Xvr Landkreis Böblingen

My name is *** Plischeck I work as a fire commander of the district Böblingen in Baden-Württemberg. XVR is used in the district Böblingen on several levels. In today’s XVR training we are having a commander training . I am the exercise leader for today and guide the students through the scenarios. We start on the lowest commanding level and consequently raise the level to Commissioning Officer. The Commissioning Officer clearly needs to be able to do more as a commander. After this, the Head Commissioning Officer level is addressed. The Head Commissioning Officers are according to the fire brigade law in Baden-Württemberg the ones who, at a large incident, are in charge in their municipality. That is why they have more complex scenarios, which we create with XVR. They begin with one hour theory lessons in the morning at eight o’clock. Then four groups are assembled. After that, trainings always take place In the groups with the Joystick. In which a trainer always assists a student. It is a one on none training. The district Böblingen is the first district in Baden-Württemberg and in the whole of Germany, that as a district with voluntary fire fighters, participates in such a project, in which the training on district level with the virtual reality of XVR has been formed. In the role of exercise leaders, we guide the students. We need to place ourselves in different roles we create in the scenarios. We act as bystanders, wounded people, we are the police, basically we are everyone, as to create a certain realistic nature. Hello, what is going on? Are you able to say something? We have the advantage that we do not have a bird’s eye view As with the so called scale model training in which I can assess the situation in an instant and see how it ends as a whole, what I need to focus on. Now, however, I have an entire 3D World and first person view available to me. Where I actually have to walk around a building. I have to go in to a house to investigate the situation. That is thought out for me, I have the most important information available to me. I think for starters, to get in to the situation, that is interesting. In how far you have to bring that further, that needs to prove itself, I think. On the face of it, it makes a good impression. I think people can apply it very well. The way the game develops is good, that pleased me. People are looking at a small screen. Things get much better on a bigger screen. I came driving from a reasonable distance. I’ve only seen a bit of a commotion. I got out of the car and walked around left and right. And luckily saw that someone was lying on top of the bridge. These are the details. From this basis you can get good indications on what you need to focus on. Where is the danger, rail track with overhead wire. That people don’t get to work immediately during the extinguishing, etc. The experience with the programme today, of course it was the first lesson, was very positive. It truly gives the possibility to imagine your inset in situations and also a possible working method to practice during the inset, what I come across during exploring, et cetera, everything is displayed clearly and also for trainings goals, very appropriate, I have to say. Everything is easy to use. The programme is easy to understand and practical for everyone. And on the other hand it is truly possible to create scenarios which are not easy to create during live trainings outside. We have few people available, live trainings cost a lot. I use a lot of personnel. I also, of course have the advantage that I’m inside. It is a nice addition. Creating realistic exercises, my approach , all the techniques I need to be familiar with, I need to make transparent, so I can offer the student an almost realistic situation in a simple way without having to make high costs. Has there been an improvement after the implementation of XVR? In comparison with before? And that is considerable. It is a big success, We truly, and I emphasise this, did not hear a single complaint. We have been working in this district for two years on a large scale with this software and we have already trained 300 to 400 firefighters with this application. It is not difficult to work with this software, nor is it difficult to analyse the learning content and to know what I can translate of the learning content in to the software so it is displayed properly. The software is not only applicable to tactical issues. For example, you can apply XVR to solve certain legal questions. The cooperation with E-Semble is very good and above all very helpful. It was an important criterion for us that there would be German support which would almost be available for the entire day, at least during office hours. We can always contact someone personally. During the years, a very good and personal cooperation has been established. And that distinguishes E-Semble, in my opinion, from the many other companies. It is a very easy-going collaboration. And many issues and agreements do not have to be written, there is a lot possible. That makes the cooperation easier. That is the genius thing about the system That we see the situation one –on-one and seeing the effect of your measures in a situation one-on-one directly is not possible in the scale model training. It is not possible in a scale model or a large scale live training. That is why this computer simulation is so uniquely good.