The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the US has announced that it intends to award a sole source fixed-price purchase order to Georgia State University, in order to offer more robust and realistic VR training solutions on laboratory safety, quality, and preparedness topics.
The CDC’s main objective is to improve laboratory safety training by being able to better evaluate user progress, responses, and evaluations. The CDC states that the project will be able to immerse users in environments that include 3D characters created from images of real people. These characters will be able to train laboratorians to identify user-based issues and problems, thereby training them to prevent costly and dangerous lapses in protocols, procedures, and activities.
3D volumetric video capability is a necessary component of the CDC’s requirement, which requires a HOLOSYS system for creation and/or development. By using this system, the CDC states that it will be able to investigate the creation and use of volumetric video capture within VR training courses.