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GIGXR Launches Holographic Standardized Patients for Medical and Nursing School Remote Simulation Training


GIGXR, Inc., provider of the extended reality (XR) GIG Immersive Learning System for instructor-led teaching and training, announced today the launch of HoloPatient Remote and GIG Mobile for medical and nursing schools. Built for online and hybrid learning environments, these applications together facilitate safe and socially distanced standardized patient simulation training while enabling real-time interaction, engagement and clinical assessment between students and instructors.

HoloPatient Remote is an extension to the cloud-based HoloPatient application that transports true-to-life holographic patients to remote student locations where they can be viewed and examined by students using their phone or tablet during collaborative instructor-led simulation lab training sessions. GIG Mobile is used to control applications like HoloPatient Remote and interact with the GIG Immersive Learning System, an XR teaching system designed to enhance, not replace, existing curriculum and teaching methods.

"Guidelines around how instructors teach and engage with their students, whether online or on campus, are shifting daily. Most are ending up with a hybrid model at best while still needing tools that optimize learning," said David King Lassman, CEO and founder of GIGXR. "This is especially challenging for fields that benefit from in-person, immersive training such as healthcare, where standardized patient training can't be taught effectively over Zoom. We developed HoloPatient Remote and GIG Mobile so students can complete and even accelerate simulation training, in many cases meeting graduation requirements."

Clinical simulation is an integral part of training and education in healthcare fields, representing as much as 50% of clinical training for nursing students according to a recent study. Access to simulation labs and other facilities and equipment where such training is traditionally done is limited at best in the age of COVID-19 protocols, slowing the learning progress of many students and even preventing graduation for lack of completed simulation hours.

"While students are required to stay safe and socially distanced, GIGXR's HoloPatient is the closest, highest-quality learning experience you can get to training with real patients," said Dr. Linda Herrmann, NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing. "GIGXR's use of volumetric 3D video to capture standardized patients creates pathology experiences that are unimaginably life-like for physically safe and safe-to-fail environments. Enabling students to hear, see and interact with holographic culturally diverse patients, and each other, provides some of the most cutting-edge and effective teaching and training modalities in our field."

HoloPatient Remote is a mobile application for iOS and Android that extends the reach of HoloPatient beyond Microsoft HoloLens 2 devices. Here are some of the highlights and key features:

GIG Mobile is a native iOS and Android app that enables students, instructors and administrators to interact with the GIG Immersive Learning System with key features including:

"Simulation modalities such as standardized patients and Mask-Edtm are widely used in health care education; however, during the COVID-19 pandemic these modalities are difficult to employ due to social distancing," said Dr. Jane Frost, Associate Professor in Nursing at University of Canberra. "GIGXR's HoloPatient has been a useful addition to allow students a consistent realistic experience that is less time and resource intensive as other modalities. GIGXR's latest enhancement HoloPatient Remote has increased its useability in online learning and enables students to continue to engage in realistic simulation experiences while learning remotely."

GIGXR is trusted by academic institutions globally, including NYU, Ursuline, University of Pennsylvania, Bucks County Community College, Presbyterian Health Services, Creighton University, College of Lake County, Buckeye Hills Career Center in the United States; University of Canberra, TAFE Queensland, Flinders University, Otago Polytechnic, Southern Institute of Technology, Te Whare W?nanga o Awanui?rangi in Australasia; University of Leeds in the United Kingdom.

HoloPatient Remote and GIG Mobile are bundled applications that are available to download via the iOS App or Google Play Stores. These apps are free to students and instructors of institutions who license the Immersive Learning System and HoloPatient application. With the announcement of HoloPatient Remote, a discounted starter package is available to institutions that purchase during the Fall Term. For more information on HoloPatient Remote, GIG Mobile and the GIG Immersive Learning System, please visit www.gigxr.com or email [email protected] to request a demo today.

About GIGXR

GIGXR is an extended reality (XR) software as a service (SaaS) system for instructor-led teaching and training that enhances learning outcomes for medical and nursing schools, hospitals and higher education globally. GIGXR's GIG Immersive Learning System includes a growing catalog of mixed reality applications that run on a robust platform designed for instructors to easily plan and launch sessions, securely manage student participants and collect student assessment data.

Breaking through the limitations of conventional 2D learning resources and extending beyond virtual and augmented realities, GIGXR's holographic content places true-to-life 3D simulations in the student's local environments using the Microsoft HoloLens 2 communicating with widely available devices including iOS and Android phones and tablets for remote and socially distanced access. To learn more about GIGXR visit www.gigxr.com. To request a demo email [email protected].


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