Training isn't effective unless it seems real. In emergency scenarios, highly charged situations can draw out the weaknesses in even the strongest of medical professionals. And weaknesses aren't necessarily a bad thing, unless expressed in the wrong moment. In a new trend of training techniques, an … [Read more...]
Scenting Technology in the Use of Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy for P.T.S.D Sufferers
War is not what it used to be. That much we know. The next question begs, how we deal with the psychological ramifications of our current era of warfare? There are many different ways we, as a society, have responded. Friends and family welcome our soldiers with open arms with hope that love can … [Read more...]
Scenting Offers High Fidelity in Medical Training Simulations
Who isn’t talking about healthcare these days? Many discussions circle around the legislative attempts aimed to solve high prices and the delivery of coverage to those who are not currently covered. Politics aside, healthcare education and training has a direct effect on cost and coverage options as … [Read more...]
What Do Aromas Have To Do With CBRNE Training?
It seems like a never ending game of intellectual defeat. The more complex our society gets, the greater resources the world has access to, the more complicated the art of war becomes. So what do aromas and chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosives have in common? More than you … [Read more...]
SensoryCo assists TEEX at Disaster City for a TX-TF1 FSE in April 2012
It’s about making things more real. When SensoryCo and the Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service (TEEX) paired up at the end of April in 2012 to incorporate the scents of nitric acid and GCS (a generic WMD, gaseous-like smell), we found ourselves amongst the rubble and residuals of … [Read more...]
Two Marines Walk for the Wounded, for the Fallen and for our Liberties
Adam Shatarsky and Christopher Senopole join in arms once again, except this isn’t your normal battlefield. Each step upon the pavement is for the broken, the lost, the stranded and the wounded. Their enemies aren’t the tyrannical, corrupt governments and mercenaries that plague our globe, it’s the … [Read more...]
Boeing 787 Fires and Smoke Effects
Boeing’s battery mishaps on their 787s at the beginning of this year may have emphasized the future role of sensory stimuli such as smoke and smell in flight emergency simulators. According to an NBC article, one of the pilots noticed an “unfamiliar smell." According to an ABC account, the … [Read more...]
Scent and Smoke As Military Combat Training Effects
Live military combat training effects have come a long way since the wars of our fathers by incorporating special effects, but there will always remain one consistent theme: how to conquer chaos. Blood spatters against the wall, shrapnel slices past your ears and you hear a hissing noise … [Read more...]
Simulated ‘wounds’ prepare combat medics for real thing
Torn from a soldier's body by an improvised explosive device, the bloody, severed leg lay on the floor — a sight far too familiar for many of the Americans who have fought in wars during the past decade in Iraq and Afghanistan. But this injury didn't take place during some faraway battle; it was … [Read more...]
Soldiers test their skills walking virtual battlefields
Army Staff Sgt. Donald Kimzey looks constantly to his left and right as his partner struggles to open a gate into an Iraqi-style compound. With his M-4 carbine in hand to provide cover, Kimzey nervously checks on his partner’s progress. “You got it?” he asks, moments before spotting the … [Read more...]