At the end of this blogpost you can see all emergency services that use XVR in a map.

Gelderland Midden Safety & Health Region, Netherlands
VGGM is one of our most experienced users. They use XVR for both single agency as well as multi agency exercises. They use XVR for classroom, individual and team trainings. Besides their mobile XVR solution they have also dedicated a room in their location as training centre where they train partner agencies as well.

Brigade des Sapeurs Pompiers, Paris, France
The Fire Service of the French capital use XVR to support their incident command courses. XVR is used in classroom teaching to allow students to assess an incident situation and give a first situation report. XVR is also used to create videos of complex scenarios. These videos are used as exercise “injects” in tabletop exercises.

Frankfurt Fire Brigade, Germany
The city of Frankfurt invested 25 Million EUR to train its fire fighters in every possible scenario on its territory. They selected XVR as their preferred simulation software for Virtual Training.

FRTC will use XVR to increase the preparedness of officers for response to urban fires, road traffic accidents, tunnel incidents and chemical incidents.

There are two large TV-screens and one beamer where several students can exercise in the same scenario. There are also 21 seats available for students to watch the virtual exercise. The control room, where the instructor can adjust the scenario for training means, is completely separated from the exercise room.

Northamptonshire
Nothamptonshire Fire Brigade has made a video on how they use XVR. Click on the link to see how they have implemented XVR in their excellent training centre.

Böblingen Fire Brigade
Here see how Landkreis Böblingen have implemented XVR in their training curriculum.


Country Fire Authority, VIC, Australia
Victoria’s rural fire service CFA use XVR to support their command development program. XVR is used in addition to other live and simulated teaching and training methods.

Broken Arrow, OK, United States
The fire brigade of the City of Broken Arrow use XVR to support their new recruit training as well as their ICS (Incident Command System) education and training.

Central Finland Fire and Rescue Department
Read more about the use of XVR in Finland in this testimonial.

Several XVR users are open to welcome you in their training centre to give you a taste of how they work with XVR. In the map below you can see emergency services that use XVR. Please contact us if you would like to visit one of them.


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Connexxion Ambulance Services, The Netherlands
See how XVR is being used in a combined training of 3 Dutch regions (Drenthe, Friesland & Groningen). UMC Ambulancezorg, RAV Groningen and RAV Fryslân took care of the organisation.



AREU - Lombardia Regional Agency for Emergency Rescue, Italy
Ambulance teams in the Italian Region of Lombardy around Milan are trained with XVR to respond to mass casualty incidents. Both XVR On Scene and XVR Resource are used for these exercises. E-Semble Partner iNovaria in collaboration with the University of Eastern Piedmont in Novara provide subject matter expertise for these exercises.

East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust, United Kingdom
East Midlands Ambulance Service use XVR to prepare their HART teams for mass casualty situations. XVR is used for triage exercise, on scene medical command training and for hazardous materials exercises which is a key competence of the HART teams in the United Kingdom.

Netherlands ambulance services
Ambulance services in the Netherlands use XVR to teach and train “first responding ambulance” procedures to their crews. A team of a paramedic and driver work together in a 3D virtual XVR scenario to assess the scene, triage the patients and prepare for briefing of back up ambulance and medical incident commander.



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Netherlands Police College
XVR is used at the Netherlands Police College for in a number of different learning tracks. In Incident Commander training, XVR is used to confront students in a classroom with a variety of situations they might encounter. Students discuss about the best approach by applying tactics and procedures they have just learned. In exercise set-up, XVR is used to immerse both recruits and experienced officers in refresher courses in complex incident scenarios which may include traffic accidents, murder scenes, riots, large urban fires and all other possible incidents.

Close Protection Unit, Netherlands Police
Agents of the Netherlands VIP Protection Unit are better prepared for their task by using XVR to drill observation and communication procedures. XVR allows agents do a pre-reconnaissance round of the VIP route followed by the real run. XVR can be used to train agents both in generic environments as well as in exact replicas of a building or site.

Netherlands Forensics Institute
XVR has been used to create the “Forensic Awareness Games” which are used to train emergency professionals worldwide to become more aware of their role and responsibility in protecting (possible) forensic evidence at an incident scene. The Games consist of XVR scenarios with evidence markers built into them which can be found by students. The objective of the Game is to investigate and combine the evidence and conclude what the (intended) crime was. The CSI (Crime Scene Investigation) type “games” have proven to result in an increase in forensic awareness amongst participants.



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Next Generation Students
Students nowadays expect to learn with modern tools like multimedia, gaming and interaction. As “serious gaming platform” XVR provides such learning which grabs and keeps participants’ attention.

Increased knowledge retention
Visual, interactive and engaging learning is proven to increase retention of knowledge. Adult learning should be strongly based on self-experience.

Better Fitness for use
In some cases, simulation training and exercises have a better fit with the learning objectives than live exercises. A key learning objective for On Scene Commanders in a large incident or mass casualty exercise for example is management of resources. In most exercises, the number of resources (especially ambulances) is kept to a minimum to reduce cost. As result, the senior officers are not trained completely realistic in a live exercise. In a virtual exercise, the participants would not have any limitation to manage and direct the required resources.

Reduction of cost and environmental footprint
XVR can reduce the need for live training and exercises. This results in a direct reduction need for resources, training ground and fuel thus reducing cost and environmental impact.

A further cost saver concerns the use of a mobile or remote XVR solution. Using XVR “at a distance” reduced cost for staff travel and replacement.

Cost sharing
XVR is designed to support not only training but also teaching, assessment, exercises and briefing and debriefing. XVR can be used in multiple areas within your organisation, that’s why you can share the financial load of a single investment in XVR within your organisation.

We are your disposal to help define how and where XVR can be used in your curriculum and what simulation infrastructure you may need. We will Train your Trainers and advise your Senior Management in the required changes in your team and approach to effectively implement XVR.

In addition to the support our Teams can offer, we strongly advise you to contact your colleague XVR users. We observe a lot of enthusiastic exchange of experience and knowledge between XVR users worldwide.

Cost-effective turnkey solution
We have had customers who have used our support to create a dedicated XVR SimCentre within their premises. By dedicating a specific room to XVR we have helped them installing their computers and screens in the most optimal way which creates a setup where you can just plug and play. No messing with cables, networks etc to start, but a system that’s ready when you need it. When you don’t want to train with XVR the room is available for other purposes.