised of real actors recorded in HD.
- At the end of a scenario a the video pauses and the trainee is asked to make a choice. The choice is based on the trainees awareness of what, where, and why a situation transpired.
- One action a taken, a scenario is dispatched that delivers the outcome.
- The simulation maintains a score of the player's performance.
