3D and VR have been around for over three decades. They started as a way of simulating what would be life threatening situations in a computer-controlled environment. It gave pilots a new way of practicing flying a commercial aircraft, what we call in today’s world “Immersive training”. This concept was carried into other fields in the 80s and 90s such as health and safety, medical, and architecture as a result of improved computing power. In parallel, the video games industry has developed as an independent stream where the sheer amount of revenue has made it 100% self-sufficient and a hotbed of R&D.

This observation is not limited to simulators and VR. We can see many areas where the need to apply logic, reason and security dictates the development stream of a software product. We tend to focus on these points and lose sight of the end user experience. This is where creativity lacks many companies who work with the medical, financial, and health and safety fields, the need to keep an internal organization makes it difficult for people with a game development background to join forces.

On the left we can see one such example, using Unreal Engine for a dental clinic where we show patients how the intervention will look once finalized.