Immersive delivery
Practical simulation, laddered by fidelity and mapped to criteria.
Deploy the cheapest tier that moves the criterion; escalate only on evidence. Every tier emits the same telemetry into the same portfolio of evidence, so the record spine never knows which renderer ran.
| Tier | What it is | Hardware | Where it earns its keep |
|---|---|---|---|
| L0 | 2D and 360° interactive scenarios | Any phone or desktop | Universal reach — hazard perception, decision scenarios, procedure walkthroughs |
| L1 | Headset procedural simulation in the browser | Headset, controllers or hand tracking; optionally tracked mock tools | Pre-operational inspections, isolation sequences, setup procedures |
| L2 | Simulation with control rigs | Wheel, pedals and shifter on a rigid cockpit frame | Vehicle control fidelity, manoeuvring, defensive-driving scenario banks |
| L3 | Native runtime with motion and haptics | Motion platform, haptic vest or gloves, environmental effects | Vestibular cues; scenarios unsafe to rehearse for real. Flagship labs only. |
| L4 | Third-party professional simulator integrated as a telemetry emitter | Specialist devices you may already own | Psychomotor domains with a decade of physics behind them — welding, professional driving. We integrate these; we do not pretend to rebuild them. |
The regulatory boundary, stated deliberately
Simulation generates formative and practical-readiness evidence with assessor sign-off. It does not substitute for statutory workplace-experience hours. It does not replace mentor-signed logbooks, K53 testing or Professional Driving Permits, trade tests at accredited centres, or the External Integrated Summative Assessment. Those are physical, state-administered or centre-administered processes and they stay that way.
We repeat this on purpose. A vendor claiming otherwise should be disqualified from your process.
What simulation does do is compress time-to-competence, de-risk dangerous practice, cut consumable and vehicle cost, and produce objective readiness telemetry that no paper process can. That is the case, and it is sufficient.
The vertical library
- Virtual driving — hazard perception with reaction-latency scoring; full pre-trip inspection walk-arounds; cab simulation with fault injection; cross-border route scenarios parameterised by Uhambo Atlas country and corridor risk intelligence.
- Welding — the cognitive layer nobody serves well: machine setup and polarity, consumable selection, joint identification, hot-work permitting, defect recognition; tracked torch mock-ups scored against expert-recorded reference paths.
- Forklift and materials handling — pre-operational inspection, load-chart decisions, rig-based manoeuvring in captured warehouses with pedestrian-incursion fault injection.
- Freight handling and warehouse safety — manual-handling technique with pose scoring, dangerous-goods segregation, racking-damage identification walks, dock safety sequences.
- Contact-centre operations — AI-driven customer personas with live speech, scored on empathy markers, script adherence, verification discipline and resolution accuracy. Highest volume, lowest capital cost in the library.
- Insurance claims assessment — real damaged sites captured into walkable assessment scenarios with seeded fraud indicators; the capture device is a smartphone.
- Mining and heavy-industry safety — proximity awareness around trackless mobile machinery, lockout-tagout sequences, harness inspection, emergency egress.
- Aviation ramp and ground operations — marshalling signals with gesture scoring, FOD walks, refuelling sequences, dangerous-goods acceptance decisions.
- Leadership and soft skills — presentation practice with pacing analytics; difficult conversations with adaptive counterparties; negotiation simulation.
- First response and fire — extinguisher selection and technique with a tracked mock tool, evacuation-marshal drills, first-aid primary-survey sequencing.
Mixed reality in the real workplace
Colour passthrough with plane and mesh detection turns the actual site into the training surface: travel-path and exclusion-zone overlays on the real warehouse floor, setup prompts anchored to the real machine, inspection checklists pinned to real assets with photo evidence captured straight into the portfolio. Lower content cost, higher transfer, and it degrades gracefully to phone AR. The work is real, the guidance and capture are digital, and the mentor still signs.
Safety, ethics and the equivalence rule
Comfort engineering with session caps and enforced breaks; motion-sickness screening with a 2D fallback as a right, not a concession; every scenario mapped to a criterion must ship a non-headset equivalence path, so simulation can never become a barrier to a criterion. Every physics-bearing scenario passes subject-matter-expert validation before criterion mapping, because a simulation that teaches the wrong muscle memory is worse than none.