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Excited to share an update on smokeSCREEN VR with a guest post on the website of the play4REAL Lab!
smokeSCREEN VR Update With play4REAL Lab
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Teaching Calculus with a Game
Teaching Calculus with a Game
Do you think learning calculus can only be tedious? Take a look at the gameplay video of Cartes – and think again!
[Press Release] PreviewLabs, Inc. to Prototype Oculus-Funded Virtual Reality Vaping Intervention Game for Yale play4REAL
[Press Release] PreviewLabs, Inc. to Prototype Oculus-Funded Virtual Reality Vaping Intervention Game for Yale play4REAL
PreviewLabs, Inc., has been chosen by Yale’s Center for Health & Learning Games new play4REAL lab to prototype a serious virtual reality game for teens relying on behavior change theory and funded by Facebook-owned Oculus.
smokeSCREEN VR: A Serious Game Project with Yale and Oculus
smokeSCREEN VR: A Serious Game Project with Yale and Oculus
We’re working with Yale’s play4REAL lab on the Oculus-funded smokeSCREEN VR–a research simulation of real-life social pressures teens experience around e-cigarettes and vaping.
7 Different Game Prototypes for Health Research
7 Different Game Prototypes for Health Research
PreviewLabs frequently provides rapid game prototyping for health research. Here are seven of our projects in this field…
Working Smart and Safe with Virtual Reality Forklift Training
Working Smart and Safe with Virtual Reality Forklift Training
We developed a prototype of a forklift operator simulation for Human Condition Safety in New York that allows trainees to experience the behind-the-wheel hazards, as well as the complexity of shifting a load. Check it out!
Mirror Therapy, Reinvented: PreviewLabs at De Krook
Mirror Therapy, Reinvented: PreviewLabs at De Krook
The Shapes and Rhythm prototype, part of the wE-Move research project, unveiled on our blog for the first time. The premise: mirror therapy as a VR game.
How Strategy Games Can Help Company Leaders
How Strategy Games Can Help Company Leaders
At the request of a client, we were challenged to create a prototype to make the work of business managers more engaging. As it turns out, the key to solving this particular problem lies in the grand strategy game genre…
How Video Games Can Build Students’ Test Confidence
How Video Games Can Build Students’ Test Confidence
As much as we love building prototypes for game developers, there’s something special about helping out passionate professionals that have no ties to the games industry at all. Read on for a detailled breakdown on how we helped come alive one man’s vision to aid children build test confidence.
Making Child Rehabilitation More Fun With Oculus Rift
Making Child Rehabilitation More Fun With Oculus Rift
PreviewLabs has always shown interest in virtual reality headsets, so when we got the chance to use the Oculus Rift in a research project to make child rehabilitation less demanding, we didn’t have to think twice to jump on board.
Yale Research Uses Game Prototype to Measure Anxiety
Yale Research Uses Game Prototype to Measure Anxiety
Researchers of Yale University have recently published their results of a study about anxiety and we’re very happy to announce they reached a potentially groundbreaking conclusion using a motion controlled game prototype developed by PreviewLabs.
Surgical Simulation Prototype for SkySurgery
Surgical Simulation Prototype for SkySurgery
Make no mistake about it: surgery isn’t as straightforward as those television series make it out to be. To support the training of aspiring surgeons who operate using robotic equipment, we were asked to develop a prototype to accurately simulate surgery. Here’s how we dealt with this unique challenge.
University Projects
University Projects
Game developers aren’t the only group of people in need of prototypes, we lend our services to academic researchers as well. Behind the jump we’re elaborating on three wildly fascinating science projects we’ve been working on in the past two years.
Serious and Applied Games
Serious and Applied Games
As there aren’t a lot of prototyping companies around, we often get invited to speak at conferences and events. Next to spreading the word about the importance of rapid game prototyping, we also try to stress that not all prototypes have to be fun and games.
PreviewLabs Covered in Belgian Press
PreviewLabs Covered in Belgian Press
Since we don’t make our own commercial products, we never get covered by the specialist games press. So we were very delighted when De Tijd, the biggest financial newspaper in Belgium, interviewed us for a lengthy story about our games lab.