F.I.S.T. SDK & Authoring Tool for Virtual Worlds

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For over thirteen years, Visual Purple training simulations have been made possible by Visual Purple technology. Proven processes drive the use of these proprietary and patented technologies in all of our internal production. Due to the ever evolving needs of simulation, learning, and training professionals we now license the Visual Purple F.I.S.T SDK & Authoring Tool for Virtual Worlds. Licensing these tools allows training professionals to create their own unique content, digital storyboards, scenarios, exercises, and virtual worlds. Licensees of this technology will increase the diversity and quality of training they can provide to their clients and ultimately decrease costs involved in production.


Technology Suite Solutions

Through Visual Purple’s high impact training development suite; organizations will realize a high return on investment and the ability to create an entire product line internally with only a limited amount of initial training needed to utilize F.I.S.T. Visual Purple’s Simulation Suite allows for rapid creation of high-quality experiences. These development tools provide for complex mission/scenario creation, customizable non-player characters (NPCs), intelligent NPC behavior, scriptable objects, environment-aware objects and/or actor behaviors, activity/inactivity and proximity triggers, and numerous other features. This tool set allows developers to infuse training worlds with context as well as content. Thus allowing the experience to be elegantly simple to immensely complex.


Benefits

Implementation of Visual F.I.S.T. delivers these key benefits:


Background and Description

Having produced dozens of training products for a myriad of corporate and government clients, Visual Purple’s integration of proven Adult Learning methods and compelling real-world content to provide engaging and immersive training within simulations has consistently resulted in positive behavioral change that occurs in trainees while they train, meaning that improved performance is immediate.  Repeated training sessions allow trainees to acquire a more developed sense of appropriate actions and behavior, as well as an increased understanding of the consequences resulting from their decisions.

This comprehensive simulation authoring tool suite utilizes advanced, proprietary and patented technologies that provide robust data collection and analysis. Libraries of customizable 3D environments, characters, and other assets are available.


FloCharter™

Visual Purple’s proprietary FloChart™ system is an advanced middleware application that empowers non-programmers to build complex simulations.  This concept is a cornerstone of Visual Purple’s production philosophy that calls to only leverage programmers and the F.I.S.T. SDK if unusual or custom content is required that requires core calls to the rendering engine.

From a learning and engagement perspective FloChart™ is used to create a flexible roadmap for our simulations. This roadmap allows content experts to create learning and training simulations that are highly realistic and engaging. By allowing the content experts (Instructional Designers & SMEs) to become the “programmers,” FloChart™ puts the real experts—not computer scientists—in control. FloChart™ gives these experts the tools they need to create simulations that are complex, adapt to user behavior, track users’ actions and inactions, provide mentoring and feedback, and synch with Learning Management Systems. This flexibility results in highly effective training and learning experiences, all the while honoring diverse learning styles and incorporating the magic ingredient: Story!

Technically speaking, FloChart™ is a fifth generation authoring language used for advanced modeling and design. This capability enables skilled technicians to rapidly create realistic virtual worlds. FloChart™ is a perfect tool for creating intelligent Non Playing Characters (NPCs) and authentic experiences. Using database, stochastic or neural net-like drivers to animate the simulation experience FloChart™ provides highly flexible behavioral intelligence for our simulations. The FloChart™ approach and authoring language have even been used to uncover unknown and unforeseen relationships between discretely modeled systems—a capability valued by clients looking to gain a competitive edge in either training or systems analysis.