UX/UI, VR

VR Simulator and data analysis

Project developed with the Mindera team for HEAT: a VR training platform for clients like the Irish Republican Army (IRA), Nato, and Kongsberg. Training in VR allows these organizations’ instructors and trainees to see and analyze their performance, prepare them to fly in real life conditions, and ultimately gives pilots more confidence when they're deployed overseas.

The Challenge

Pilots in organizations like the Irish Republican Army (IRA), Nato, and Kongsberg, need to be highly trained in order to perform at the best of their abilities. Their work demands high level performance during high stress situations.

Training for these situations in a VR setting allows these organizations to lower costs, and to best analyze performance with measurable data.

HEAT VR allows for both trainees and instructors to see their performance in several different simulations. The design challenge was to transform data into easy to understand visual information.

Designing for VR

The platform is to be used by trainees and instructors, and the focus is to understand trainee's progress over time, compare performances between trainees or between sessions, and understand where there's room for improvement.

But before all this data could be recorded, there is a VR environment the trainees must interact with.

The UI for the VR Simulator was also designed, taking into consideration the same design language.

News Coverage

Here's Sky News piece on the project, where you can see my design being analyzed in the background:

Summing it up

You can't have an endless number of AFVs in your fleet, so having a synthetic environment to get that time on station is absolutely critical. Putting trainees through enough repetitions until they're getting it right consistently will give them more confidence in the weapon system before we even get on the range, and more confidence they're being deployed overseas. We can use data capture and data visualisation for better gunnery skills, and better performances on the field.