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Group Editor Marty Kauchak was joined by HollyFoster, Halldale Media Sales Representative, to put SimX through the paces ofone scenario on the 2019 IMSH exhibition floor.
Delegatesat 2019 IMSH were able to immerse themselves in a rigorous learning environmentby way of the SimX wireless, multiplayer, virtual reality medical simulator.
SimX wasunveiled in spring 2018 and has been delivered to an array of customersincluding the U.S. Air Force (to train its pararescue personnel) and topmedical institutions at Stanford University, Universities of Texas and Purdueand elsewhere.
At theconference, delegates were able to “train” to SimX scenarios in a 10-by-10 squarefoot. conference floor area. The scenario in which the author and Holly Foster,Halldale Media Sales Representative, were immersed, involved the stabilizationof a patient with altitude sickness and related symptoms.
While the currentVR simulation is hardware agnostic – able to operate on Oculus, MicrosoftHoloLens and other materiel – during the demonstration, the system wasoperating with the HTC Vive Pro wireless device. From the author’s perspective,the headgear and hand-held console permitted ease of patient-healthcare providerinteraction and treatment – under the direction of SimX medical content developers.
Themedical simulation can be further scaled up to a 30-by-30 square foot trainingvenue, and beyond that, allows off-site leaners to participate when they accessthe SimX corporate website server.
SimX hasbeen delivered in about 50 customized scenarios. Significantly, a case creatorand a marketplace product enabler will be fielded later this year, according toRyan Ribiera, MD, MPH, the company’s CEO. “And while the case creator willallow the customer to develop its own content, the market place will permitthem to take the cases they create and literally put them on the open market,”he explained and further emphasized. “Our goal is to be a platform for developmentinstead of simply building cases.”
SimX hasother prospective military customers which could not be divulged.
There areseveral other industry partners on the SimX team, which will be revealed in duecourse.
