Posts Tagged ‘Epic Games’

Nurse’s Escape


https://sidequestvr.com/app/3848/nurses-escape

Nurse’s Escape is a VR game that simulates an escape room based on the five stages of the Sepsis Bundle. The purpose is to supplement nurse’s lecture-style curriculum with an interactive way to test nurse’s Sepsis knowledge. Sepsis is one of the leading causes of deaths and hospitalizations yearly, so equipping nurses with the right skills and information to treat sepsis in a timely manner can save lives and money. Help treat the millionaire’s illness before time runs out!

This game is sponsored by the University of Nebraska Medical Center’s College of Nursing-Lincoln.

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Australian hospitals leveraging VR tech to fast-track clinician training

It only takes 10 minutes to practice a procedure in a session through a VR platform such as Vantari VR.

https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/apac/australian-hospitals-leveraging-vr-tech-fast-track-clinician-training

Using flight-simulator technology, Vantari VR provides medical training using a VR headset and laptop. Its modules cover 90% of medical procedures as part of doctors’ core training and deliver steps that are recommended by college guidelines.

In Fiona Stanley Hospital, for example, over 20 registrars have been educated to perform chest drain insertions.

Vantari VR was awarded a $100,000 grant from Epic Games, the American video game company behind the online game Fortnite. Presently, the startup seeks to raise $2 million from a funding round that will close in August.

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more on nursing and VR in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=virtual+reality+nursing

Interactive 3D learn and work

https://www.edsurge.com/news/2021-04-06-how-interactive-3d-is-transforming-the-way-we-learn-and-work

EdSurge recently talked with Linda Sellheim, Education Lead at Epic Games

Interactive 3D is the ability to interact with the digital world the same way you do with the real world. These experiences can take many forms, from dynamic web-based content to immersive VR, AR or MR experiences. You know those realistic simulations of storms you see on the Weather Channel? That’s interactive 3D.

Burning Glass to identify the types of 3D skills needed in the workplace. They found that jobs requiring real-time 3D skills are growing 601 percent faster than the job market overall, and pay 57 percent above the average advertised salary

Imagine building a history museum in Unreal Engine and having students populate the displays. That’s what some classes are doing.

this blog post that includes the new Creator’s Field Guide to Emerging Careers in Interactive 3D.

all educators to check out resources such as Unreal Engine’s Secondary Education Lesson Plans and Games For Change.

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more on 3D in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=3D

Epic Games and Digital Reality

Epic Games ‘Metaverse’ Completes $1B Funding with $200M from Sony—Developers to Build a Digital Reality

https://www.techtimes.com/articles/259056/20210413/epic-games-metaverse-completes-1b-funding-200m-sony-build-digital-reality.htm

According to Venture Beat, Epic Games has recently had a successful round of funding, raising a sum of $1 billion for its proposed digital reality world

The metaverse idea of connecting all of Epic Games’ titles is an ingenious way of integrating one game after the other, becoming the common ground for all games, each player with their avatars. This highly resembles “Ready Player One’s” OASIS metaverse, which is a digital, virtual, and augmented reality that leads to different online platforms.

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more on VR in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=virtual+reality

Games For Change

http://www.gamesforchange.org/blog/2021/03/11/g4c-epic/

  • Introduction to Interactive 3D for Creators
  • “Teach With Fortnite Creative” Workshop:
  • “Teach with Fortnite Creative Level 2” Workshop
  • “Teach with Unreal Engine” Workshop

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more on games in education in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=education+games

Unreal Engine for students learning

Real-time technology like Epic Games’ Unreal Engine has emerged as a successful tool and resource to implement this type of teaching and learning.

Storytelling is a major component of so many professions.

use digital portfolios and our critique process by viewing a StoryMap I made using Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

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more on Unreal Engine in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=unreal+engine