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Dispatches
FIRE SERVICE
VR ROADMAP
A RECENT PROJECT HOPES TO PAVE THE WAY FOR
A NEW KIND OF TRAINING FOR FIREFIGHTERS
By Jesse Roman
F
or years, industries including aviation,
medicine, law enforcement, and
the military have relied on game-like
virtual simulations to prepare students
for the high-stress, sometimes
dangerous scenarios they will face when it's time for
the real thing. Could the fire service use similar technologies
to train recruits for the myriad situations
they encounter on duty? And, if so, how should the
systems and curriculum be deployed?
Those were just a couple of the central questions
that researchers and fire educators explored during
a two-year project, " Firefighter Immersive Learning
Environment, " conducted jointly by the Fire Protection
Research Foundation and North American Fire
Training Directors. The work included an exhaustive
review of current technologies, focus groups of stakeholders,
and a multiday meeting with fire service and
tech leaders to learn about what's being used now,
what's working, and how virtual reality (VR) technologies
might best fit into future training curriculums.
The project and firefighter immersive learning in
general will be addressed in detail during a panel
discussion of experts at the upcoming NFPA Conference
& Expo®
in June in Las Vegas.
Overall, the experts who weighed in during
the focus groups and summit were bullish on the
potential for VR training in the fire service-as long
as it's used in conjunction with more traditional
classroom and live-fire training, said Sreenivasan
Ranganathan, a project manager for the Research
Foundation and co-author on one of the three
reports that will come out of the project.
" These technologies are not going to replace live
fire training for the fire service, but there is an
opportunity for immersive learning to complement
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