WorldViz PRISM leverages Ricoh’s line of projectors to provide a one-of-a-kind immersive experience
Virtual reality isn’t just for transporting people to far-off lands for fun and games. It’s proven itself in study after study as an effective method for training and research tasks across a number of industries and use cases. And WorldViz has been at the heart of this exciting new frontier.
What is WorldViz? It’s a provider of virtual reality labs, immersive solutions, and robust development tools that has been serving educators, healthcare and military professionals, and more for over 20 years. Discover how WorldViz has been paving the way forward for VR technology, and how Ricoh’s line of premium laser projectors has helped it along the way.
What is WorldViz?
WorldViz is a pioneer in the virtual reality and augmented reality space, providing solutions for a wide range of companies across healthcare, construction, marketing, real estate, secondary education, and other industries.
With WorldViz, customers can put a VR headset on, pick up the controllers, and instantly be transported into a virtual environment that simulates complex or potentially dangerous environments.
Medical students can hone their technical skills on virtual patients, practicing complicated procedures without harming real people. Marketers and product designers can interact with digital product mock-ups, making design changes without needing to build expensive prototypes. Researchers can conduct experiments in a simulated yet realistic environment and repeat them over and over again in a fraction of the time.
WorldViz works directly with organizations to build solutions that meet their exact needs. They also offer turn-key VR labs, Immersive Rooms, and development kits that give clients the power to build and create their own experiments, training scenarios, and environments with low-code or no-code tools.
Some of its trailblazing solutions that enable rapid VR simulation development include:
- Vizard, a Python-based VR development platform that makes it easy for organizations to build and deploy their own interactive research and business applications.
- SightLab VR Pro, a simple-to-use yet robust experiment generator and eye-tracking tool designed to help researchers capture and analyze user behavior.
- PRISM empowers no-code design, implementation, and assessment of training scenarios with unmatched precision and ease.
WorldViz also offers consulting services to identify critical impact points for VR projects and provides on-site training to improve usability and maximize success rates.
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VizMove PRISM: A unique partnership between WorldViz and Ricoh
As a developer of immersive solutions, WorldViz understands that complex VR Lab setups aren't always practical or necessary. Budgetary or scalability constraints can make it difficult to requisition or set up enough VR equipment for everyone who needs hands-on training. VR controls can create additional barriers to interactions that can impede some users’ learning ability. Plus, students working in complex fields like healthcare still need physical, tangible experience alongside virtual simulations to apply learned skills.
That’s where VizMove PRISM comes in. PRISM is a unique, immersive simulation product that can instantly transform any room into an environment that triggers a similar emotional response and sense of presence as the real thing — and Ricoh’s projectors lie at the heart of the experience.
Rather than placing its users in a virtual environment with headsets, VizMove PRISM simulates real-world scenarios by projecting content onto the physical walls. The result is a highly immersive, realistic scenario that anyone can walk into and interact with.
VIzMove PRISM is highly configurable, relying on Ricoh’s powerful short-throw projectors to display colorful, high-resolution images and video on four walls, or even floors and ceilings, depending on the client’s needs. An instructor or trainee can manipulate the immersive room in a variety of ways, whether that’s using a tablet to change lighting and add environmental sounds and smells, or touching walls to activate triggers that display charts, videos, prompt questions, or otherwise alter the physical surroundings.
There are numerous use cases for VizMove PRISM, like training healthcare professionals, building interactive art exhibits, or even hosting escape rooms. Hospitals recreate hectic emergency rooms, complete with background noise and stressors that a nurse practitioner might encounter. Medical students no longer practice patient simulators in the middle of empty rooms; they engage in life-like scenarios using real-world tools in conditions designed to evoke the same sense of urgency as real-life patient encounters. Architects can provide building walk-throughs leveraging 360-degree images taken from on-site and experienced at full scale in a shared immersive experience. And museum patrons could immerse themselves in an art installation that envelops all of their senses.
Whatever the use case, VizMove PRISM engages audiences by drawing users closer into the experience in new and exciting ways.
Did You Know?:Ricoh’s short-throw laser projectors can create stunning images up to 150 inches in size from less than five feet away.
Transform your environment with WorldViz and Ricoh
Whether you’re looking to train a workforce to handle dangerous or complex tasks without putting them in harm's way, or are looking to run experiments in controlled and realistic environments, WorldViz has solutions to support you. WorldViz is at the forefront of the immersive training industry, leading the way with VizMove PRISM.
Get in touch with WorldViz today to find out how its virtual reality solutions can improve outcomes for your organization. And check out the rest of Ricoh’s line of projectors to learn how we’re creating unmatched visual experiences for organizations and consumers alike.
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