Experience the immersive journey into the world of healthcare simulation with VRpatients – a pioneering force that's shaping the future of medical education. In this episode, we sit down with Devin and Will from VRpatients, a company redefining clinical medical education for nurses and EMS with its groundbreaking platform. Devin shares his journey from being a customer of VRPatients to becoming an integral part of the team, highlighting how his previous work experiences shaped this transition.

Discover the essence of VRpatients – a platform that brings programmable mannequins to life in virtual reality. VRpatients enables clinical educators to effortlessly design, deploy, and evaluate a variety of patient scenarios. As Devin shares his own experiences with VR, we explore the excitement surrounding new innovative solutions and the meticulous preparation required to set VR up for success.

Learn about the “hands on” approach that VRpatients takes with schools and all the intricacies and challenges to making VR work seamlessly. We uncover captivating insights from their pioneering work in VR and the challenges they've encountered while scaling their transformative platform.

Devin's deeply personal connection to VRpatients adds a poignant touch to our conversation. We also delve into intriguing discussions, such as the Apple Vision Pro talk, hinting at the future of VRpatients and the evolving landscape of medical education.

Timestamps:

• How Devin started out/past work experience into how he got to VRpatients (00:54)
• Started as customer of VRpatients into working there (04:10)
• What is VRpatients (05:27)
• Will’s experience in VR (07:28)
• Typical prep before getting hands on experience/what's exciting about immersive solutions (10:40)
• How do you address making VR work (VRpatients’ process) (14:01)
• Scale/scope of current customer base (18:01)
• A-ha moment (20:06)
• Process of selling to leadership/his role in that (22:58)
• Use case, marketplace to be released in future (24:16)
• Challenges trying to scale (26:26)
• Personal “why” for Devin and ArborXR (29:13)
• Apple Vision Pro talk + wrap (33:52)

About Devin Marble:

Devin holds an undergraduate degree in Health Sciences from Northern Arizona University and has been a certified emergency hospital paramedic for 8 years. He also serves as adjunct faculty at the Public Safety and Emergency Services Institute in Southern Arizona and is an experienced clinical genetic research assistant for the University of Arizona’s NIH Precision Medicine Initiative. In addition to his healthcare expertise, Devin is a credentialed VR educator through Georgian College, serves as the Head of Marketing for VRpatients, and is the owner of the not-for-profit Immersive Medical YouTube Channel and podcast. Prior to his career in healthcare and education, Devin spent 10 years as an accredited Producer and television host in Los Angeles. His unique combination of technical skills in media production, public speaking abilities and passion for healthcare allows him to effectively convey the value of immersive technologies in nursing simulation.

About VRpatients:

The VRpatients platform is an asynchronous and remotely accessible clinical simulation tool that reaches beyond the classroom deploying real life scenarios to 10 or 10,000 students simultaneously anywhere in the world. Our unique partnership with ArborXR empowers educators by simplifying IT device management, while VRpatients handles the software toolkit for crafting dynamic simulations. With VRpatients, instructors can engage students outside the classroom with an interactive, dynamic training environment focused on clinical decision making. Students can practice formative virtual simulations from anywhere, perform summative evaluations at the sim center, debrief in-person with trackable analytics, and translate their virtual experiences into actual clinical skills. VRpatients, real life training without real life consequences. Learn more aobut VRpatients at https://vrpatients.com/

About ArborXR:

ArborXR helps organizations confidently manage VR & AR devices at scale, remotely install content, and control what users can see and do in the headset. Our mission is to help people live more meaningful lives through the power of XR. Learn more at https://arborxr.com.

Links & Resources:

• Check out the Immersive Medical podcast on YouTube, Apple, and Spotify: https://www.youtube.com/@ImmersiveMedical
• Connect with Devin on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/devinmarble/
• Connect with Brad on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brad-scoggin/
• Connect with Will on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/willstackable/