On stage at #LavalVirtual. Guillaume presented Digital Twin technologies for Disaster Risk Reduction through SimexBuilder. Thank you to everyone who engaged afterwards!
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Guillaume is presenting at #LavalVirtual today - learnings on human decision-making inside digital twins, built on our teams' participation in @cortex2.bsky.social and our work on the @simexbuilder.com.
XR Ireland is the first Irish SME in the Virtual Worlds Association. Through this membership, we are bringing two platforms into the European ecosystem:
Belfast demo motivation: fixing coordination training. #JESIP data (Joint Emergency Services Interoperability Principles): - 33% of police commanders NEVER exercised jointly - Only 8% train jointly every few months Yet they are expected to coordinate seamlessly during major incidents.
The #Technology in a #SimulationPlatform is the least interesting part. The interesting part is what happens between people. #Emergency #response failures are almost never caused by lack of equipment. What breaks down is the coordination between the agencies operating that equipment.
5 things we showed at the Belfast engineering demo. No slide decks. No-code exercise authoring. Semantic foundation built on Digital Twin metamodels. Local generative AI for context-aware interactions. Multi-deployment architecture: cloud, on-premise, offline edge. Interoperability by design.
XR Ireland is the first Irish SME in the Virtual Worlds Association. Through this membership, we are bringing two platforms into the European ecosystem:
We made a deliberate decision: >90% of SimexBuilder's v0.1 technology stack would be European owned. Emergency simulation data is sensitive. Participant performance records. Organisational vulnerability assessments. Scenario details describing weaknesses in infrastructure and response protocols.
Most corporate organisations keep emergency training exercises in a tabletop format: sitting in a conference room talking about what they would do. Then face the reality of staff freezing when it actually happens.
Belfast has something most European cities are still trying to build. Most people outside Northern Ireland do not know about it. The Digital Catapult Digital Twin Centre is not a co-working space with a fancy name. It is a facility where digital twin technology meets industrial application.
For 18 months, #SimexBuilder only existed in specifications and disconnected prototypes. Architecture diagrams. Interface definitions. A metamodel built on digital twin semantic modelling, the same language used in industrial IoT, applied to emergency training scenarios. Not a weekend hack.
Virtual reality turns cultural education into an experience, not a lecture. Results confirm it boosts learning efficiency. #VirtualReality #ImmersiveLearning #DigitalCulture #UserExperience #XRTech #XRIreland
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Real-time machine translation opens culture to everyone. Results show it’s a valuable tool for multilingual experiences. #AI #XRTech #ImmersiveTech #DigitalCulture #UserExperience #XRIreland
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AR translation suits museum contexts perfectly, bridging language and culture. #AugmentedReality #XRTech #ImmersiveTech #DigitalCulture #UserExperience #XRIreland
Augmented reality adds a new layer to museum visits. AR translation makes experiences more positive and engaging #AR #XRTech #ImmersiveTech #DigitalCulture #UserExperience #XRIreland #Data
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Looking to maximise visitor flow while minimising friction this end-of-year season? XR Ireland provides multilingual #AR guides on visitors’ devices, helping people explore independently and at their own pace. Create a smoother visitor journey: https://dub.sh/Ihk7cH9 #Experience #AR #XR #Museums
Accessibility challenges limit access to culture. XR Ireland provides solutions for accessible experiences that maximise inclusion and minimise barriers this Christmas season. Create a more inclusive visitor experience: https://dub.sh/qjzbJ6V #Accessibility #InclusiveDesign #XR #AR
🚨 December is here, but natural disasters don’t go on holiday. XR Ireland works on a scalable, outcome-driven simulation exercise builder to help teams start small, grow smart, and achieve measurable impact. Plan your next TTX or SimEx: https://dub.sh/mXwcpaQ #EmergencyPreparedness #XR #AR
Museums benefit from VR as an effective way to explore exhibits and cultural content. #VirtualReality #XRTech #ImmersiveTech #DigitalCulture #UserExperience #XRIreland
✨ Every December, audiences want more magic but schedules are tight, staff limited, and expectations growing. XR Ireland helps disseminate immersive, self-guided stories that delight visitors while reducing staff pressure. Let’s build your holiday programme: https://dub.sh/et8Lrth
Immersive tech is no longer “experimental”. It’s a strategic asset for culture, learning and tourism. We help organisations build XR experiences that deliver impact you can measure. 🔗 https://dub.sh/IJQ1W8q
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