Health Care & Medical
Disaster Experience and Medical Practice VR Solution

summary
Disaster and Medical Experience VR is a realistic VR experience tool used for disaster experiences such as earthquakes, fires, and landslides, as well as for medical education such as pharmacist training, infectious disease control, and diabetes experiences. Developed under the supervision of experts, it contributes to disaster prevention and medical education at local governments, companies, and educational institutions.
Technical Strengths
High-quality 3DCG and proprietary technologies reduce VR sickness and provide a realistic immersive experience and high learning effect. In addition to disaster prevention, the company provides solutions to promote behavioral change in the medical field, including the development of diabetes experience, infectious disease countermeasures, triage, and evacuation center operation VR. Winner of the Resilience Award 2024 Excellence Prize from the National Land Toughening Plan.
Case Studies (Including Demonstration Results)
- Municipalities served
- Okayama City Fire Department, Okayama University Hospital, Hamamatsu City Emergency Management Director, etc.
- Case Studies
- Introduced Disaster Experience VR to Okayama City Fire Department. Provided VR for pharmacist training and diabetes experience to Okayama University Hospital. Provided disaster prevention VR contents to the Hamamatsu City Crisis Management Directorate.
- scale of implementation
- More than 14,000 people have experienced the disaster experience VR to date. At Okayama University Hospital, VR training has been provided to more than 100 pharmacists and other healthcare professionals.
- Time to delivery
- Disaster prevention, medical VR related rental and lease / 1 day
Contracted VR application development / 10-120 days - Price (if paid)
- VR contents rental: 34,000 yen/day
Contracted development: 500,000 yen and up (individual estimate) - Other Case Studies
- It has been used in the development of VR for experiencing flood damage with the Disaster Prevention Research Institute of Kyoto University, and in disaster prevention training in many municipalities, fire departments, police departments, medical, healthcare, and educational institutions, including Kochi, Ehime, and Nagasaki Prefectures. By collaborating with local governments and providing content that recreates disasters unique to the region, the company is raising residents' awareness of disaster prevention and encouraging concrete changes in behavior.
How to use in peacetime
In peacetime, in addition to its use in BCP training for companies and disaster prevention events for local government residents, it is also effective in human resource education and awareness-raising activities at medical institutions. For example, the Disaster Experience VR is used for disaster prevention education in peacetime, and the Diabetes Experience VR is used for health education for patients and guidance for medical professionals.
Snowlion.Inc
- Location:
- 214, Okayama Univ. Incubator, 1-1-1 Tsushima-naka, Kita-ku, Okayama City
- Website:
- https://www.snowlion.co.jp/
- Year of establishment:
- August 2013
- Contact:
- Yoshiyuki Haruna ([email protected])
