quarterly Briefing: Q1 2024
Western Australia Police using Operator XR to train their whole force of 6500 sworn officers.
Welcome to Operator XR’s first update for 2024. Our mission is to improve the safety of our communities and those who protect us. We are doing this by creating the world’s most immersive, portable and secure tactical training systems, enabling more agencies to train more scenarios, more often.
In this update:
New product enhancements
Customer spotlight
New team
Meet us at Shot Show
New partners
Product Enhancements
Our product and engineering team has been working hard over the last few months to bring a number of new features to the platform.
Scenario Sketch Tool: Craft bespoke scenarios from the ground up with precision. Design intricate floor plans, turn blueprints into VR scenarios, position adversaries, civilians, and forensic details to simulate authentic crime scenes or Direct Action (DA) operations. Design endless Systematic Venue Clearance and Close Quarters Battle (CQB) training scenarios, tailored to the unique demands of your team.
Check it out for yourself and watch a new scenario get created in minutes in the video below.
Interactive Role Player Module: This feature allows the instructor to wear a VR headset and take on the avatar of a suspect or hostage. This module allows for real-time weapon and object placement, communication via VOIP, and the drawing of a wide array of weapons. This is pivotal for sharpening de-escalation techniques and refining hostage rescue protocols. The Role Player module compliments the existing scenario branching options allowing for more dynamic conversations and outcomes.
Suspect VOIP: In addition to full roll play of the suspect, instructors can choose to use pre recorded actions of the suspect, with their own voice using VOIP to the trainees. All VOIP is recorded in the AAR for debriefing.
Expansive Active Shooter Environment: Over 10,000 square feet of meticulously designed urban environment dedicated to preparing agencies for active shooter situations, encompassing tactical movement, panicked crowd reactions, hostage scenarios, systematic search strategies, and comprehensive room clearance drills.
Eye Tracking Integration: During scenarios and in the after action review, instructors can observe where trainees are looking in real-time and analyze gaze through heat maps. This feature is essential for evaluating situational awareness and decision-making focus.
Advanced Analytics Dashboard: Receive detailed feedback on critical performance metrics such as shot accuracy, weapon handling, tactical readiness, and engagement speed, all integrated into our analytics platform.
12-User Tactical System: We are proud to announce the successful scaling of our Tactical Trainer for 12 users simultaneously, marking a significant upgrade in collective training capacity. The system has shown impressive stability and we are poised to expand the capacity further this year.
Customer Spotlight
Garfield County Sheriff's Office, CO
Celebrating six months since initial deployment, Garfield County has embraced Operator XR technology - having recently conducted department wide training. Running over 2 days, the 60 staff ran the system for 16 hours, with participants conducting de-escalation and movement training in a wide variety of Virtual Scenarios.
Garfield County officers during initial system training at a local county gymnasium.
The program, led by County Officers Josh Osborne and Brian Sutton, was met with an overwhelmingly positive response. Participants were blown away by the system and the scenarios that they were exposed to. Even participants whom expressed initial concerns with VR causing nausea took the leap and found they experienced no symptoms at all. Other positive feedback included the highly realistic detail of Garfield uniforms and patrol vehicles, and just how immersive the overall experience was.
Josh from Garfield (L) with new Operator team member Kevin (R) during the CO Sherriff’s conferernce.
Also, a big thank you to Josh and Brian whom supported the Operator XR vendor stand at the Colorado Sheriffs Winter Conference, In Loveland 15-19 Jan 24. They provided their firsthand experiences to fellow Colorado Sheriffs, on their experiences to date and continue to provide suggestions and feedback on ways the platform can be used.
New US Sales and Operations Team
We extend a warm welcome to Curry, Mike, Rob and Kevin - our newly formed U.S. sales team. Their extensive backgrounds as former police officers and VR training expertise, honed at Inveris and Survivr, are invaluable to our mission. The team covers the entire US and are seeing customers and interested agencies weekly, so get in touch if you’d like to review the system.
A special introduction to Simon, our new U.S. Operations Manager based at Operator’s US HQ in Alexandria, VA. With his distinguished background as an Australian Special Air Service Regiment (SASR) operator and his expertise in U.S. military liaison roles, Simon is set to steer our operations to new heights.
The Operator XR USA team at IACP 2023 including our new team members Curry, Rob, Mike and Simon.
Meet us at Shot Show 2024
Join us at Shot Show 2024, Jan 23-26, Booth #40348, to experience our cutting-edge solutions firsthand. Our display will feature hands on demonstrations on our systems including both the LE and Tactical Systems.
To explore how Operator XR can transform your training paradigm, we invite you to initiate a dialogue with us. As the event will be busy, guarantee your demo time by booking a meeting in advance.